US Navy Secretary John Phelan leaving Trump administration: Pentagon

[PufPuf23]

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Source: CNBC via MSN

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration "effective immediately," a spokesman for the Department of Defense said.

Hung Cao, the Under Secretary of the Navy, will lead the military branch in an acting capacity, the spokesman said.

There was no immediate explanation for Phelan's sudden departure, which comes as the U.S. Navy enforces a high-stakes blockade of Iranian ports near the Strait of Hormuz.

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is leaving the Trump administration "effective immediately," a spokesman for the Department of Defense said Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/us-navy-secretary-john-phelan-leaving-trump-administration-pentagon/ar-AA21vldo

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Must be some internal disagreement about how to use the US Navy in the Iran War.

Our leadership under Trump is ridiculous and dangerous.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. Maybe he is not bigotted, religious or blood thirsty enough for Hegseth

[AZJonnie]

5. Not enough on board with the KKKhristian Crusade? That's def. a possibility

But I lean towards suspecting he's resigning rather than following illegal orders.

[C_U_L8R]

2. No one wants to be the guy who lost an aircraft carrier

because their lunatic commander-in-chief is such a fucking moron.

[Lovie777]

3. Gut feeling.................

not about foreign matters, it's here.

[PufPuf23]

6. John Phelan is in the Epstein files and is a Trump crony,

otherwise not qualified to be Secretary of the Navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Phelan

[niyad]

13. Thank you!

[Prairie Gates]

4. Getting out prior to the outright criming, looks like

Understands that there is no statute of limitations on war crimes.

[LoCo Cat Lady]

7. Hung Cao is batshit crazy...

He ran for US House in my district and then US Senate for VA. Lost both times. If Hegseth is looking for a fellow Christian Nationalist, he found him.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Good info to know!

[Easterncedar]

8. Another rat leaving the sinking ship?

[niyad]

12. ordered off, apparently.

[surfered]

10. I wonder what stupidly insane thing Hegseth ordered him to do.

[niyad]

11. Why the hell were there ANY Dem votes to confirm this krasnov

donor, and who is in the trumpstein files?

[LudwigPastorius]

14. Hegseth was pissed at him for being closer to Trump than he was.

Phelan went over Hegseth's head in talking up new "Trump-class" warships to the Orange Felon.

[Emile]

15. After a discussion with the hosts, locking.

This is a duplicate of the same news story reported earlier.

DUPE of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143654972