Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was appointed by former President Donald Trump in 2019 and remains in office under President Joe Biden.
In a recently published excerpt from her forthcoming book, “The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021,” New Yorker writer Susan Glasser recounts Milley’s service during the Trump administration.
Glasser portrays Milley as a dedicated military officer with a strong set of values who loathed his unstable and temperamental boss. But despite his commander in chief’s “fits of rage, late-night Twitter storms” and “abrupt dismissals,” Milley was determined not to resign for the good of his country. So altruistic.
There was that one time, however, when Milley was so utterly humiliated by Trump that he spent days in his Pentagon office, writing and rewriting a letter of resignation.
The occasion came during the June 2020 George Floyd riots. Members of Black Lives Matter had tried, but fortunately failed, to burn down St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square. Trump, accompanied by several advisers and Cabinet members, famously walked to the church and was photographed as he held up a Bible. Milley was among that group.
The legacy media claimed that a crowd of BLM protesters had been “violently” cleared from Lafayette Square by the U.S. Park Police for the sole purpose of this photo-op. One year later, the inspector general of the Interior Department released a report stating that the USPP had cleared the park to allow fencing to be installed “in response to destruction of property and injury to officers.”
In her new book, of course, Glasser tells readers, “Most of the demonstrations had been peaceful, but there were also eruptions of looting, street violence, and arson, including a small fire in St. John’s Church, across from the White House.”
Anyway, because members of the military are expected to remain apolitical and he had participated in a “political event,” Milley was filled with remorse.
During a pre-recorded commencement address to the graduating class of the National Defense University, Milley apologized. He said, “I should never have been there.”
“As senior leaders, everything you do will be closely watched, and I am not immune, as many of you saw the result of that photograph of me at Lafayette Square last week,” he told the graduates.
“I should not have been there. My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics. As a commissioned, uniformed officer, it was a mistake that I have learned from and I sincerely hope we all can learn from it.”
Upon additional reflection, Milley penned a wildly arrogant letter of resignation, which is included in Glasser’s excerpt.
It is a boastful, four-paragraph letter written by a disgruntled subordinate with little sense of self-awareness. He tells the president he’s done some “deep soul-searching” and “can no longer faithfully support and execute your orders.”
“It is my belief that you were doing great and irreparable harm to my country,” he begins. “I believe that you have made a concerted effort over time to politicize the United States military. I thought that I could change that. I’ve come to the realization that I cannot, and I need to step aside and let someone else try to do that.”
Milley continues, “You are using the military to create fear in the minds of the people — and we are trying to protect the American people. I cannot stand idly by and participate in that attack, verbally or otherwise, on the American people.
“The American people trust their military and they trust us to protect them against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and our military will do just that. We will not turn our back on the American people.”
“I swore an oath to the Constitution of the United States and embodied within that Constitution is the idea that says that all men and women are created equal,” Milley writes. He expands upon his own acceptance of all people no matter their race, religion or sexual orientation, then moves on to his patriotism. The implication is, of course, that Trump is racist, bigoted and doesn’t love America.
“Lastly it is my deeply held belief that you’re ruining the international order, and causing significant damage to our country overseas, that was fought for so hard by the Greatest Generation that they instituted in 1945. Between 1914 and 1945, 150 million people were slaughtered in the conduct of war. They were slaughtered because of tyrannies and dictatorships.
“That generation, like every generation, has fought against that, has fought against fascism, has fought against Nazism, has fought against extremism. It’s now obvious to me that you don’t understand that world order.
“You don’t understand what the war was all about. In fact, you subscribe to many of the principles that we fought against. And I cannot be a party to that. It is with deep regret that I hereby submit my letter of resignation.”
Is he calling Trump a fascist? A Nazi? Sounds like it. If Milley thinks Trump damaged America’s reputation, we have to wonder how he feels about Biden’s blunders.
Unfortunately, he never submitted the letter to Trump.
Glasser writes, “Milley had finally come to a decision. He would not quit. ‘F*** that s***,’ he told his staff. ‘I’ll just fight him.’ The challenge, as he saw it, was to stop Trump from doing any more damage.”
Trump would have been better off if this coward had resigned. Among other allegations, Milley reportedly told his Chinese counterpart he would alert him if Trump were to plan any surprise attacks.
“Gen. Milley needs to be called in TODAY and asked under polygraph what he said to China.”
Sen. @RandPaul tells me why he believes Milley’s alleged actions could have “caused an accidental war.” pic.twitter.com/81YadLJbbv
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) September 15, 2021
I would remind Milley of a certain oath he took a long time ago. He solemnly swore to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
The BLM riots in the summer of 2020 were not peaceful. They were responsible for over $1 billion in property damage. They caused injury and even deaths. It’s one thing to oppose racism and quite another to excuse crime in our cities.
Either you’re for the rule of law and against terrorism, or you’re not.
Standing up for the rule of law and against terrorism isn’t politics, Gen. Milley. It’s your job.
A previous version of this article appeared on The Western Journal.
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The superciliousness that Milley displays here has thoroughly infected all of the U. S. military academies just as it has so much of the so-called ‘Permanent Government’. This is what the Framers deeply feared and fought to prevent. But the Progressive Movement managed to use the Constitution as the instrument of its own destruction by hacking away at the legs that supported it; the Balance of powers, the Separation of powers, the Checks and Balances and the implementation of a balance between State powers via the appointment of Senators and Popular power via the election of the House of Representatives.
But the dumbing down of the electorate was too far advanced to prevent the adoption and ratification of the 16th and 17th Amendments, both of which are exceed only by the 18th in the horrific damage they have done to this republic. They may have damaged the country beyond repair but that is no reason to shrink from their repeal at the earliest possible moment.
You forgot the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
I was so impressed with your comment, I thought if this man is not a writer, he should be! So I did a google search!
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Kidding aside, I agree with you right down the line. America is in a pretty scary place at the moment. Unfortunately, the majority of the electorate doesn’t quite grasp that liberal extremism is taking us down faster than Xi Jinping or Vladimir Putin ever could.
“Among other allegations, Milley reportedly told his Chinese counterpart he would alert him if Trump were to plan any surprise attacks.”
Milley is a general in the wrong organization. Instead of serving in the US Army, he should be a member of the New Jersey Generals, the exhibition basketball team constantly defeated by the Harlem Globetrotters, who always seem to knows the Generals playbook in advance
I doubt Milley wrote that letter in June 2020. Sounds like it was written to sell his book, which you can probably buy at the One Dollar bin in a few months.
Most of today’s generals write books instead of winning wars
Gen. Thoroughly Modern Millicent was insubordinate when he apoligized in public. Trump should have canned him that day. Millicent is a traitor to this country. Informing our number one enemy, Communist China, about our President’s potential actions in case of war, is worthy of hanging or firing squad. It’s not too late for that.
If Milley is of the best and brightest our military has to lead by, we are in serious trouble. Just the fact that he had the audacity to put what he did, in print, should kick him far from any command. Insubordinate, nothing approaching being a gentleman, and definitely political. As far as I’m concerned, there’s your three strikes against that coward wearing the uniform.
I think Milley must have read a Clancy book, where there was a back channel “to stave off disaster” and he thought he was the best one for the job. He is an idiot.
Milley: REMF.
I’ll take letters of resignation that were never written (or intended to be tendered) for $1,000.00, Alex.
SHAME!
I’d like to suggest one word that Gen. Milley should look into if “honor” is of any concern to him…
Seppuku.
Every piece of information we’ve seen related to this guy diminishes him. The politicization of the military in the 21st century-by politicians, certainly, but a role too many of them have willingly embraced-speaks volumes about why our most important institution has sunken so low in the public’s eye. Why is recruitment tanking and failing to meet requirements? CRT, COVID, gender stupidity, malfeasance, white rage idjiotcy and leadership incompetence. Whether this letter is real-or fantasy-it is classless and exemplifies the hubris of an officer that the system should have weeded out. He was shocked that the Afghanistan security forces he touted for years fell in 11 days. His military judgement said Russia would overwhelm Ukraine in 72 hours-nearly 6 months ago. He does not understand why it was important for a show of force after a riot forced the secret service to evacuate POTUS to the bunker built to protect him from terrorists. Questions? He needs to be fired, as he lacks the class or self awareness to resign/retire.
My humble vote as a 4-F, is for full-on ceremonial Drumming Out. Examples must be made, and by being allowed to flout the Constitution, his Oath and the chain of command with impunity the wrong ones are being made.