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¡¡¡¡WASHINGTON (AP) ¡ª Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday that President Donald Trump gave him a direct order to allow a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes to retire without losing his SEAL status.Esper told reporters at the Pentagon that Trump¡¯s order was the reason he announced Sunday that Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher would be allowed to retire with his Trident Pin, retaining his status as a SEAL.Last week Trump had tweeted that he wanted Gallagher to be allowed to retire as a SEAL, but Esper¡¯s comments Monday revealed that Trump had given the defense secretary a direct order to make this happen.Gallagher was acquitted of murder in the stabbing death of an Islamic State militant captive but convicted of posing with the corpse while in Iraq in 2017.In his remarks, Esper also made the extraordinary accusation that Navy Secretary Richard Spencer last week had secretly offered to the White House to rig the Navy disciplinary process to ensure that Gallagher not lose his Trident. He didn¡¯t say how.RELATED COVERAGE:Trump says Navy won¡¯t remove Gallagher¡¯s SEAL¡¯s designationPentagon chief fires Navy secretary over SEAL controversyNavy to initiate 'Trident Review' of Navy SEAL Edward GallagherChief Edward Gallagher review expected to proceed despite Trump's opposition¡°No. I asked, and I never got an answer,¡± Esper said.Esper fired Spencer on Sunday, saying he had lost trust in him. Spencer has not responded to requests for comment on Esper¡¯s accusation. However, in a letter Sunday to Trump acknowledging his firing, Spencer gave a different version of his thinking.Spencer said he could not in good conscience follow an order that he believed would undermine the principle of good order and discipline in the military ¨C suggesting that he had been -- or expected to be -- ordered to stop the peer-review process for Gallagher.Esper said he remains concerned, based on the Gallagher case and other trouble with battlefield behavior by the military, that soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are not properly and fully trained in ethical standards. He said he had ordered the Pentagon¡¯s legal office to review how the military educates and trains service members on wartime ethics and the laws of armed conflict. The review also will look at how the services monitor, investigate and adjudicate adherence.In announcing Sunday that he had dismissed Spencer, Esper said he acted after learning of Spencer¡¯s secret plan to guarantee the outcome of the Navy SEAL peer-review board that was scheduled to convene Dec. 2 with the goal of recommending whether Gallagher should be allowed to retain his Trident.Spencer had ¡°proposed a deal whereby if the president allowed the Navy to handle the case, he would guarantee that Eddie Gallagher would be restored to rank, allowed to retain his Trident and permitted to retire,¡± Esper said.This was ¡°completely contrary¡± to what Esper and the rest of the Pentagon leadership had agreed to, he said, and contrary to Spencer¡¯s public position that the Navy disciplinary process should be allowed to play out with no interference.Esper said he had previously advocated for allowing the Navy peer-review board go forward Dec. 2. But when Trump gave him a ¡°verbal instruction¡± Sunday to stop the process, he did so.¡°The commander in chief has certain constitutional rights and powers which he is free to exercise, as many presidents have done in the past,¡± Esper said. ¡°Again, these are constitutional powers.¡±Esper did not say explicitly that he disagreed with Trump¡¯s order.Once Trump gave the order, Esper said he responded, ¡°Roger. I got it.¡±¡°I can control what I can control,¡± he told reporters. The president, he said, ¡°has every right¡± to issue such an order.Esper said he had been ¡°flabbergasted¡± when he learned at the White House on Friday that Spencer had gone behind his back to propose a secret deal.The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Esper said that when he called the Navy secretary, ¡°he was completely forthright in admitting what had been going on.¡±The next day, Saturday, Esper called Trump to tell him that he intended to fire Spencer and Trump supported the decision.On Sunday afternoon Esper called Spencer and told him he was being fired. Spencer ¡°took it in stride¡± and said he would have a resignation letter to him within 30 minutes ¨C ¡°and he did.¡±In that letter, Spencer made no mention of what Esper called Spencer¡¯s secret deal with the White House.Esper said it was best, under the extraordinary circumstances set in motion last week, that the Gallagher review board not proceed as planned. He said he believes in the military justice system, but in this case it had become untenable.¡°As professional as they are,¡± he said of the board members, ¡°no matter what they would decide, they would be criticized from many sides, which would further drag this issue on, dividing the institution. I want the SEALs and the Navy to move beyond this now, fully 4975
¡¡¡¡WASHINGTON (AP) ¡ª Nearly 1.2 million laid-off Americans applied for state unemployment benefits last week, evidence that the coronavirus keeps forcing companies to slash jobs just as a critical 0 weekly federal jobless payment has expired. The new jobless claims were down by 249,000 from the previous week after rising for two straight weeks.The Labor Department¡¯s report marked the 20th straight week that at least 1 million people have sought jobless aid. Before the pandemic hit hard in March, the number of Americans seeking unemployment checks had never surpassed 700,000 in a week, not even during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. On Friday, the government is expected to report a sizable job gain for July ¡ª 1.6 million. Yet so deeply did employers slash payrolls after the pandemic paralyzed the economy in March that even July¡¯s expected gain would mean that barely 40% of the jobs lost to the coronavirus have been recovered.All told, 16.1 million people are collecting traditional unemployment benefits from their state. 1044
¡¡¡¡Volkswagen has been fined another €800 million (6 million) over its diesel emissions scandal, this time because of failings at its Audi subsidiary.Volkswagen said Tuesday it accepted the fine imposed by German prosecutors, waving its right to appeal. It said the penalty would hit earnings this year."As a negative special item, [it will] reduce the group earnings for fiscal year 2018 accordingly," it said in a statement.The penalty by Munich prosecutors is just the latest consequence of the scandal that emerged in 2015 and initially wiped out billions off the company's value.Volkswagen admitted cheating on clean air rules with software that made emissions look less toxic than they actually were.The fine concludes the Munich prosecutors' investigation into the company. However, probes into executives, including Audi's former CEO Rupert Stadler, continue, the prosecutors said.The €800 million fine comprises a €5 million penalty for administrative offenses, the maximum allowed under German law.On top of that, prosecutors ordered Volkswagen to repay €795 million they said the company made from the cheating. The prosecutors said this included profits from the sales of affected vehicles.In this case, the diesel emissions cheating affected nearly 5 million cars sold by the Volkswagen group in Europe and the United States, prosecutors said. Specifically, it concerned V6 and V8 diesel engines manufactured by Audi and installed in Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche brands, and Audi vehicles equipped with EA 189 and EA 288 engine made by Volkswagen.Shares in Volkswagen (VLKAF) and Audi (AUDVF) were trading higher on Tuesday. Volkswagen stock is down 11 percent so far this year. 1699
¡¡¡¡WASHINGTON ¡ª Presidential adviser Jared Kushner says President Donald Trump wants to help Black Americans, but they have to ¡°want to be successful¡± for his policies to work.Kushner added that Trump administration policies will help Black people overcome problems that the community has been "complaining about.""President Trump¡¯s policies are the policies that can help people break out of the problems that they¡¯re complaining about, but he can¡¯t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful," Kushner said.Democratic Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia accused Kushner of ¡°casual racism.¡±Former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile says Kushner is ¡°talking to folks who have suffered and endured systemic racism and historic tokenism.¡±White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany says ¡°internet trolls¡± took Kushner¡¯s words out of context. 872
¡¡¡¡WASHINGTON (AP) ¡ª A major union representing U.S. postal workers endorsed Democrat Joe Biden, a move that comes after President Donald Trump acknowledged he was starving the postal service of money in order to make it more difficult to vote by mail in November¡¯s election. The National Association of Letter Carriers, which represents 300,000 current and retired workers, said Thursday that Trump's longstanding hostility to the mail-delivering agency has heightened during the pandemic. They say his administration has taken ¡°steps outside of the public eye to undermine the Postal Service and letter carriers." Union president Fredric Rolando said Biden is a "fierce ally and defender of the United States Postal Service." 732