{"id":23402,"date":"2020-04-07T13:50:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23402"},"modified":"2020-04-07T13:52:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T20:52:13","slug":"navy-secretary-quits-over-ouster-of-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=23402","title":{"rendered":"Acting Navy secretary quits over ouster of captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p data-page=\"1\" data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_top\" data-item-number=\"top\">The Navy secretary resigned Tuesday in a mushrooming controversy over the firing of a popular aircraft carrier captain who warned about coronavirus endangering his sailors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p>Acting Secretary Thomas Modly quit a day after he was recorded telling sailors on the virus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt that fired Capt. Brett Crozier was \u201ceither too stupid or too naive\u201d to lead them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p>Modly was left swinging in the wind after President Trump apparently reversed his previous support for the tone-deaf dismissal of Crozier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p>The president slammed Modly\u2019s blunt remarks as \u201crough\u201d on Monday. Hours before Modly\u2019s resignation, the president retweeted a prediction that he would soon \u201cget involved\u201d in Crozier\u2019s ouster.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"desktop-nativo mobile-yieldmo inline-ad \" data-inline-ad-count=\"2\">\n<div id=\"f0AzvSvVeGzvVr\" class=\"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo\" data-pb-name=\"Nativo Ad\" data-pb-curated=\"curated\" data-pb-id=\"unnamed-feature\">\n<div id=\"1596\" class=\"trb_ar_nt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"f0AzvSvVeGzvVr\" class=\"wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-ads-nativo\" data-pb-name=\"Nativo Ad\" data-pb-curated=\"curated\" data-pb-id=\"unnamed-feature\">\n<div id=\"1596\" class=\"trb_ar_nt\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p data-item-type=\"depthscroll\" data-item-id=\"depth_scroll_middle\" data-item-number=\"middle\">Modly issued a written apology late Monday but that failed to quell demands for his head.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy secretary resigned Tuesday in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23405,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23402\/revisions\/23405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}