Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reportedly drafted a resignation letter in the wake of his infamous stroll with then-President Trump and other senior officials through Lafayette Square after federal police used tear gas and flash bangs to disperse a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest outside the White House in June 2020.
Trump made him look like a fool, so he wrote a book?
The part about the generation which fought in the Second World War, I am happy that Milley referred to that.
Imagine having to surrender those gains to Donald Trump.
I believe he “appears” in another book. Not one he wrote (yet)
So much chaos and loss of respect sown my Trump. 
He should have resigned and made this letter public,
This is NOT the kinda stuff to keep behind closed doors if you TRULY love the country.
You are correct, this is not from a book by Miley.
Yes, That was quick
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Sorry, I don’t have the slightest idea what this means … are we pillorying Trump here, or Greenwald? Both? Neither? Sorry to be dense.
Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
@summer_concepcion As far as I can tell, General Milley is the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
So instead of resigning and being a one-day story, he didn’t and made himself a no-day story. Great advice he got, there.
I worried about him in particular, too. Who could hold their face like that all day and not become it?
I think Gates’ advice was solid. Who the hell knows WHAT would’ve happened if his replacement had ok’d the Insurrection Act.
In this article, the reader is led to focus on the difference between a totalitarian ruler and a democratically elected president…and the relationship of both with their military leaders.
It is clear that Trump fits the former type.
Many a totalitarian is elected first.
I’m glad he was there on Jan. 6.
That’s the kind of resignation letters that we needed from Trump officials who left when they realized what an awful administration it was, and that Trump was doing bad things. Instead, they were all milquetoast gibberish that made Trump sound like a normal president they regretted leaving.
But, it’s also very good that Milley did not leave, otherwise there may have been a Trump toady in place, or someone willing to go along, when Trump started maneuvering to hold onto the office. Someone not as principled as Milley may just have allowed the military to grab voting machines or put troops on the ground in an attempt to “instill order” and start a military takeover. We’re fortunate enough key people, including Milley, were in place to stop that…there’s no guarantee that will be true the next time a Republican president decides to start their dictatorship.
Yet Milley ultimately did not follow through with his resignation.
The only operative sentence in the entire thing.
Getting really tired of people trying to whitewash their involvement with, and their enabling of, Trump.
I don’t think it’s that clear-cut with Milley. His replacement could have been worse, and he was instrumental in making sure no shenanigans were pulled by Trump involving the military in the post-election phase.
The PitchBot is a New York Times parody headline writer. So, yes to pillorying Trump and Greewald and NYT.
This is not over,folks. Trumpsters still populate the defense establishment and the officer corps skews heavily GOP. One way we can tell if we are approaching electoral autocracy is the opening up of a “desert” around the Fearless Leader. Putin is a good example but just recall how depleted the Trump administration became in its last year.