Following the firing of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said that President Donald Trump ordered that Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher should keep his gold Trident pin and elaborated on what led to Spencer's resignation. Aired on 11/25/19.
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Esper: Trump Gave Order For Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher To Keep Trident Pin | Hallie Jackson | MSNBC
True patriots of Justice push through the smog to get to the truth; people like Trump and he’s maligned enablers push that smog forward.
why do you side against a US Veteran ????
It wouldnt surprise me if Gallagher ended up murdering someone soon and claiming self defense.
His own seal team had to sabotage his weapon to stop him from gunning down innocent civilians.
@Mad Hatman sadly those Seals did have their tridents removed and were kicked out, while Trump claims Gallagher should keep his? I know one of the Seals who reported him and testified, he wouldn’t lie it’s not in his character.
You butthurts should go vape. Juul is now on sale.
@David miorgan so you support slaughtering women and children? Good for you lil Hitler, genocide is still despicable even if you get hard for it…
@David miorgan sounds like u do enough vaping for everyone else
As a Navy veteran I say the draft dodger can stay out of Navy business. Edit. Thanks for the replies.
Rutabagastue, you are not a veteran, you are just a fake, a phoney, a lying dog! No U.S. veteran disrespects the office of the President of the United States of America. Ever, not ever! You are just a Doomer punk.
@Ancel Rick You’re 10 years old? So considering you joined youtube in 2013 that’s quite impressive for a 4 year old. Your parents seem to be quite neglectful of their child.
@Ancel Rick – Seriously AR, I bet you are a person who is trying to understand the world, wants to provide important input, wants to be heard and respected for their opinion. If so, people are more apt to take you seriously if you provide solid, intellectual, substantive input vs. weak personal insults.
Really, I hope you find your “center”.
Ancel Rick oh so you’re not even allowed to be on YouTube’s main site great I’ll report you then problem solved +13 only but don’t worry you can be on YouTube kids
Agreed!
too bad cadet bone spurs wasnt as interested in the military when he was asked to serve as he is now……
@jeff mcgowan “for 3 years you been looking for a crime”
There have been crimes, what are you talking about? Seriously, it’s like you haven’t kept up.
-There is the obstruction of justice crime which Trump would have been prosecuted over if a sitting president could be indicted (And since the statute of limitations extends past his first term limit, he still may be).
-There is the asking a foreign government to interfere with the 2020 election, a crime that has been admitted to by his administration.
Those are the big two, there are more (Stealing from a charity, campaign finance violations, etc.). To say that Trump hasn’t committed crimes requires you to either be ignorant OR you have to be lying.
one week you people are praising the *’courage”* of deep state mole rat traitor vindman and denouncing anyone as unpatriotic for not doing the same, the very next week you are condemning an actual soldier who put it all on the line in our fight against ISIS. The shameless hypocrisy of the left is unending.
@Cristal Griddens
Boy Crystal, how stupid can you get? How is expecting respect for Vindman for serving America not the same as expecting respect for the Navy who made the decision to convict a man who committed war crimes? Where exactly do you see the shifting of opinion here?
Maybe you are just bleating something your meemaw regurgitated to you from Fox News, so I’ll give you a break
What wars did Bill Clinton and Barack Obama fight in?
Too bad the chain of command includes a toddler.
Ok Doomers
He’s actually the Toddler in Chief.
@John Smith Sorry, the American public did NOT elect Trumpty Dumbty (Donald Trump), who lost the 2016 Presidential Election by THREE MILLION VOTES.
If you had a dollar for every actual American vote in the 2016 Presidential Election that was superceded by a proxy, you would be a Multi-Millionaire.
@GreatWall OfMexico Hence, the quotes around elected in my earlier response.
Must Trump sully everything he touches?
No president, especially a draft dodging coward like Trump, should intervene in the disciplinary matters involving military personnel and the UCMJ. ( Uniform Code of Military Justice ) The military is suppose to be impartial, unbias and apolitical. Trump pardoned Gallagher as a PR stunt because he thinks he will some how personally benefit from it. His reckless meddling in the military can cause fissures within the ranks and command structure, and that would most definitely have an adverse effect on our military’s moral and operational readiness. We’ve never seen anything like this before. Personally, as a Marine veteran, this turns my stomach.
Trump is the Typhoid Mary of Presidents. Everything he comes into contact with, dies.
@Costa Keith Well I hope they wouldn’t follow an order to send someone to your house to take your life, just because the President ordered it. In this case Gallagher was only convicted of a minor war crime, he miraculously avoided the serious charges, and his punishment was to lose one rank ultimately, it does not make sense why Pres. Trump would pardon him, but it is his decision, Spencer did not agree with it, and he lost his position over it, this really should not be news to anyone.
I’m a Marine, if my commanding officer gives me an order, but the President of the United States says otherwise, I will flip my Commander off and follow the orders of the Commander in Chief! That is how the military chain of command works. Elected officials outrank military officers. If they didn’t, we would all have died long ago. TRUMP2020 MAGA2020
@Rose No one I know has questioned congress’s right to investigate the president or any other member of the government. The rules around which witnesses have to testify are a bit more complicated, executive privilege is a real thing as established by the courts in their attempt to maintain a balance of power between the political branches, but it doesn’t apply to everyone; very often in these cases the details of who it applies to and who it doesn’t apply to have to be worked out by the courts, this is hardly the first time this issue has come up. With all that said, I think the charges are baseless and they don’t stand a chance of getting a conviction by a 2/3rds vote in the senate, but the house is entitled to bring up charges if they so choose.
The SEAL community value its integrity, any member who brings the teams into disrepute or in some way tarnish the good name of the SEAL fraternity are often ostracized from the SEAL community which is exactly what I heard about Eddie Gallagher.
You heard wrong punk. I’m a Marine, we love our squids. I would smash you’re face in, or anybody disrespecting this seal, or any other! The ones who testified against him are the ones who are blackballed by the navy seals. But I would still give my life for any one of them. Stop vaping and sign up. Let’s see what you are made of! TRUMP2020
*No pity for dead Jihadis*
The DRAFT DODGER gave the order to protect a war criminal and undermine Naval chain of command and discipline. Putin is winning EVERY DAY.
@Crystal Giddens I’ve read the same hearlines. What’s your point? They are all decorated. There must be a reason why they were recommending to remove his SEAL designation. He was demoted & recommended removal from the service. Trump stepped in based on recommendations from outsiders & reversed the decision of Navy authority. Is he willing to do the same for others who were found guilty of lesser crimes? Gallagher is not special & interference in the UCMJ detrimental to good order & discipline.
@Costa Keith You parrot talking points well. If you had served a day in the military you would realize how moronic you sound. Yeah, Trump is the CinC & as usual, he has interjected in matters that should have been left to the people he designated to lead. Gallagher’s witnesses against him was his own team members. Trump has LOST all of his admirals & generals who worked for him as civilians. He unjustly removed a top performing ambassador because someone got in his hears not unlike the Gallagher case. You do not give orders to the military or set foreign policy via tweet. Again, the removal of another cabinet member in less than three years…..i guess Mad Dog Mattis was a problem child with order & discipline as well. Have you ever thought that maybe Trump is the problem. Additionally, for clarity….a military member does not have to follow an order if it’s unlawful.
Cadet Bone Spurs loves war criminals.
@StarKiller 5iveOh TDS has eaten your brain away.
@Crystal Giddens Dont worry mam, there are treament centers all across America ready to help you conquer MAGA Cult Delusion Syndrome
@StarKiller 5iveOh good one!
@Crystal Giddens At least he has a brain. I suggest you Google what the service men and women in the different branches of military are called and then return and apologize to him.
He just keeps stooping lower and lower into things he knows nothing about. You’ve just undermined the ones sworn to protect this country. Not just you!
America may well have it’s first dictatorship.
Not much difference between Agolf Twitler and Adolf Hitler. Both dictators have/had crazy cult followings.
@Ancel Rick And who is ignoring their constitutional mandate and calling it a witch hunt? The Constitution is supposed to made up of 3 equal branches. TrumPutin can’t even spell constitution let alone follow it.
@Bob Loblaw well bob, there’s a really big difference. While it’s true Hitler was responsible for some the worst atrocities in recorded history and bringing his nation to a crushing military defeat. He was also largely responsible for the resurgence of German technical and industrial superiority. He also ushered in a decades long period of german technical innovation and not to mention the Autobahn and how that altered the western world . Trump is nothing like Hitler.
@Some Person Impeachment is permanent. The Senate cannot un-impeach. Bill Clinton was never un-impeached. Theres always a choice #weld2020
Trump setting a precedent for when he steals the copper wiring from the WH when he leaves. “I’m keeping them.”
wow trump keep defending this war criminal 🙄🙄🙄
Let me get this straight, now we have to let spanky mc bone spurs decide who is qualified military personnel? That is absurd.
#trumpisabsurd
Precedent Bone-Spurs gives his Secretary of Defense an indefensible order, and Esper trashes centuries of military justice and caves.
If Esper had any honor, he would have stood up to the Orange One and ignored this petulant brat. But NO ONE in this administration has any HONOR.
SHAME ON TRUMP. Shame on us for making this disaster “our” president.
Esper should have simply resigned. That would have been the honorable thing to do.
Trump is acting like what he is: a wannabe tinpot dictator. He pardons convicted criminals and trashes loyal, honest people. Heckuva guy!
@Ichabod Crane Yeah, If anyone gives CEO and Billionares trillions of dollars to buy back stocks in their companies stocks would sky rocket. Trust Trump to know how to cook the books.
@Craig 64 the Democrats have been given enough rope to hang themselves. Impeachment rhetoric is going to be poison for Democrats in 2020. The Democratic party just looks weak and desperate. The president’s re-election becomes more certain each day the Democrats dig their own grave…..
@Mad Hatman ever wonder how democrats with no experience in the workforce become millionaires?
Insulting Purple Heart recipients and rewarding convicted war criminals is the new normal now. What a sh.thole country the US has become.
forkless
I wonder what that Don Shipley guy as got to say on the matter. He goes after all those fake valour clowns
America, the damned joke of the world, the worst reality TV show out there
It kills us (normal) people everyday to live in this anger fueled environment. I’m afraid we have lost our way and have become soooo stupid, our culture is being ripped apart. It is literally idiocracy out there. This will not end well for anyone.
Wow, you two butthurt Doomers need some head pills. I recommend paxil, zanax, Zoloft, latuda, and anything else you can get a hold of. Maybe a couple cases of preparation H too.
@David miorgan You guys are comedic gold! So easy to trigger.
“REPUBLIKKKANS , TRAITORS TO AMERICA , PARTY B4 COUNTRY ….. FDT”
umm, Republicans represent the Nation in line with the Founders, they also freed the Slaves. It was the democrats who rebelled , started the Socialism and were behind the KKK. Trump 2020! Know the Truth !
doesn’t make up for the fact that the buffoon is a draft dodging coward.