Acting Navy secretary blasts ousted aircraft carrier captain as 'stupid' in address to ship's crew
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CNN)The Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly blasted the now ousted commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt as "stupid" in an address to the ship's crew Monday morning, in remarks obtained by CNN.
Modly told the crew that their former commander, Capt. Brett Crozier, was either "too naive or too stupid" to be in command or that he intentionally leaked to the media a memo in which he warned about coronavirus spreading aboard the aircraft carrier and urged action to save his sailors.
While Modly has publicly refrained from accusing Crozier of leaking the letter to the media in his address to the ship's crew, the acting secretary accused Crozier of committing a "betrayal" and creating a "big controversy" in Washington by disseminating the warning so widely.
"It was a betrayal. And I can tell you one other thing: because he did that he put it in the public's forum and it is now a big controversy in Washington, DC," Modly said, according to a transcript of remarks Modly made to the crew, copies of which have been provided to CNN by multiple Navy officials.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/06/politics/uss-tr-crozier-modly/index.html
There's audio.
Link to tweet
Go to about 1:55 to hear sailors yell "WHAT THE F-" when Modly calls Crozier stupid.
This audio is even more brutal than the transcript. Who in his team thought this would go over well?
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