Gen. Anthony Tata: Trump was right, fired Navy secretary was wrong on Eddie Gallagher case

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Gen. Anthony Tata: Trump was right, fired Navy secretary was wrong on Eddie Gallagher case
Gen. Anthony J. Tata
By Gen. Anthony J. Tata | Fox News


Fired Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s outburst at President Trump in a Washington Post op-ed published Wednesday, calling the president’s handling of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher’s case a “shocking and unprecedented intervention in a low-level review” is in and of itself shocking and unprecedented in several ways.

Spencer wrote: “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.”

In reality, Spencer is the man who bypassed the chain of command by cutting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper out of his scheming and working a backroom deal. Now, after being exposed, Spencer submissively avails himself to an eager mainstream media ready to consume his invective aimed at the president, creating the very chaos he blames on the president.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/gen-anthony-tata-trump-was-right-to-fire-navy-secretary-and-intervene-on-behalf-of-seal-eddie-gallagher.amp

[Maj. Bill Martin]

The Navy really screwed up on the Gallagher case, and it's pretty clear what happened.

Higher-ups and the lawyers involved got to close to this case.  Maybe they believed that Gallagher's acquittal on all but the most minor charge was bogus, or due to perjury by fellow SEALs seeking to protect him, etc..  But once he was acquitted of all those other charges, they had to respect that acquittal, and should have treated him accordingly.  Instead, they pretty clearly acted vindictively towards him (they didn't seek to strip to the Trident from anyone else in that photo), as a way to show that they "won" in the end even though Gallagher was acquitted of most charges.  And that's simply wrong.

Trump was right to step in and stop it.