Mark Esper said Trump’s verbal order was why Esper announced Sunday that Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher would retire with his trident pin.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that President Trump gave him a direct order to allow a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes to retire without losing his SEAL status.
Last week Trump had tweeted that he wanted Gallagher to be allowed to retire as a SEAL, but Esper’s comments Monday revealed that Trump had given the Defense secretary a direct order to make this happen.convicted of posing with the corpse while in Iraq in 2017.In his remarks, Esper also accused Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer of secretly offering to the White House to rig the Navy disciplinary process to ensure the Gallagher not lose his trident.
In announcing Sunday that he had dismissed Spencer, Esper said he acted after learning of Spencer’s secret plan to guarantee the outcome of a Navy SEAL peer-review board that was scheduled to convene Dec. 2 with the goal of recommending whether Gallagher should be allowed to retain his trident.
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