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Posted on 11/21/2019 7:32:46 AM PST by jazusamo
The attorney for Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher said on "Fox & Friends" Thursday that the Navy is trying to humiliate his client by potentially taking away his SEAL Trident, as President Trump reaffirmed his support for the embattled soldier.
"This is an action that they could have taken at any time from July right after the verdict, until today," his lawyer Tim Parlatore said. "President Trump takes action on a Friday afternoon — Monday morning, the admiral [Adm. Collin Green] comes in and brings everybody together and says 'I disagree with the president, we're going to take his Trident.'"
"This is a procedure that's in place for people that are going to be continuing on in the Navy -- to actually remove them from the SEAL teams and say OK, you've committed major safety violations," he said. "You can't be a SEAL anymore. We're going to send you out to a ship... The instruction even says this is not the proper procedure for somebody that's getting out of the Navy entirely or should be pushed out of the Navy entirely," the lawyer added.
"So what he's doing here is really just an effort to try and publicly humiliate Chief Gallagher and stick it right in the president's eye."
Shortly after Parlatore's comments, Trump reaffirmed his support for Gallagher on Twitter and declared that he will not lose his Trident.
"The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher’s Trident Pin. This case was handled very badly from the beginning. Get back to business!" he wrote.
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LOVE THIS PRESIDENT MORE EVERYDAY!!!!!!!!
All our domestic enemies are inspired to do all they can against America.
Excellent.
Thanks Mr. President.
The Commander in Chief.
I can see this admiral trying it anyway. When that happens to admiral should be giver a poor efficiency report and retired as a captain.
Excellent!! Now POTUS should have the Admiral keel-hauled as a message to anyone else under the executive branch/military who thinks they can run their own agenda.
YYEEESSSS!!!!. I bet there are more Enlisted men that agree with Trump, than with Green/Obama. If Green opens his piehole one more time, he should get re ass signed somewhere that only penguins would be his audience.
Now that is a CIC. Obama’s Rear Admiral is obama’s rear admiral if you get my meaning.
Exactly what many of us were sayin' yesterday about the Admiral's obvious action.
He is the greatest.
So proud of Trump, he stands up for the soldiers and not for the armchair admirals!
Has Shifty added this to his Impeachable Offense List yet?
I agree, it’s evident this move is more about President Trump than Eddie Gallagher by Green.
A few Admirals need to be reduced in rank to Seaman Recruit and given paint brushes and chipping hammers. These posers are breaking their oaths. They are duty and oath bound to obey the orders of Donald Trump as President of the United States.
“I, (state name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (So help me God).”
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No - given a poor report? Not enough. He should be assigned to be captain of a garbage score.
Reminds me of how the Germans viewed the action to take Patton out of the war, because he slapped a soldier.
IOWs our enemies, probably laugh all the time when they hear about our “rules of engagement.”
I doubt every seriously, that the Iranian Guards or even the Russians....throw in even the Israeli Army, are not going to second guess it’s soldiers when they’re thrust into the arena of war.
How many times have we heard of one of our guys killed when “a friendly” turns on them?
Time for some senior officers to be retired.
Adm Green is not real smart. He appears to forget who is his boss. What an ego.
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