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Fmr. Trump Official Says Gallagher Decision Shows 'Little To No Understanding' Of Military
Dec 3, 2019 11:51:32   #
rumitoid
 
A retired Marine colonel and former press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Sunday for meddling in the military’s chain of command “in an unprecedented way” by reinstating the rank of a Navy SEAL who was convicted of a war crime.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” former Col. David Lapan told co-host Martha Raddatz that Trump showed “very little to no understanding of the military that he professes to love” when he defied senior military personnel and reinstated Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher last month. Lapan served as DHS secretary as recently as 2017 and is currently vice president of communications at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank. His biography on the center’s website credits him with over 30 years of military service.

On Nov. 24, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was fired after trying to convince Trump not to involve himself in Gallagher’s disciplinary proceedings.

Gallagher was found guilty of posing for photographs with the corpse of a member of the so-called Islamic State. He was also accused of killing that fighter, as well as shooting at civilians and threatening to kill SEALs who reported him, but he was acquitted of those charges.

Gallagher has become a darling of the conservative movement. Trump has sent several tweets mentioning him by name, and Gallagher has made numerous appearances across right-wing media to tell his story and promote a conservative clothing line.

Lapan was joined in his “This Week” interview by retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold and Kyleanne Hunter, a former Marine Corps officer who currently works at the gun control organization Brady. Lippold supported Trump’s involvement in the Gallagher case; Hunter did not.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-doesnt-understand-military-gallagher-183823676.html

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Dec 3, 2019 13:44:53   #
waltmoreno
 
rumitoid wrote:
A retired Marine colonel and former press secretary for the Department of Homeland Security sharply criticized President Donald Trump on Sunday for meddling in the military’s chain of command “in an unprecedented way” by reinstating the rank of a Navy SEAL who was convicted of a war crime.

Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” former Col. David Lapan told co-host Martha Raddatz that Trump showed “very little to no understanding of the military that he professes to love” when he defied senior military personnel and reinstated Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher last month. Lapan served as DHS secretary as recently as 2017 and is currently vice president of communications at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank. His biography on the center’s website credits him with over 30 years of military service.

On Nov. 24, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer was fired after trying to convince Trump not to involve himself in Gallagher’s disciplinary proceedings.

Gallagher was found guilty of posing for photographs with the corpse of a member of the so-called Islamic State. He was also accused of killing that fighter, as well as shooting at civilians and threatening to kill SEALs who reported him, but he was acquitted of those charges.

Gallagher has become a darling of the conservative movement. Trump has sent several tweets mentioning him by name, and Gallagher has made numerous appearances across right-wing media to tell his story and promote a conservative clothing line.

Lapan was joined in his “This Week” interview by retired Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold and Kyleanne Hunter, a former Marine Corps officer who currently works at the gun control organization Brady. Lippold supported Trump’s involvement in the Gallagher case; Hunter did not.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-doesnt-understand-military-gallagher-183823676.html
A retired Marine colonel and former press secretar... (show quote)


What's not to understand about the Commander in Chief giving his subordinates an order which they have to follow? "Meddling?" Excuse me, Trump issuing an order is hardly "meddling". And any subordinate officer who considers an order from the Commander in Chief, as "meddling", needs to resign.

The top brass must be under the mistaken impression that because of their many years entrenched in the Deep State, they are somehow absolved and don't have to follow orders down the chain of command. But they are still in the chain of command. They're NOT at the top.

Trump stands with the guys who are on the front lines, the ones having to make split-second, life and death decisions. He's revised Obama's Rules of Engagement so that our fighting men aren't continually at a disadvantage when fighting the terrorists.
And instead of taking the side of the pencil pushing brass in Washington, Trump has thrown in with the guys in the field. Kudos to Trump.

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