Spencer was on the record Friday opening defying the President. He is not the good guy here.
That is an auto fail move right there. You don't have to like the order, you don't get to challenge it in the media.
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said on Friday a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers weighing whether to oust him from the elite force, despite President Donald Trump's assertion that he not be expelled.
[Spencer was on the record Friday opening defying the President. He is not the good guy here.
That is an auto fail move right there. You don’t have to like the order, you don’t get to challenge it in the media.]
Spencer and Esper were both talking out of both sides of their mouths. I think Trump decided he wasn’t gonna fire them both, and chose Spencer because he felt Esper was more useful. Spencer’s resignation letter suggests that he wasn’t just parroting Esper’s line. I’m really amazed that it has come to this. When the My Lai verdict was handed out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley
[Many in the United States were outraged by what they perceived to be an overly harsh sentence for Calley. Georgia’s Governor, Jimmy Carter, future President of the United States, instituted American Fighting Man’s Day, and asked Georgians to drive for a week with their lights on.[23] Indiana’s Governor Edgar Whitcomb asked that all state flags be flown at half-staff for Calley, and the governors of Utah and Mississippi also publicly disagreed with the verdict.[23] The legislatures of Arkansas, Kansas, Texas, New Jersey, and South Carolina requested clemency for Calley.[23] Alabama’s governor, George Wallace, visited Calley in the stockade and requested that President Richard Nixon pardon him. After the conviction, the White House received over 5,000 telegrams; the ratio was 100 to 1 in favor of leniency.[24] In a telephone survey of the U.S. public, 79 percent disagreed with the verdict, 81 percent believed that the life sentence Calley had received was too stern, and 69 percent believed Calley had been made a scapegoat.[24]]