Fired top Navy official says Trump doesn’t understand what a ‘warfighter’ is because they have standards and accountability

Date: Nov 26 2019

  • Former Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, who was forced into resignation by the defense secretary on Sunday, said President Donald Trump did not understand a core characteristic of the US military.
  • “I don’t think he really understands the full definition of a warfighter,” Spencer said in a CBS News interview on Monday. “A warfighter is a profession of arms. And a profession of arms has standards that they have to be held to, and they hold themselves to.”
  • Spencer’s remarks follow Trump’s press conference earlier in the day, in which he explained his rationale for the unprecedented move to formally pardon or reinstate the rank of convicted war criminals.
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Former Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, who was forced t0 resign by the defense secretary on Sunday, said President Donald Trump did not understand a core characteristic of the US military.

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