Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Thursday expressed remorse for accompanying President Trump’s walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church with the President ahead of his surprise photo-op last week.
Say hello to your family for us, Mark — you’re about to be spending more time with them.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs should have some glancing familiarity with concepts like posse comitatus and the 10th amendment. Fuck Milley.
It’s amazing how a little debate about ‘about the role of the military in civil society’ can change your perception Milley…
Too late, General. Thank doG you don’t actually command anything.
Cowardice is a very fine motivation. If he’s afraid of a fate like Nuremberg, that’s excellent.
About time, Milley - that was 10 days ago. Now explain why you wear camo to work in the White House.
The hasty retreats by Milley and Esper tell you a lot about the military’s view of being used domestically.
It’s good to see some people finally moving away from their total capitulation to Trump’s more crazy and infantile whims and impulses. Still not enough, but some is better than none and more is better still. It would be interesting if there was a sort of red tsunami washing over Trump before the blue tsunami washes them all out of our lives in November.
My daydream for 06/11.
Well, call me a Pollyanna but he’s apologized and didn’t try to duck responsibility. Since Trump never bothers to tell anyone anything I can’t say what if anything he knew about what was happening and if he knew he was being used as a prop to lend seeming approval. I’d sure rather he do this than say he thinks it’s all hunky-dory.
In the meantime, it’s nice to see stirrings of pushback from people with a modicum of integrity who see the writing on the wall.
Shithead would love to get rid of Milley but he can’t with less than five months until the election.
Weak coward can’t stand people who question or criticize.
Milley said that he “should not have been there” and that his presence “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
But you were, and it did. Lack of awareness of the foreseeable consequences is not a good quality in a military leader.
More bullshit. I am tired of the these assholes.
Start the “You’re fired!” countdown…
So 10 days is how long it takes to grow a little spine.
Yup. Let’s acknowledge this. Unlike Esper, and everyone in the administration except Mattis, Milley is doing the right thing.
I have read a bunch of stuff on him, and the common read I see is that he is basically an honorable guy, but a bit of a hot head, tends to act, not think. Several generals were quoted saying that his lack of political ability made him a bad choice for Chair of the Joint Chiefs.
Whether he just did not think about what was happening and now honestly regrets it, or the criticism of so many retired uniformed officers (including rather pointed criticism by Mattis) got to him, he has decided to draw a line.
So while he should have pushed back and said no initially, his doing so today is significant. If Trump fires him it will be another nail in Trump’s coffin, with the general public, and those in the military or retired military. And those retires and those in the military vote, and are an out sized and relatively significant part of the vote in NC and GA, both of which are in play this year, and to a lesser extent in Texas.
O/T
This is encouraging from Milley. He’s basically saying that he would #resist a similar order from Trump in the future. That substantially cuts Trump’s ability to project power. Now, if we can get investigations opened into Barr, we’ve got a good shot at neutering Trump for the general election.
Now we know where the military stands. Trump will not be able to use them for to enforce domestic stuff.
I don’t buy it. He could have come out the next day, or the day after that or the day after that to say he was wrong. He waited until other military big wigs chastised him for tRumps performance op. Defense Secretary Mark Esper thought he was going to inspect a bathroom, where did this guy think he was going? He is a General and is suppose to be able to think on his feet and project into the future the outcome of multiple scenarios he engages in. The military leaders go into war situations as a show of force in other countries so how could he have not thought this would demonstrate to the citizens of the US that his actions would “created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” He been dealing with tRump for a while and he knows the man is a bully so his apology is BS. I think he’s sorry that his fellow Generals slammed his pimp walk with the Con because the way he was walking near tRump was not a man ashamed by what he was doing.
He gone.