“…[former Acting Navy secretary Thomas] Modly said he fired [former USS Theodore Roosevelt Captain Brett] Crozier [without an investigation] so as not to get into a situation where Trump would think that he needed to intervene.”
“Modly said he was aware that his predecessor [Richard Spencer] lost his job because the Navy “got crossways with the president,” and “I didn’t want that to happen again.”
For context, Spencer was fired in November 2019 by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper after Spencer tried to encourage Trump to not interfere in military justice proceedings against disgraced and convicted Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.
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