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Richard Spencer: I was fired as Navy secretary. Here’s what I’ve learned because of it.
Do you believe Sec Navy's OP Ed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2e58bc-1092-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html
Do you believe Sec Navy's OP Ed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...2e58bc-1092-11ea-bf62-eadd5d11f559_story.html
President Trump involved himself in the case almost from the start. Before the trial began, in March, I received two calls from the president asking me to lift Gallagher’s confinement in a Navy brig; I pushed back twice, because the presiding judge, acting on information about the accused’s conduct, had decided that confinement was important. Eventually, the president ordered me to have him transferred to the equivalent of an enlisted barracks. I came to believe that Trump’s interest in the case stemmed partly from the way the defendant’s lawyers and others had worked to keep it front and center in the media.