Anonymous ID: ee7929 July 15, 2019, 1:47 p.m. No.9366   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Richard Spencer becomes acting defense secretary while Mark Esper goes through Senate confirmation.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer took the reins at the Pentagon on Monday, becoming the third acting defense secretary since January.

 

Spencer is expected to temporarily lead the Pentagon while the Senate considers Army Secretary Mark Esper's nomination to succeed James Mattis as defense secretary. The Senate officially received Esper's nomination on Monday.

 

"The senior team supporting the Office of the Secretary remains in place to ensure institutional continuity," Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement on Monday. "Notably, this includes David Norquist, the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)/Chief Financial Officer, who continues to perform the duties of the Deputy Secretary of Defense; the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Joseph Dunford; and Eric Chewning, the Chief of Staff for the Department of Defense.

 

"Additionally, Thomas Modly, Under Secretary of the Navy, is now performing the duties of the Secretary of the Navy. Ryan McCarthy is no longer performing the duties of the Secretary of the Army and is solely serving as Under Secretary of the Army."

 

Esper had been serving as acting defense secretary since June 24, but the Federal Vacancies Reform Act prevents him from continuing in an acting role once the Senate has received his nomination. For the time-being, he has reverted back to his old job as Army secretary.

 

On Monday, Spencer walked into the defense' secretary's E-Ring office on the Pentagon's third floor on Monday.

 

"Ladies and gentleman, how are we doing today?" Spencer asked reporters on the scene.

 

Before becoming Navy secretary on Aug. 3, 2017, Spencer served as an CH-46 helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps from 1976 until 1981, leaving the Corps as a captain, officials said.

 

During his tenure leading the Navy, Spencer denied claims from people claiming they were exposed to dangerous chemicals found in the drinking water at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, following a federal judge's December 2016 ruling that the Navy was not liable for damages.

 

Spencer has also staked his job on fixing the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford's electromagnetic weapons elevators. In January, Spencer told President Donald Trump that if all 11 of the Ford's elevators were not working by the end of the summer, Trump could fire him.

 

Only two of the Ford's weapons elevators are currently functional, said Navy spokesman Capt. Danny Hernandez. Work on the other nine elevators is expected to last beyond October, when the aircraft carrier leaves the shipyards.

 

Esper's confirmation hearing is scheduled for Tuesday. He replaced Patrick Shanahan as acting defense secretary after Shanahan withdrew from consideration as defense secretary amid media reports that he and his son had both been involved in violent altercations with his former wife.

 

Shanahan had served as acting defense secretary after Mattis resigned in December in protest of Trump's decision at the time to withdraw all U.S. troops from Syria. Trump subsequently reversed himself.

 

https://taskandpurpose.com/spencer-acting-defense-secretary

Anonymous ID: ee7929 July 15, 2019, 2:13 p.m. No.9417   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>9428 >>9487 >>9708 >>9743

I saw this on Qresearch

Link to tweet: https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1150798030888558592

 

Article: Ex-Fox & Friends co-host Clayton Morris has left the country amid more than two dozen lawsuits from investors who say he defrauded them in real estate deals involving properties in Indianapolis.

 

Morris, who previously resided in a $1.4 million home in New Jersey, has moved with his family to a coastal resort town Portugal, according to his wife's Facebook post.

 

In an email to IndyStar, Morris's wife and business partner, former MSNBC anchor Natali Morris, said they plan to continue fighting the lawsuits from abroad. They have denied responsibility for investor losses, instead blaming their Indianapolis business partner Bert Whalen and his company, Oceanpointe.

 

Accusations of fraud: Investors say ex-โ€˜Fox & Friendsโ€™ host turned them into unwitting slumlords

 

Tenants suffer: Renters lived 'horrible.' Morris business partner lived large. The government helped.

 

"We have and continued to take responsibility for all of our legal challenges that came from our relationship with Oceanpointe. We have answered all of our attorney general requests in all states. We have answered all lawsuits," Natali Morris said.

 

"We have not run from anything," she added. "We continue to show up for this until the last lawsuit is dismissed and it is clear that we neither had the money from Oceanpointe investors nor did we defraud anyone."

 

But investors and their attorneys expressed concern about the move. They worry it could make it more difficult to serve Morris with legal notices and could complicate efforts to retrieve any damages if a judge finds in their favor.

 

"In my clients' opinion, innocent people donโ€™t flee the country," said Jynell Berkshire, an Indianapolis real estate attorney who is representing several investors.

 

Clayton Morris left 'Fox & Friends' in 2017.

Clayton Morris left 'Fox & Friends' in 2017. (Photo: Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

 

No criminal charges have been brought against Morris or Whalen. Local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in Indiana and New Jersey declined to confirm or deny any investigation.

 

In a lengthy post Thursday on her website, Natali Morris said the legal problems, animosity from investors and negative news coverage drove the family's decision to leave the country.

 

"I am not one of those who rejects America," she wrote. "We had a good life there. But my husband and I have had a hard few years in our business and this collective soul challenge forced us to question everything."

 

She said her husband was unfairly blamed because of his "residual 'fame' from his former career as a news anchor."

 

"But America is polarized and if you can write a headline about a Fox News guy doing something wrong, it will get clicked on in order to reinforce peopleโ€™s conviction bias, one way or another," she wrote.

 

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/07/12/ex-fox-friends-host-clayton-morris-leaves-country-for-portugal-amid-fraud-allegations/1705521001/

Anonymous ID: ee7929 July 15, 2019, 2:17 p.m. No.9428   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>9417

Matthew Keys

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@MatthewKeysLive

1h1 hour ago

More Matthew Keys Retweeted Matthew Keys

As a number of (mostly conservative) Twitter users have pointed out, his wife (and the co-defendant in the lawsuits) is a former MSNBC anchor.

 

Okay, I tweeted it, you can all stop now.

 

https://twitter.com/MatthewKeysLive/status/1150855511497043968

He's a real ass...