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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Politics, Politics, All is Politics

"And I'm pretty sure that Beagles is still against gay marriage so he wouldn't even consider that progress.  People don't agree on what is moral and what isn't, so it depends on who you are listening to as to whether we are going forwards or backwards in that regard." - Uncle Ken
You got that right!

Like I said, I was not very familiar with the Gallagher case, so I looked it up on Wiki.  According to that, Trump did not fire Spencer, Esper fired Spencer.

Interventions by President Trump

The clemency decision ended up moot: In November 2019, Trump declared that Gallagher's demotion would be reversed.[33] The move also included several other military members accused of misconduct: in addition to Gallagher, Lieutenant Clint Lorance was ordered freed; and the prosecution of Matthew Golsteyn was ordered to be ended.[33]
The Navy ordered an administrative investigation by the Trident Review Board to determine whether Gallagher should be stripped of his Trident Pin, a symbol of membership in the SEALs. On November 21 Trump tweeted, "The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher's Trident Pin. This case was handled very badly from the beginning. Get back to business!" Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer responded that terminating this probe could only be done via an official written order from the White House. Associates said Spencer will resign if such an order is issued, believing it undercuts his authority and that of Rear Adm. Collin Green, commander of the SEALs.[34] On November 24, 2019, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he had learned that Spencer made a private offer to the White House that if the White House did not interfere, he would guarantee that Gallagher would keep his Trident pin. This offer contradicted Spencer's public position and was kept secret from Esper.[35][36] Esper immediately fired Spencer for going outside the chain of command.[37] The next day Esper said that Trump had ordered him to allow Gallagher to keep his Trident Pin, so that Gallagher remains a SEAL until his retirement at the end of November.[38] Gallagher's case was scheduled for a hearing by the Navy SEAL review board on December 2, 2019.[39]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gallagher_(Navy_SEAL)

Then there's Spencer's version of the story:

https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBXrcAS?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare


A lot of the stuff in the news is like that.  If you dig a little deeper, you discover that there is more to it than meets the eye.  If a guy wanted to, he could make a full time career out of looking stuff up and trying to decide what he thinks really happened.  I'm interested, but not that interested.


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