Posted on 11/25/2019 7:49:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Appropriately, President and Commander in Chief Trump, through his Defense Secretary, told the slow on the uptake Navy secretary, Richard V. Spencer: "You're Fired!"
It was a swift and fitting response, given that it now emerges that Spencer was sneaking around behind his boss's back and arguably "blackmailing" the president over the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
Spencer was a real problem all around in this incident. First, he slow-walked Trump's order to leave Gallagher alone first by insisting that Trump would need to issue a formal order to get him to do anything (fill out a form in triplicate?) instead of tweet his very clear sentiment, and second that he'd fix things to make both the swamp and supposedly Trump happy by forcing Gallagher to retire, but allowing him to keep his prized Trident pin. Win-win, hey? He somehow didn't bother to tell Defense Secretary Mark Esper of his offer to the White House. And all that Commander in Chief Trump could see was that this boob didn't get the tweet hint about leaving Gallagher alone.
The New York Times, newspaper of choice of the Washington Swamp, initially reported that Spencer threatened to resign if he didn't get his way on how Gallagher was to be treated since his nearly total acquittal and his pardon and restoration of rank on the minor issue he was convicted of.
Spencer then denied it, but got weird in insisting that he'd only do what Trump wanted if he issued a formal order, and he made that public, he didn't go quietly through channels, as if to humiliate Trump. If he had any brain at all, he would have paid attention to the broad sentiment being conveyed by the commander in chief instead of kvetch like a NeverTrump about tweets.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Several "Flag Officers" need to join this SOB Spencer. Make it ABUNDANTLY clear who is in charge!
Spencer must be colossally dumb if he thought he could win this game.
Those military personal who refuse to accept, and follow, presidential orders, would not tolerate the same insubordination from any under their command, or supervision. Pres Trump has so many govt prince and princesses to deal with it is a wonder he can remain focused on his MAGA job.
I’m thinking Spencer did not see that coming ; )
This low-level nobody gets his own Wiki page? Seems a bit Deep State propaganda-ish...
Winning. Noe get the women out of the subs.
What a scumbag. Maybe the Chinese have a job for this traitor Spencer.
HOORAY Chief
They're on pretty shaky ground there.
I read some where yesterday that 0 quietly chitcanned around 175 very senior and very "traditional" officers from our military during his first term.
Be pretty hard to hide that fact if someone wanted to compare the two president's actions.
If he didn’t he’s not smart enough to be SECNAV!
Fire the Admirals to Encourage the Others
Good read
He'll write a book and get hired by CNN and MSNBC as a contributor. He knew what he was doing.
Maybe the folks supporting Richard V. Spencer can be checked out and fired too...
Time to dump the deadwood.
Trump has not been served well by advisors, especially early in this presidency.
I’ve said all along I HOPE in his second term he can get people who can be trusted advising him........and get rid of anyone who was ever working at the White House under ODUNO’s administration and just hope he can find the elites/rino’s and kick them out too!!!
A flag officer does not get to choose which orders to obey and which to ignore. Disobeying a direct order from the CinC is a court marshal offense.
Thank you for the link. Rush was talking about this piece and I wanted to read it.
+1 AND skimmers and planes.
I'm thinking that other commie outfit; CNN.
As commander and chief is Trump allowed to fire people, or is that an impeachable offense?
If the Navy wants to put out the fire now that the SECNAV has been fired as a result of Admiral Green’s actions, the CNO should remove Admiral Green to allow a fresh start. Otherwise both the acting and later new SECNAV still have a mess on their hands. CNO can fix the problem by cutting Admiral Green loose.
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