The SEAL Who Betrayed a Brother: Dan Crenshaw’s Political Backstabbing Exposed

Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, exposes Rep. Dan Crenshaw!

Eddie has been holding on to this story for about 4 1/2 years.

Crenshaw has been working against him, behind the scenes the whole time.

The text message he reads at the end, really lets you know what kind of man, Dan… pic.twitter.com/VKlRLc4pWv

— James Pleickhardt (@JamesPleickhar2) March 18, 2025

Transcript of Eddie Gallagher’s video:

So, uh, I’ve got something to say that I’ve been holding onto for about four and a half years now. I’ve tried to deal with it internally—it’s been weighing me down for some time. I’ve tried to just let it go, just like I have with the whole nightmare that happened to me and my family, but I feel compelled to come out now and speak the truth about a certain individual.

This is not about me. I’m not trying to get into a petty little back-and-forth match with this person. This is about you, the American people, no matter what side of the aisle you sit on. This is also, and most importantly to me, about my teammates and the SEAL teams. I feel like you guys should know the truth as well.

So, back in 2019, I was charged with war crimes—premeditated murder—and I was facing life in prison without parole. I sat in pretrial confinement for about nine months before my actual trial. During that time, my wife Andrea and my brother Sean, along with a certain group of teammates I had, were doing everything they could to garner support, to get the truth out about what was going on with me, and to expose all the lies and corruption around the UCMJ and everything they were doing to put me away for.

During that time, one name kept popping up—that was Dan Crenshaw. My brother wanted to go speak to him to try and get his support, as well as my teammates, who were doing everything they could. This was for obvious reasons—Dan was a prior SEAL. They thought this was a no-brainer, that he should get behind it, especially with all the information that was coming out.

So my brother, who lives near D.C., was going to Congress almost on a daily basis, knocking on every congressman’s door on both sides of the aisle, trying to get them to look at what was really going on and get their support. One of those individuals was Dan Crenshaw.

My brother ended up talking to his staff a couple of times. They gave him the runaround, but that did not stop him. He kept going back, day after day, and finally got ahold of him. Dan told him he wanted to wait until the situation developed before he made a decision, which—got it, that makes sense.

Umm…

Along with that, some of my teammates who were on that deployment, who were on the ground the day of the incident, went to one of Crenshaw’s fundraising parties. They pulled him aside and spoke to him face-to-face. They told him what was happening to me was complete BS, that it was chock-full of lies, and that I was getting screwed over. Dan told them he’d see what he could do.

Once my brother got ahold of Dan a second time, Dan said there wasn’t enough information or whatever. My brother got pretty frustrated and ended up sending Dan a semi-scathing email, calling him out for being a politician, not being part of the Brotherhood, and not supporting a fellow SEAL. Dan replied and said he would see what he could do.

So, as my incarceration went on—late into my incarceration—50 congressmen ended up signing a petition to release me from prison so I could properly defend myself before trial. They were basically saying, “Give this man the constitutional rights he deserves before he goes to trial for his life.”

One congressman would not sign that petition. That was Dan Crenshaw.

Instead, he decided to write his own petition and pretty much say to keep me in prison but to let me see my lawyers—which were rights I should have already had in the first place. At that point, we decided to scrap asking Dan for help and just move on. No harm, no foul.

So, obviously, I went to trial, was found not guilty, and ended up retiring out of the Navy. Not long after I retired, I got invited to a Turning Point event by Nine Line. While at that event, I just happened to run into Dan Crenshaw. I saw him coming down the hallway, and I wanted to go up and talk to him—just to get his thoughts on the whole situation and why he did not support me, or why he made up his own petition saying to keep me in prison.

I was not angry. I just wanted to talk—Team Guy to Team Guy—to get his thoughts. He saw me from down the hall, immediately looked down at the ground, and speed-walked right past me. Didn’t even give me the time of day.

So, at that point, I was like, “Oh, you know, he’s a politician. I can kind of understand why he didn’t want to support me if it would hurt him in some capacity,” so I just let it go.

Not too long after that, I obviously wrote the book, and when the book came out, I went to Congress to do a book signing for the 50 congressmen who did support me—who did sign that petition to get me out of prison. While there, I was pulled aside by multiple congressmen and was told that Dan Crenshaw was actively working against me behind the scenes. He was going up to each of those congressmen who were supporting me, telling them not to support me, that I was guilty, and that it was “his community,” and they needed to “**** out and let him handle it.”

I don’t know how much more of an arrogant statement can be made than Dan saying “his community”—that’s a joke. But regardless, after hearing this, I was pretty disgusted.

It’s one thing to not support me and just back off and not do anything, but Dan—knowing full well the truth about what was really going on—still went and tried to get people not to support me and pretty much tried to put me away for life without parole.

The way I look at that is Dan was trying to kill me. He was doing this for political favor. He was doing this to climb the political ladder.

The reason I’m putting this out right now is because if Dan Crenshaw is willing to lie to gain favor with other politicians, to climb that political ladder, and pretty much throw somebody away for life—what do you think he’s doing to the American people?

This man cannot stop lying, and I’ll give you some examples.

Recently, David Goggins was on a podcast with my good friend Aaron Singerman. I listened to the podcast. I listened to him expose Dan for who he really is. After that podcast, after I listened, I DM’d David Goggins and said, “Great job on exposing Dan,” only because I know the truth about him and what he did to me.

Now, I had no communication with Goggins before this—me and him really did not know each other. But after I sent him that DM, he sent me a text message back. And after I read it, this is what really compelled me to come forward and do what I’m doing now.

I’ll read you the text.

And this is from Crenshaw to Goggins:

“Hey man, listened to your Rogan podcast. Good ***. I had no idea about any of that **** with that Team Six guy making YouTube videos about you and all that. Again, sorry if I made it seem like I was ever in that category—I am not. I wouldn’t have tried to get you to speak at my events if I didn’t respect you and your message. Like you, I’ve been in the public eye since about 2018 and understand very well how people will climb over your back to get higher, get more clicks, and get a little more. Little more. Pieces of **** like Eddie Gallagher have tried to do that at my expense after I tried helping him get out of prison. That should never happen between Team Guys. God bless and Happy New Year.”

So, this text message is chock-full of lies—which is not surprising. Dan sent this to Goggins after Dan himself was on a podcast talking trash about Goggins. And he is telling Goggins that he tried helping me get out of prison?

Again, this man can’t stop lying. He’ll say whatever it takes to get people on his side and then do the opposite behind the scenes. This has been a repeating pattern of his since he’s been in office.

Now, I also have some documents here from my brother. It’s a list in chronological order of each time he attempted to get Dan’s support. He also has emails in here too, asking for his support. I also have the petition that Dan wrote, saying to keep me in prison.

I’ll have all of these on a link below that you can click and see for yourself.

Again, the reason I’m telling you this is because this is not about me—this is about you, the American people.

So, Dan, if you want to have a conversation, I’ll be in D.C. next week, actually doing real work to support our brothers in the teams, our law enforcement, and our first responders.

If you want to have a conversation, you know where to find me, buddy.

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