COMING UP ON @CBSThisMorning: Ousted Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer defends his handling of the Navy SEAL case to @CBSDavidMartin in an exclusive @CBSNews interview.— CBS News (@CBSNews) November 26, 2019
"What message does that send to the troops?" https://t.co/SegmMbWmQG pic.twitter.com/pNXCpdskzZ
Daily Mail: 'Trump doesn't understand the definition of a warfighter': Fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer slams President's intervention in the Eddie Gallagher case and says it undermines 'the backbone of our military'
* Richard Spencer hit out at Trump as he left The Pentagon after being sacked
* He said the president 'doesn't really understand the definition of a warfighter' after he intervened to stop Eddie Gallagher's Trident review board
* Review could have stripped Gallagher of Trident Pin and honor of being a SEAL
* Spencer said the intervention undermines 'good order and discipline' which is 'the backbone of our military'
Fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has hit out at Donald Trump's decision to intervene in the Eddie Gallagher case, saying the president 'doesn't really understand the full definition of a warfighter.'
Spencer, speaking to CBS News as he left The Pentagon on Monday after being sacked, said the president's intervention sends a message to the troops that 'you can get away with things'.
The 65-year-old, himself a Marine veteran, was particularly incensed at Trump's decision to effectively overrule the peer review process, whereby a panel of Navy SEALs would have decided whether Gallagher was fit to keep his Trident Pin.
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WNU Editor: This warfighter has a different point of view .... Navy SEAL Robert O'Neill, who shot and killed Osama bin Laden, backs Donald Trump's decision to restore Eddie Gallagher's rank and slams 'whiny' Pentagon officials who criticized the president for intervening (Daily Mail).
Update: The above CBS tweet is very revealing. Once you are fired you cannot give an interview in the Pentagon, and you lose your limo service (i.e. that is Richard Spencer's wife picking him up at the Pentagon on his last day on the job).
2 comments:
Fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, talking about being a warfighter? What does his resume say about him?
He was a marine for 4 years.
"After leaving the Marines as a captain, he worked on Wall Street for 15 years, holding positions at Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, A. G. Becker, Paine Webber and Merrill Lynch."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_V._Spencer
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In fighting makes for a good show.
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