Acting secretary of the Navy has submitted his resignation

[NYC Liberal]

Source: CNN

Washington (CNN)Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly has submitted his resignation a day after leaked audio revealed he called the ousted commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt "stupid" in an address to the ship's crew, according to a US official and a former senior military official.

The Navy and Department of Defense did not respond to a request for comment.
On Monday, Modly told the crew of the Roosevelt that their former commander, Capt. Brett Crozier, was either "too naive or too stupid" to be in command or that he intentionally leaked a memo to the media, in which Crozier warned about coronavirus spreading aboard the aircraft carrier and urged action to save his sailors, according to remarks obtained by CNN.

Late Monday night, Modly apologized in a statement for calling Crozier "stupid" in his earlier remarks.
"Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid. I think, and always believed him to be the opposite," Modly said in his statement. "We pick our carrier commanding officers with great care. Captain Crozier is smart and passionate. I believe, precisely because he is not naive and stupid, that he sent his alarming email with the intention of getting it into the public domain in an effort to draw public attention to the situation on his ship. I apologize for any confusion this choice of words may have caused."

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html

[Drum]

1. Womp womp....

[COLGATE4]

2. Good! One less Trumpite.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

14. Don't worry; he'll be replaced with another one who's just as bad

and possibly worse.

[IronLionZion]

3. He's too naive and stupid to be Secretary of the Navy

even if he was just "acting"

[TeamPooka]

4. bye felicia

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Good. Of course he'll be replaced with someone even worse,

which is what seems to happen whenever an inept and craven Trump appointee steps on his own dick in service of his master and ends up under that very large bus.

[Brother Buzz]

11. I'm hearing another unconfirmed nimrod is already penciled in

James McPherson, acting undersecretary of the Army, has been tapped to replace Modly.

[Eyeball_Kid]

6. Trump will whitewash all of it.

He's got 2 hours of every day to promote himself and all of his bullshit.

I heard some of it yesterday on a bike ride and nearly fell off the damned thing listening to one lie after another. There are no words to describe how much I despise the asshole.

[Laffy Kat]

7. Good. nt

[JenniferJuniper]

8. He probably thought he'd be knighted by

the orange Führer.

[C Moon]

9. Woo hoo! That guy is the biggest asshole I've ever heard speak.* He sounded like a friggin' Nazi.

*In good company with Trump and McConnell.

[Cha]

10. So who's the "stupid" one?

[FailureToCommunicate]

12. It's over...

[Dennis Donovan]

13. Looks like it was accepted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2020/04/07/top-navy-official-resigns-after-insulting-warship-captain-who-expressed-alarm-about-services-handling-of-covid-19-outbreak-on-ship/

Top Navy official resigns after insulting warship captain who expressed alarm about service’s handling of covid-19 outbreak on ship

By Washington Post Staff

April 7, 2020 at 3:47 p.m. EDT

Acting Navy secretary Thomas Modly resigned one day after he prompted a firestorm by traveling to the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier docked in Guam on which crew members are afflicted with the novel coronavirus, and assailed the character of the ship’s former captain.

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Good riddance to that clown...

[artemisia1]

48. I'm sure it was DEMANDED. /nt

[msongs]

15. trump will be bragging and taking credit for this while smearing the captain again nt

[KewlKat]

16. He was only following the wanna be kings example of behavior.

You reap what you sow

[Grokenstein]

23. That was his mistake:

Thinking he could pull Donny Littlehands' brand of abusive bullshit and get away with it. (Donny shouldn't be getting away with it either, but here we are.)
How's the view from the underside of the bus, Moldy?? Don't worry, maybe people will forget!!
(Narrator: People would not forget.)

[keithbvadu2]

17. Enlisted support

[OldManTarHeel]

21. LMAO

[brer cat]

27. I hope he did that over a trump rally!

[keithbvadu2]

18. Leadership comments from another posting. Worth repeating

Comments from another posting. Worth repeating

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213244889

It boggles my mind, however, that a Navy cabinet officer (sort of) can badmouth the captain of a capital ship. Even in the modern Navy that can't always steer that well or slips on maintenance, they don't usually give aircraft carriers to idiots. And if they do, nobody, NOBODY up the line badmouths that officer in front of his troops/sailors. And a civilian defense undersecretary who once wore the uniform should damn well know that.

Busting your captain and then calling him an idiot in front of the sailors who respect him is one hell of a way to blow morale all to hell.
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Discipline in private; praise in public.

Criticizing the commander of a unit in front of the people he led is absolutely wrong, and this asshole deserves every bit of the hatred he claims to be on the receiving end of.

Appalling conduct, especially from a graduate of the the US Naval Academy.

[BlueIdaho]

19. Make the fucker walk the plank. nt.

[WinstonSmith4740]

20. It couldn't come soon enough.

Even 24 hours was too long.

[StarryNite]

22. Good riddance!

And let the door hit him in the ass on his way out!

[ck4829]

25. +1

[ck4829]

24. K&R

[keithbvadu2]

26. Trump likes 'acting' appointees as underlings.

Trump likes 'acting' appointees as underlings.

Trump added that having "acting" officials gives him "more flexibility."

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211635809

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/06/politics/trump-acting-officials-cabinet/index.html

They don't need vetting and are easily disposable after they have served their purpose of sycophant.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. Don't let the door hit you where the good lord split you

He reminds me of this guy

[efhmc]

29. "Let me be clear, I do not think Captain Brett Crozier is naive nor stupid."

Then why did you say that? Because your glorious leader, DJT, gets by with outrageous lies and nasty epithet, did you think you could also?

[niyad]

30. Hey, mouldy, nowhere you are insulting OUR intelligence. We heard exactly what you said, knew

exactly what you meant. And now you are saying you meant just the opposite??? )The deranged dictator who interim-appointed you may believe that bs, but we do not. Crawl back under whatever rock is yours, and may we never hear of you again.

[keithbvadu2]

42. Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....

Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....

Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...

Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter

Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[not_the_one]

50. Cokie should know about "getting the message out there"...

she did enough of it for W.

Bless her heart in a big Texas way...

[McKim]

31. The Wind is Blowing Our Way!

This is a watershed event. The wind is now blowing out way. He could not get away with this in the military! Excellent! Trump and his bullies are losing in the court of public opinion and in the opinion of our navy!!!!!! Really Really good news!!!!

[Sapient Donkey]

32. Good.

[crickets]

33. And good riddance. nt

[DarthDem]

34. Well . . . bye

[Maribelle]

35. The actions of this secretary merely reflect the depravity of the Commander-In-Chief ...

and the innate corruption of his nature. Nothing more, nothing less.

He thought Trump would love it.

[Ad Infinitum]

36. SSDD

He is just getting started.






"acting"means no accountability.
Just keep replacing until you get the answer you want.

[riversedge]

37. bye bye

[PatrickforO]

38. This was yet another pathetic exhibit of the utter

corruption, incompetence and stupidity of the Trump administration.

[scarletwoman]

39. Is anyone surprised? (nt)

[catbyte]

40. You almost hate to see these clowns go because their replacements are always so much worse.

[FloridaBlues]

41. Trump will appoint another unqualified person to replace him

[CRK7376]

43. ByeBye

Good Riddance.

[CaptainTruth]

44. Did he hand off his letter just before stepping the plank?

[niyad]

45. I would be concerned for the safety of all the marine life in the vicinity.

[Warpy]

46. So one of them finally noticed the public is scarier

than some bloated, bellowing boss. He wrote that speech to square things with the boss. He now knows there are bigger problems he needed to face.

I doubt Crozier will get his command back, he embarrassed Dummy and that is simply not something anyone can be forgiven.

I just wonder which utterly loyal, incompetent boob he's going to make the next "acting," Eric comes to mind.

[Evolve Dammit]

47. This is what needs to happen to Devoss, Carson, Mnuchin, Kudlow. They all share 1 thing: they suck

[SunSeeker]

49. K & R

[smb]

51. All For The Low Low Price Of A Quarter Million Dollars!

Trip to Guam at center of top Navy official’s resignation cost taxpayers over $243,000