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Andrea Gallagher said she's enjoyed having her husband home -- as she maintains should have been the case all along.

\"He's confident. My husband has always maintained his innocence from the beginning; he has been confident,\" she said. \"He's wanted to go to trial. We have waited so long for this opportunity.\"

Gallagher was reportedly considered for a pardon by Trump in May, a request his wife said did not come at her request, saying she didn't \"really have too much thought on the pardon issue.\"

\"In regard to the pardon, no one was ever asking for a pardon,\" she told \"GMA.\" \"We were asking for fairness in this process and that's what we have been crying out this whole time.\"

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PHOTO: Andrea Gallagher, the wife of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, speaks to ABC News about her husband's trial on Saturday, June 22, 2019.
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She did leave the door open for more presidential intervention in the future, though.

\"What we're seeing right now is just playing out what we've always known, which is my husband will be vindicated at face value,\" Andrea Gallagher said. \"But we're thankful for the president's intervention and if something were to go south, but we're not anticipating that.\"

Gallagher's charges was triggered by an interview conducted by Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) Special Agent Joseph Warpinski in April 2018 with a fellow soldier, Craig Miller, after he allegedly saw Gallagher stab the ISIS prisoner. He testified on Wednesday and repeated that claim, also admitting they posed for a photo with the body.

Andrea Gallagher lashed out at the prosecution and said they should be ashamed for arresting her husband -- a decorated combat veteran who spent 19 years in the Navy -- while he was being treated at Camp Pendleton on Sept. 11, 2018.

\"The [Uniform Code of Military Justice] UCMJ is really struggling in this matter, and also the fact that the NCIS investigator lead agent, Joe Warpinski -- we will really get a chance to deem all of the things he did as completely vile and corrupt,\" Andrea Gallagher told ABC News. \"We believe that this case never would have gotten to this point if a real investigation had been done. The fairness aspect is what we'd always been going for.\"

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PHOTO: Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher walks with his wife, Andrea Gallagher, left, as they arrive on Naval Base San Diego, June 20, 2019.
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\"I say to you that this case, as unique as it seems, it's not. It's not the first time that this has been done to one of our war fighters,\" Gallagher's lawyer, Tim Parlatore, said. \"There are several prior cases that this has happened to. The difference here is two things. One, they arrested a Navy SEAL, which builds media attention just by the name recognition. And two, they arrested Andrea Gallagher's husband. This is not something that anybody expected for a family to come out and shine the light the way they have.\"

Gallagher had been transitioning to a role out of combat when he was arrested.

\"The thought of Eddie in jail, unjustly,\" his brother, Sean Gallagher, told \"GMA,\" trailing off. \"There are two motivating factors in this: love and truth. We love our brother, we love our husband, we love our dad, we love our son. And then, the fear of this travesty of justice perpetuating beyond what it already has. It's gone on for too long.\"

In addition to the charge of murder, Gallagher is accused of firing on civilians in Iraq. Three government witnesses testified to that fact during the first week of trial.

\"My husband stayed on target the whole time,\" Andrea Gallagher said. \"He is an aggressive operator. He is an aggressive leader. And I don't think that he's ever apologized for that.\"

ABC News' Frank Elaridi contributed to this report.

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