Milley says he will take ‘appropriate measures’ to ensure safety following Trump comments
Milley says he will take ‘appropriate measures’ to ensure safety following Trump comments
In an interview on “60 Minutes” on Wednesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley said he will take “appropriate measures” to make sure he and his family are safe in the wake of re…
In an interview on “60 Minutes” on Wednesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley said he will take “appropriate measures” to make sure he and his family are safe in the wake of recent comments made by former President Trump.
Milley’s words come after a Truth Social post by Trump last week calling the chairman a “Woke train wreck” and accusing him of treason, seeming to reference calls made by Milley to China for reassurance at the end of Trump’s term.
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Trump’s post read. “A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!!”
“I’ve got adequate safety precautions,” the military leader said in response to a question about his concern about his safety from CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.
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Trump threatening military with goons is laughable.
It is until it isn't.
Jan 6 was kind of a miracle because the cops sided with the government. But there were plenty of out of state cops on the side of the terrorists.
Same with the military. The hope would be that the majority obey the command structure and realize that trump et al are actively opposed to them. But... you tend to not get the best and the brightest to agree to join the military.
Or, to go back to Jan 6: There were definitely bad actor secret service agents and pence likely would have been lynched if he had the wrong detail that day. Same with congress people who had to genuinely think about who they were trusting.
So yeah. milley is generally well liked enough and high up enough that he knows who he can trust. But you can bet he is being careful about who he lets protect his family and which bases he visits.
Please don't ask me for a source because I don't have one, but I distinctly remember reporting about Pence being warned not to trust any unfamiliar secret service agents, and refusing to get into a car after the riot began because he did not recognise the driver.
Edit: Found a source:
After being taken to an undisclosed portion of the Capitol during the riot, Pence's Secret Service agents, whom Raskin suspected were reporting directly to Trump's security detail, asked him to enter an armored limousine. The intent, some have theorized, was to drive Pence away from the building, preventing him from certifying the election results, after he had signaled his unwillingness to go against his duties and keep Trump in power.
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"I'm not getting in the car, Tim," Pence said, in response to Giebels' insistence that he enter the armored vehicle. "I trust you, Tim, but you're not driving the car. If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I'm not getting in the car."
Meaning no disrespect, but it's pretty obvious that you don't know much about the US military. The senior officer corps uniformly despises Trump for all of the obvious reasons that we already know about, and no doubt for other reasons that aren't public knowledge.
Trump is only popular among the enlisted ranks, and even that's not universally true.
In any case, while the enlisted ranks know how to keep things rolling and coordinated at the lower levels of organization, there is no world in which any of them knows how to coordinate whole divisions, carrier groups, fighter squadrons, signals intelligence, bomber groups, the nuclear arsenal, and so on and so forth.
The US military is a vast and incredibly complex organization and the only people who really know how to operate it are all in the senior officer corps which again, uniformly despises Trump.
All that said, I would almost kind of like some crazy MAGA fucker to try to assassinate Miley. You know he's protected by some of the most highly competent and experienced security experts on the planet.
This is why tuberville is trying to stop military promotions, to help trump in case he wins in 2024. One of Trump's first action would be to clean house in the military and extract anyone who doesn't promise to help with his military coup
Got it. Can't shoot a general without having a nuclear submarine capable of launching a vtol off the deck.
It is enlisted and junior officers who are actually standing guard. It doesn't matter if every single captain and above is a true patriot (also, I have had to give presentations to some magats at much higher ranks than your "The military is great" post would say but...). You still are going to want to make sure you know the lieutenant and the sergeant who is actually standing near your kids with an assault rifle.
And, just because we are in full non sequitor territory: you don't get to the upper ranks without being a politician. And there are very much political decisions to be made about standing up to prevent efforts by the administration who you will likely be working for within the next decade. Because hopefully trump will never be elected ever again (not like he ever really was to begin with but...). But republicans will get power eventually and they will likely be more magat than not.