The US military leader urged Trump not to allow the Secretary of the Navy to resign because he prevented SEAL task force from punishing a sergeant.

Top US military generals lobbied President Donald Trump on Air Force One, suggesting he stop interfering with the case of a member of the Non-Coordinated Marine Task Force (SEAL). alleged war crimes, according to 5 US defense officials.

SEAL task force Edward Gallagher in October was demoted by the US Navy from sergeant to sergeant and sentenced to 4 months in prison for photographing the body of an Islamic State militant (IS) in Mosul, Iraq in 2017.

Trump then intervened, announced amnesty for Gallagher and asked the US Navy to reinstate the task force. The White House boss continued on November 21 on Twitter protesting the US Navy's consideration of the possibility of removing Gallagher from the SEAL task force, arguing that the case was handled "badly from the beginning".

NYTimes newspaper reported on November 23 that Navy Secretary Richard Spencer threatened to resign if Trump signed an order requiring the US Navy to end the investigation to remove Gallagher from SEAL task force.

However, Spencer later denied this information. "There are rumors that I threatened to resign. But I have never threatened that," Spencer told the media at a security conference in Halifax, Canada on November 23. The US Navy Secretary affirmed that "compliance with order and discipline also means obeying the orders of the President of the United States".

Spencer also denied information that Rear Adm. Collin Green, the head of US Special War Command, threatened to resign because of the Gallagher case.

He earlier said Gallagher still had to attend internal hearings and faced the risk of being expelled from SEAL forces if President Trump did not sign a written order asking the navy to end the investigation. .