Trump is degrading the U.S. military

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This is life in the United States military under President Trump: Eddie Gallagher still has a job. Richard Spencer does not.

Gallagher is the Navy SEAL convicted earlier this year of posing in a photo with a dead captive during his 2017 service in Iraq — a violation of the laws of war. Spencer is the Navy secretary who wanted Gallagher stripped of his Trident pin as punishment for the crime.

On Sunday, Spencer was fired by Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

There are several sides to this story: Spencer said he was going to resign out of principle, while Esper said he had lost confidence in Spencer's truthfulness in handling the matter. But it seems clear Spencer might still have a job if not for Trump's decision to intervene early and often in the Gallagher case, disrupting both the chain of command and the Navy's increasingly desperate efforts to keep discipline in the ranks.

By interceding on behalf of Gallagher and other convicted war criminals, Trump seems determined to remake the U.S. military in his own image: cruel, undisciplined, careless of legal lines, and lacking any evident sense of public virtue.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-is-degrading-the-u-s-military/ar-BBXi1tx?ocid=msn360

[Wellstone ruled]

1. And Putin is lovin every bit of this.