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Fox news today: Fired Navy secretary criticizes Trump for ‘shocking’ intervention in SEAL case

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Last updated: November 28, 2019 2:31 am
Sampson Gaddah
November 28, 2019
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Fox news today: Fired Navy secretary criticizes Trump for ‘shocking’ intervention in SEAL case
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Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer spoke out Wednesday for the first time since his weekend ousting by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, calling President Trump’s intervention ahead of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s review board “shocking and unprecedented” in a Washington Post op-ed.

Spencer wrote that Trump’s action “was … a reminder that the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”

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Gallagher in July was found not guilty of murder and premeditated murder but was convicted of a lesser charge of posing for a photo with an Islamic State (ISIS) fighter’s corpse during a deployment to Iraq in 2017.

The case drew international attention and caught the eye of Trump, who Spencer claimed intervened three times throughout the military justice process — most recently when he called for Gallagher to keep his SEAL trident and be allowed to “retire peacefully.”

Spencer detailed the process of trying to convene the review board, which he said would determine three things: what rank Gallagher would retire at, if he would leave the service with an “honorable” or “other than honorable” discharge, and if he would be allowed to keep his Trident pin, an iconic symbol that identifies a member of the elite SEAL force.

“Given my desire to resolve a festering issue, I tried to find a way that would prevent the president from further involvement while trying all avenues to get Gallagher’s file in front of a peer-review board,” Spencer said. “Why? The Naval Special Warfare [NSW] community owns the Trident pin, not the secretary of the Navy, not the defense secretary, not even the president. If the review board concluded that Gallagher deserved to keep it, so be it.”

Fox news today: Richard Spencer in July 2019. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Richard Spencer in July 2019. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

In his efforts to avoid having the president intervene further, Spencer said he then began working “without personally consulting [Esper] on every step.”

“That was, I see in retrospect, a mistake for which I am solely responsible,” Spencer said.

Esper fired Spencer on Sunday and accused him of circumventing authority by engaging in direct negotiations with the White House to allow Gallagher to remain a SEAL. At the same time, Spencer was saying publicly that the Trident review board process should be allowed to play out.

NSW Commander Rear Adm. Collin Green had called for the Trident review board to decide whether Gallagher and three of his supervising officers were fit for duty. The board was set to convene as soon as next week before President Trump called for an end to investigations.

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Spencer pointed out in his op-ed that Trump’s directive came via a tweet, saying: “I recognized that the tweet revealed the president’s intent. But I did not believe it to be an official order, chiefly because every action taken by the president in the case so far had either been a verbal or written command.”

Fox news today: Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher and President Trump.

Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher and President Trump.

The axed Navy secretary said he had received two calls in March from Trump “asking me to lift Gallagher’s confinement in a Navy brig” while he was awaiting his court-martial trial.

“I pushed back twice, because the presiding judge, acting on information about the accused’s conduct, had decided that confinement was important,” he explained. “Eventually, the president ordered me to have him transferred to the equivalent of an enlisted barracks.”

“I came to believe that Trump’s interest in the case stemmed partly from the way the defendant’s lawyers and others had worked to keep it front and center in the media,” Spencer added.

Trump would later intervene a second time following the jury’s verdict, he explained.

“On Nov. 14, partly because the president had already contacted me twice, I

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