No Commentary About the Spencer/Esper/Gallagher Flap?

I've been watching it. Early on, I said, whoever is responsible for setting up this review to take Gallagher's pin and go against the President needs to be FIRED. ...because their lack of loyalty is on display.

P.S. I've felt strong enough about this injustice that I donated to Gallagher's defense fund...
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He needed to go. That is all

 

He shouldn't have gone around the Defense Secretary. His letter only sounds like a disingenuous attempt at self-justification.

He doesn't have to like the decisions the President makes, and he doesn't have to like the decisions the Defense Secretary makes. But unless he is being ordered to take an illegal action and has already objected to the order, he has no business skipping up in the chain of command. If it isn't an illegal order, then his option is to execute the order or to resign.

 

They should ask for clarification. Easy call here--ask the Defense Secretary if it is an order. If told yes, then act. If told no, then don't. If the Defense secretary says it was an order, then it becomes an order from the Defense Secretary.

 

No, he wouldn't ask Trump. But it would be a clear order from a superior (the Defense Secretary).

No matter what, this is likely a job-ending situation. But if he follows the chain of command, he can at least claim that he was following protocol.

 

I do, it was an act of defiance that showed his distaste for his Commander in Chief. He had his answer, pulling this stunt about mouthing off about tweets again demonstrated his distaste for the President and rightly sealed his fate.

Anyone and everyone involved in pushing this defiant act in any way should get the ax.

 

Sooo...you believe the only time Trump said anything about it was in a tweet?

 

Well he has lost all credibility at this point. I feel confident there is far far more to the story than that.

 

Have we considered this angle? When a scapegoat case reaches the public eye, it's bound to give the organization a black one. Once the top man signaled his support for doing the right thing, they should have cleared every step with him—that's the loop. Anything else is essentially insubordination. Of course, it would have been better had they not created a scapegoat case in the first place.

"A lot of people were upset by this result, where Eddie Gallagher is the only person that gets punished, despite the entire platoon being in the picture, including his superior officer," Tim Parlatore, one of Gallagher's attorneys, told Task & Purpose.

Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher's Family Is Asking Trump for a Presidential Pardon​

 

At first I thought Trump was right in butting in, but then again he (Gallagher) had his day in court and from that point on in regards to him keeping his "Trident" and not losing any rank maybe those things should have been left for the military to decide. He was acquitted of the most serious charges and just left with the "posing with a corpse" charge. Surely that infraction deserved some punishment?

 

Today's lesson, if you're telling the public one thing and your boss's boss another, you should probably let your boss know.

 

Trump did not fire Spencer. Esper did.

Spencer jumped the chain of command and Esper asked Trump's permission to fire him and got it.

How this turns out if Spencer doesn't get stupid is anybody's guess.

But the actual facts of the firing are very straight forward.