President Donald Trump’s new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, is wasting no time getting to work. One of the first things he did after being confirmed by the Senate was to give retired four-star Army general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, a big spanking for what he did to Trump during and after his first term in the White House. Hegseth yanked Milley’s security clearance and his tax-payer funded security detail.
According to The Western Journal, this is essentially a demotion in status, however an actual demotion in rank could possibly be on the way as well. Actions have consequences. You reap what you sow, as the Good Book teaches. And this is a prime example of this timeless truth.
Hegseth, who was confirmed in a dramatic Senate vote late Friday, has also ordered an investigation into whether Milley went outside the chain of command with his actions during the first administration of President Donald Trump. Milley has admitted to Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that, in the waning months of the Trump administration, he communicated with his counterpart in the Chinese military without Trump’s knowledge. In their book “Peril,” published in September 2021, Woodward and Costas wrote that Milley told the Chinese general, “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.”
Milley then confessed that he would absolutely warn the Chinese government (a bunch of communists) about an imminent attack from the U.S. I believe that’s called treason. Or it should be anyway. The president agrees.
While Milley confirmed and defended the calls publicly, then-former President Trump used the social media platform Truth Social to brand the calls “TREASON.”
Hegseth’s investigation is expected to focus on whether Milley acted outside the chain of command. In the U.S. government, civilian control of the military — in the form of the president having ultimate authority over the men and women in uniform — is paramount, from the lowest privates to the highest offices in the Pentagon.
“Undermining the chain of command is corrosive to our national security, and restoring accountability is a priority for the Defense Department under President Trump’s leadership,” Pentagon Chief of Staff Joe Kasper went on to say in a statement released late in the day Tuesday.
And as a little bit of extra sting, Fox News reported that Hegseth is taking down the second and last remaining portrait of Milley from the Pentagon that marked his service as Army chief of staff. Ouch. That’s a big blow to the man’s ego. Within hours of Trump being inaugurate for his second term, the first portrait of Milley that honored his time as chairman of the Joint Chiefs, was removed.
“Fox also reported that Hegseth wants to probe whether Milley should be stripped of a star in his retirement years, meaning he would end up as a three-star general rather than four,” the Western Journal said.
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