“I had no role in it,” President Trump says when asked about acting Navy Secretary Modly’s resignation, adding that he “would not have asked him” to resign. “I had heard he did because he didn’t want to cause any disturbance for our country.”
Esper wrote in his statement on Twitter Tuesday afternoon that Modly"resigned on his own accord, putting the Navy and the Sailors above self so that the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and the Navy as an institution, can move forward."
Tune into ABC at 1 p.m. ET and ABC News Live at 4 p.m. ET every weekday for special coverage of the novel coronavirus with the full ABC News team, including the latest news, context and analysis.for the Navy's top civilian official after he fired the captain of the Roosevelt for writing a letter -- later leaked to the press -- that used blunt language to ask the Navy to use stronger measures to stop the spread of novelActing Secretary of the Navy Thomas B.
"If he didn’t think, in my opinion, that this information wasn’t going to get out to the public, in this day and information age that we live in, then he was either A -- too naïve or too stupid to be a commanding officer of a ship like this," Modly said, according to a transcript and audio recording of the remarks that were sent to two news organizations."The alternative is that he did this on purpose.
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