{"id":176733,"date":"2020-04-02T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/02\/the-denials-of-white-house-interference-ring-false\/"},"modified":"2020-04-02T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:17:00","slug":"the-denials-of-white-house-interference-ring-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/04\/02\/the-denials-of-white-house-interference-ring-false\/","title":{"rendered":"The Denials of White House Interference Ring False"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/navy-removing-captain-of-coronavirus-stricken-aircraft-carrier-11585860735\">removed captain Brett Crozier as commanding officer of the Theodore Roosevelt<\/a> after a memo of the dire straits of the crew as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak on board leaked to the <i>San Francisco Chronicle<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>They are claiming that there was no White House involvement, which is 6 pounds of sh%$ in a 5 pound bag:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Navy leaders have relieved the captain of a U.S. aircraft carrier after a memo to military officials in which he pleaded for help with a coronavirus outbreak at sea was leaked to a newspaper.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Capt. Brett Crozier, the commanding officer of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, now at port in Guam, was relieved Thursday after superiors said they lost confidence in his ability to lead. The decision to remove him drew outrage from lawmakers and some relatives of crew members who backed the commander\u2019s call for attention to the crisis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Capt. Crozier had written a four-page memorandum recently demanding that superiors allow him to take the carrier to the port in Guam to offload sailors stricken with Covid-19. At least 114 of the vessel\u2019s crew have tested positive for the new coronavirus.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe are not at war. Sailors do not need to die,\u201d Capt. Crozier wrote in his March 30 memo, which was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. \u201cIf we do not act now, we are failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset\u2014our sailors.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The decision to remove the Roosevelt commander came as a surprise to some Navy leaders, who said their focus had been getting resources to the ship, defense officials said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Mr. Trump briefly addressed Capt. Crozier\u2019s dismissal during a White House briefing on the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, denying the move was punishment for calling attention to the plight of the crew.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI don\u2019t agree with that at all,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cNot even a little bit.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bullsh%$.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this was a political move, and it came straight from the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has removed captain Brett Crozier as commanding officer of the Theodore Roosevelt after a memo of the dire straits of the crew as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak on board leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle. They are claiming that there was no White House involvement, which is 6 pounds of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,379,445,572,454],"class_list":["post-176733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-military","tag-naval","tag-pandemic","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}