The US Department of Defense has confirmed that the White House wanted to hide a warship named after the late US Senator and Trump critic John McCain during a visit to Japan by Donald Trump before the US president.
The US Navy’s seventh fleet had been instructed by a Trump employee to hide „USS John McCain,“ said acting US Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan yesterday. But he emphasized: „The instruction was not obeyed.“
The military should not be „politicized,“ Shanahan said on the sidelines of an Asian trip. „I will deal with it in a timely manner.“
For Chief of Staff no „devious“ approach
Trump’s chief of staff Mick Mulvaney admitted meanwhile in the US transmitter NBC, the arrangement probably came from a member of the investigation team of the White House. The request was in his eyes but not „outlandish“ been. Be fired because of
Ship name imposed with tarpaulin
US media had reported last week that the White House had wanted to hide after the late Trump critic McCain named warship in front of the US President, as he visited Japan. In the meantime, a tarpaulin was hung over the name of the ship and then a barge was positioned in front of the „USS John McCain“. Trump denied having issued an order.
McCain died of a brain tumor last August at the age of 81. The Republican was one of the most prominent members of the US Senate and was one of the harshest party critics Trump. Shortly before his death he decreed that the US President should not attend his memorial service.
