His crew can love his leadership. That doesn’t mean he didn’t screw up badly in other ways not related to his running of the ship.
Anything that can be twisted into an attack on Trump...
I was a mere department head. Had I written a letter like that Rickover would not have had to fire me because my CO would have, hoping to keep Rickover from firing my CO for having let such an incompetent officer hold a position of trust and responsibility.
He put the lives of his crew first.