Posted on 11/23/2019 4:26:37 PM PST by jazusamo
[Headline not true according to article]
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatened to resign if the Navy was not allowed to go through with an administrative review board next month to determine if Eddie Gallagher could remain a SEAL, multiple Navy officials confirmed to Fox News
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Earlier Saturday, The New York Times reported that along with Spencer, Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Commander Rear Adm. Collin Green also threatened to resign if the Navy carries out the request of President Trump to restore Gallagher’s rank to chief petty officer after he was demoted last summer. Gallagher was found not guilty of murdering an Islamic State (ISIS) fighter during a 2017 deployment to Iraq but was convicted of posing for a photo with the dead corpse.
However, officials say that The Times was inaccurate in reporting that Green threatened to resign over the Gallagher disagreement. Only Spencer -- not Green -- made such a threat, they said
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However, Spencer denied threatening to resign at a defense conference in Halifax, Canada, on Saturday, according to reporters present.
“I’m still here, I did not threaten to resign, we’re here to talk about external threats and Eddie Gallagher is not one of them,” Spencer said during a panel on the Arctic. Spencer told reporters he works at the pleasure of the president.
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However, Spencer told reporters the president has every right to intervene in military justice proceedings.
"The president of the United States is the commander in chief, he’s involved in every aspect of government and he can make decisions and do things and give orders as he deems appropriate," he said.
Spencer said that if he receives official orders -- not in the form of a tweet -- the disciplinary process against Gallagher will cease.
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I have not liked the NY Times for a long time, but they are getting to be just as fake as the the WP and CNN.
AMEN!
Absolutely. I know talking about the president with contempt, is a violation of the UGMJ. I would guess going to the media, probably is too.
All the warriors were run out by the Kenyanesian Usurper.
The only flag officers we have left are those who saluted the transgenderizing of our military.
Saw the Midway movie last night. What a Trumpian movie — better yet, a throw-back to the time when real heros and smart guys were promoted in the Navy. Not some pencil pushers like Obama put in office.
Time to clean house. And if you haven’t seen Midway yet, by all means do so. Great acting, great telling of the tale, and thrilling animation/filming.
You are correct sir. I saw LBJ a couple of times, from the outside, not the inside 😁 There was an Air Force full colonel in LBJ when I was there.
Or foreign actors stirring the pot.
We now see the military Swamp, created by Zero, needs fumigated immediately starting with Fat Vindman. Our CIC may want to reinstate the military officers Zero fired and retired.
By sundown? 😁
So true .
Perhaps, but if he plans to proceed contrary to what clearly appears a valid utterance by Trump, as the article indicates, it is not screwed on very tight.
It behooves Spencer, at a minimum, to have one of his people contact the WH for confirmation and any clarification he may need.
No doubt. Weren’t they called REMFs at one time? Maybe still are.
A tweet is not lawful and it’s not an order. You think Trump could mobilize troops with a tweet? He is correct and the orders are needed.
I suspect a major Marxist lie from the NYT here.
(Surprise, surprise.)
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Off the Wall Ping!
Fire both of the sob’s.
Let any and all resign. Then appoint real patriots
“It seems Spencer has his head screwed on straight. “
that’s my take ... all the rest appears to be a large number of dubious, anonymous rumors being presented as “news” by the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia in an attempt to stir up trouble between Commander-In-Chief Trump and his military subordinates ...
This is the rare sort of thing that drives me nuts about Trump.
There have been a few of these stories in recent years where a senior administration official was taken to task for ignoring a directive from the President on some matter or another, and the responses of the officials were always the same: "I never received any such directive from the President or anyone else on that matter."
This is the kind of juvenile sh!t that really hurts the President's credibility as a serious leader.
Saw it with 3 other old Vets. An AF, a Navy and two Dogfaces. We all highly enjoyed it. The segment where the code breaking spooks deduced that what the Japs referred to as “AF” was Midway....So when they attacked Midway, we were waiting for them. That was handled very much the same in the previous Midway movie. So it must be authentic.
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