I recently mentioned in one of my comments that President Trump has thoroughly seeded the Administration’s Departments and Agencies with incompetent political hacks at the top (and a couple of tiers down) who trust and believe him, or at least, are afraid to oppose him. At that moment I was thinking about how, when he said there was no crisis, the CDC’s leadership took its sweet time developing a coronavirus test, failing to respond with the sense of urgency that was needed.
Another example of the insidious corruption within the Administration is just now coming to light.
The New York Times has just released an analysis of how the response to the “Theodore Roosevelt” coronavirus outbreak by Thomas Modly, acting Secretary of the Navy, has created a moral crisis for our military. In short, the acting Secretary, who “knew the President had sacked his predecessor” for resisting the President in the matter of the war crimes trial of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher, “got involved in the day-to-day deliberations [about the Theodore Roosevelt situation] to a greater degree than Navy tradition and the chain of command would expect precisely because Modly was obsessed with how the story might be playing inside the White House”.
“Several current and former Navy and national security officials said the Roosevelt episode illustrated how civilian leaders in this administration made questionable decisions based on what they feared Mr. Trump’s response would be.”
Retired Adm. Mike Mullin, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents G.W. Bush and Barack Obama, said Mr. Modly “has become a vehicle for the President. He basically has completely undermined, throughout the T.R. situation, the uniformed leadership of the Navy and the military leadership in general.”
I encourage you to read the entire article here www.msn.com/… or here www.nytimes.com/...