@KNOWITALL Where do you get that idea? If you read the article it was Gallagher who was accused of committing war crimes himself.
“Chief Gallagher, who counts Mr. Trump as one of his most vocal supporters, was accused of shooting civilians, murdering a captive Islamic State fighter with a hunting knife in Iraq, and threatening to kill SEALs who reported him, among other misconduct. His court-martial ended in acquittal on those charges.
But the Navy ultimately demoted the chief, who was convicted of one charge: bringing discredit to the armed forces by posing for photos with the teenage captive’s dead body.”
He was acquitted of all the charges but one and demoted. It is not the President’s job to micro-manage military discipline and undermine the military chain of command.
I know we all bring our own biases to these questions and I do my own but I would not think the heads of the Navy would be threatening to resign if they did not think this was a serious breach of protocol.