Tag Archives: Mark Milley

Haley: Trump’s Call To Execute Milley Isn’t Disqualifying

The Messenger reports: Nikki Haley criticized Donald Trump’s recent attacks against former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, calling them “inappropriate,” but not disqualifying. The former president claimed last month that some of Milley’s actions would have been punishable by “death” in another time. NBC’s “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker asked Haley, a former UN Ambassador …

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Milley: Biden’s Alert, Sound, Engaged On Military Issues

“I engage with him frequently and he’s alert, sound, does his homework, reads the papers, reads all the read-ahead material. And he’s very, very engaging in issues of very serious matters of war and peace and life and death. So if the American people are worried about an individual who is, you know, someone who’s making decisions of war and …

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DOJ Cites Threat To Milley In New Push For Gag Order

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors on Friday reasserted the need to impose a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump in the case accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. They said that even after they first asked a judge three weeks ago to limit his remarks, Mr. Trump has continued to wage “a sustained …

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Milley: “We Don’t Take An Oath To A Wannabe Dictator”

The Messenger reports: Retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took a thinly veiled shot at Donald Trump Friday after the former president threatened the top U.S. general. “We don’t take an oath to a king, or queen, or tyrant, or dictator,” Milley said at a ceremony marking his retirement. “We don’t take an oath to a …

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Milley To Step Up Security After Trump’s Death Threat

Axios reports: Retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. Mark Milley said he’s taking steps to ensure his own safety and that of his family after former President Trump accused him of treason in an online post. Milley made the comments during an upcoming interview on “60 Minutes” after CBS’ Norah O’Donnell noted that Trump last week said that his …

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Trump Attacks Joint Chiefs Chair As “Woke Train Wreck”

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Mark Milley, who led perhaps the most embarrassing moment in American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, costing many lives, leaving behind hundreds of American citizens, and handing over BILLIONS of dollars of the finest military equipment ever made, will be leaving the military next week. This will be …

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Trump Complained About Wounded Vet Performing At Ceremony: “No One Wants To See That, The Wounded”

The Atlantic reports: At his welcome ceremony at Joint Base Myer–Henderson Hall, across the Potomac River from the capital, Milley gained an early, and disturbing, insight into Trump’s attitude toward soldiers. Milley had chosen a severely wounded Army captain, Luis Avila, to sing “God Bless America.” Avila, who had completed five combat tours, had lost a leg in an IED …

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Top General Vowed To Fight Trump “From The Inside”

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 …

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Milley: Calls To China Were “Routine” Part Of My Job

The Associated Press reports: The top U.S. military officer said Friday that calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final stormy months of Donald Trump’s presidency were “perfectly within the duties and responsibilities” of his job. In his first public comments on the conversations, Gen. Mark Milley such said calls are “routine” and were done “to reassure both …

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Milley: My Calls To China Were In Line With My Duties

The Associated Press reports: The top U.S. military officer on Wednesday defended the phone calls he made to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of Donald Trump’s presidency, saying the conversations were in keeping with his duties as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a written statement, Gen. Mark Milley’s spokesman, Col. Dave Butler, said Milley acted …

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Rubio To Biden: Fire Milley For “Undermining” Trump

Via press release from Sen. Marco Rubio: U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to immediately fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley. “I write with grave concern regarding recent reporting that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to actively undermine the sitting …

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BOOK: Top General Took Secret Action To Protect US Nuclear Arsenal From Being Used By “Crazy” Trump

The Washington Post reports: Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the country’s top military officer was so fearful that the president’s actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict. In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his …

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Gen. Mark Milley: “Nothing I Saw Or Anyone Else Saw Indicated A Collapse Of This (Afghan) Army In 11 Days”

“I have previously said from this podium, and in sworn testimony before Congress, that the intelligence clearly indicated multiple scenarios were possible. One of those was an outright Taliban takeover following a rapid collapse of the Afghan Security Forces and the government. “Another was a civil war, and a third was a negotiated settlement. However, the time frame of a …

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BOOK: Joint Chiefs Chairman Warned Trump Against Air Strikes On Iran, “You’re Gonna Have A Fucking War”

The Hill reports: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley issued a stark warning to former President Trump against a possible strike against Iran in the final months of his presidency, telling him such a move could lead to a “fucking war,” according to a book set to be released next year. “If you do this, you’re gonna have …

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BOOK: Pelosi Feared “Maniac” Trump Would Use Nukes

The Hill reports: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was fearful former President Trump would launch nuclear weapons in his final days in the White House, according to a new book. Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker write in “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” that Pelosi called Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the …

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Top General Warned Of Trump’s “Reichstag Moment”

The Guardian reports: Shortly before the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Mark Milley, told aides the US was facing a “Reichstag moment” because Donald Trump was preaching “the gospel of the Führer”, according to an eagerly awaited book about Trump’s last year in office. Leonnig and Rucker …

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Carlson Calls Top Pentagon General A Racist [VIDEO]

“White rage is not a medical condition, it’s not even a legitimate academic theory. It doesn’t exist. ‘White rage’ is a racial attack. “So here, you have the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a congressional hearing leveling a race attack against American citizens, the guy who’s supposed to be protecting our country. “That is disgraceful, it’s disqualifying, …

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Carlson Calls Top US General A “Stupid Pig” [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post reports: Fox News host Tucker Carlson slung mud at Gen. Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, on Thursday evening, calling him “a pig” and “stupid” after the Army general defended the teaching of critical race theory in the military a day earlier. “Mark Milley is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,” the conservative personality …

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BOOK: Top General Refused Trump’s Order To Have Troops “Beat The Fuck Out Of” Civil Rights Protesters

CNN reports: The top US general repeatedly pushed back on then-President Donald Trump’s argument that the military should intervene violently in order to quell the civil unrest that erupted around the country last year. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley often found he was the lone voice of opposition to those demands during heated Oval Office discussions, according to excerpts …

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General Eviscerates Gaetz After “Woke” Military Insult

The Daily Beast reports: Finding himself in the news for non-sex-scandal-related matters on Wednesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was left flustered and shaking his head when Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered a blistering retort to the MAGA congressman’s criticism that the military is too “woke.” With the GOP currently engaged in …

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