At his retirement ceremony, the outgoing chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a reminder that seemed aimed at election-denying ex-President Donald Trump.
After stepping down as America’s highest-ranking military officer on Friday, retiring General Mark Milley issued a reminder about the role of the armed forces ― one that seemed particularly directed at former President“We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion, we don’t take an oath to a king or a queen, or to a tyrant or a dictator, and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of...
Trump reportedly told his former chief of staff John Kelly that he wished he had generals like those who reported to Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler because they were “totally loyal,” according to the 2022 book In 2020, Trump became enraged with Milley when he and his team declined to order troops to attack Black Lives Matter protesters near the White House.
Air Force General CQ Brown was sworn in on Friday to succeed Milley as the 21st chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs.By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners.
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