Trump’s Navy Crisis Deepens as New Ship Failure Exposed

Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images A supposedly formidable guided-missile destroyer spent almost a week floating without power in politically tense waters in the latest Navy failure to hit the Trump administration. Staff aboard the USS Benfold, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, endured four days without working toilets, galley services, or air conditioning in the sweltering heat of the South China Sea after losing power. The 30-year-old vessel, designed to defend against air and…