Trump said he did not make the decision to fire Crozier, but he disagreed with Crozier's actions: "He shouldn't be talking that way in a letter."
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump defended the firing of Navy Capt. Brett Crozier during a coronavirus task force press conference Saturday afternoon, calling Crozier's letter asking for help for the sailors of the USS Theodore Roosevelt"not appropriate."
"Perhaps you don't do that in the middle of a pandemic," Trump said, adding the letter was"not appropriate" and"he shouldn't be talking that way in a letter." "We are not at war, and therefore cannot allow a single Sailor to perish as a result of this pandemic unnecessarily," Crozier wrote. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said Crozier had"exercised extremely poor judgment" in distributing the letter.
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