The Hill reports:
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, chose not to resign after growing increasingly disillusioned with then-President Trump in 2020, according to an upcoming book, instead vowing to “fight from the inside” against what he perceived as an erratic and dangerous commander in chief.
The revelations were revealed in an excerpt of “The Divider: Trump in The White House, 2012-2021” from The New York Times writer Peter Baker and the New Yorker’s Susan Glasser.
Milley reportedly came to the realization Trump was “doing great and irreparable harm,” as he wrote in a draft resignation letter in June of 2020.
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After Lafayette Square, Milley wrote out a never-delivered resignation letter obtained here for the first time.
In it, he wrote Trump: “It’s obvious to me that you don’t hold those values dear and the cause that I serve.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 8, 2022
“And lastly,” Milley went on, “it is my deeply held belief that you’re ruining the international order, and causing significant damage to our country overseas, that was fought for so hard by the Greatest Generation that they instituted in 1945.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 8, 2022
Milley opted against resigning but to stay and resist efforts to politicize the military.
“Fuck that shit,” he told his staff. “I’ll just fight him.” He added: “If they want to court-martial me, or put me in prison, have at it. But I will fight from the inside.”
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) August 8, 2022
for those asking, we did report some of our initial alarming findings about Trump and the fears of the generals he would go to war with Iran last year when we learned of them while reporting the Divider: https://t.co/2cCR7sMpys
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) August 8, 2022