described a bleak situation<\/a> aboard the carrier as more of his crew began falling ill.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He called for \u201cdecisive action\u201d: removing more than 4,000 sailors from the ship and isolating them, and wrote that unless the\u00a0Navy\u00a0acted immediately it would be failing to properly safeguard \u201cour most trusted asset \u2013 our sailors.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The letter put the Pentagon on the defensive and alarmed the families of those on the vessel, whose home port is in San Diego.<\/p>\n
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President Donald Trump, when asked about the captain during a White House news conference on Thursday, disputed the notion that Crozier appeared to have been disciplined for trying to save the lives of sailors.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI don\u2019t agree with that at all. Not at all. Not even a little bit,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
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Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden said that the Trump administration showed \u201cpoor judgment\u201d in relieving a warship commander who was trying to stem a coronavirus outbreak among his crew.<\/p>\n
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Separately, acting\u00a0Navy\u00a0Secretary Thomas Modly told Reuters on Friday that Crozier would not be thrown out of the\u00a0Navy, but rather reassigned as the\u00a0Navy\u00a0probed the incident. (Reporting by David Brunnstrom; Editing by Mary Milliken and Paul Simao)<\/p>\n
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