Retired General Calls Trump ‘A Failure’ After ‘Disgusting’ Attack Of Navy SEAL Who Killed Bin Laden

Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling on Sunday said that President Trump’s attacks against the former Navy SEAL who oversaw the operation that killed Osama bin Laden were “disgusting.”

During an interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, Trump derided Navy Admiral William H. McRaven, calling him “a Hillary Clinton backer” and insisting that “it would be nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner.”

Hertling told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield that Trump had insulted a “true servant” of the U.S. Constitution.

“I’d use one word,” Hertling said. “And that’s ‘disgusting.’ You know, everyone knows Bill McRaven as being the guy that led the bin Laden raid.”

“Having someone like the president of the United States, a man that holds an office that’s supposed to represent all people and who says he supports the military, to just dismiss this great American hero as a guy who was a Hillary Clinton lover, which is patently not true, is just really disgusting,” he explained.

Hertling also criticized Trump’s decision to skip a Veteran’s Day services at Arlington National Cemetery.

“It’s a factor of leadership,” Hertling insisted. “Leaders know what to do, where to be, what things to say. And in all three of those things, I think the president is currently a failure.”