Daniel Penny Invited to Army-Navy Game by JD Vance

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Daniel Penny** has been invited to attend this weekend's Army-Navy football game as the personal guest of Vice President-elect JD Vance. Penny, a Marine Corps veteran, was acquitted of homicide charges earlier this week in the death of Jordan Neely. This will be his first public appearance since the acquittal. The invitation comes after Penny maintained in a sit-down interview that he feared for his own safety and that of other passengers during the incident. Vance was vocal in his support of Penny and described the prosecution as a 'scandal'.

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