Trump wanted to court-martial SEAL admiral who oversaw Bin Laden raid
Undeterred by Trump's bullying, William McRaven says he won't be voting for Donald Trump who he likens to a "a disturbed 15-year-old boy"
“As Americans, we should be frightened—deeply afraid for the future of the nation. When good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security—then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.”
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William McRaven wrote those words in a 2020 op-ed in The Washington Post.
In an earlier piece in The New York Times, the retired four-star Navy SEAL admiral who oversaw the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan said the United States was “under attack” from then-President Trump and called for new leadership.
And for daring to criticize him, Trump wanted to recall the “disloyal” former head of the Joint Special Operations Command to active duty and court-martial him.
Publicly, Trump said McRaven and SEAL Team Six should have caught bin Laden sooner. (Never mind that it was the CIA’s job to fi…