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(249,328 posts) Wed Jan 29, 2025, 07:02 PM Jan 2025

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth exacting revenge on General Mark Milley for telling the truth - Deadline - MSNBC

Courtney Kube, NBC News National Security Correspondent, joins Nicolle Wallace on Deadline: White with reaction from inside the Pentagon regarding Donald Trump’s decision to remove General Mark Milley’s security detail and his sycophant Defense Secretary Mark Milley first act at the Pentagon being spent trying to reduce Milley’s military rank in retirement all because of Milley’s refusal to comply with Trump’s unlawful orders during his first term and refusal to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. - Aired on 01/29/2025.

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Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth exacting revenge on General Mark Milley for telling the truth - Deadline - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 OP

Team Trump's revenge tour now includes retired Gen. Mark Milley LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2025 #1

Good Grief! And thanks for posting! Rhiannon12866 Jan 2025 #3

Have you ever worked with the new SECDEF? ... He brought me coffee once. Norrrm Jan 2025 #2

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,270 posts)

1. Team Trump's revenge tour now includes retired Gen. Mark Milley

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 07:12 PM

Jan 2025

On the one hand, Team Trump is launching legally dubious power grabs and wreaking havoc. On the other hand, these guys have no idea what they’re doing.

For a while, Trump was content to go after retired Gen. Mark Milley with juvenile taunts and name-calling.

As Team Trump pulls Milley's security clearance and targets his rank, it's vastly worse now. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-01-29T16:48:01.160Z

For a while, Trump was content to go after retired Gen. Mark Milley with juvenile taunts and name-calling.

As Team Trump pulls Milley's security clearance and targets his rank, it's vastly worse now.

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/team-trumps-revenge-tour-now-includes-retired-gen-mark-milley-rcna189793

Within hours of his presidential inauguration, Trump complained publicly about the pardon his former handpicked chairman of the joint chiefs of staff received. Soon after, the White House directed the Pentagon to take down a portrait of Milley. The next morning, the Republican president fired Milley from an advisory panel.

Each of those steps were, of course, petty and largely inconsequential. They left little doubt that the retired general was on Trump’s mind, but the moves did little more than make the president look small.

They were, however, just the initial steps from Team Trump. NBC News reported:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley that he is revoking his security detail and clearance and ordering a review of the retired general’s conduct to see whether his rank should be re-evaluated, the Pentagon said. Hegseth, whose first day at the Pentagon was Monday, directed the Defense Department’s inspector general to look into ‘the facts and circumstances’ surrounding Milley’s conduct ‘so that the Secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination,’ Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot said.

For good measure, according to multiple published reports, the Pentagon is also taking down a different Milley portrait, recognizing him as a former chief of staff of the Army.

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.....Obviously, the retired general has become the latest target in Team Trump’s post-inaugural revenge tour, but just as notable is the broader message to everyone else: If you anger the president, you too may find yourself facing the kind of fury that Milley is facing now.

In the run-up to the 2024 elections, the former chairman of the joint chiefs reportedly told Bob Woodward that he believes Trump is “a fascist to the core.” That assessment appears unlikely to change anytime soon.

Rhiannon12866

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3. Good Grief! And thanks for posting!

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #1)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 09:05 PM

Jan 2025

And we know what "bone spurs" TFG thinks of our military - "losers and suckers" - he obviously has no respect for those military heroes who risk their lives their country, as Americans have done for generations.

Norrrm

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2. Have you ever worked with the new SECDEF? ... He brought me coffee once.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 07:33 PM

Jan 2025

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