Retired General Mark Milley’s security detail and clearance are being revoked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, according to multiple senior administration officials who spoke to Fox News. This decision follows concerns over actions Milley took which undermined the military’s chain of command during Donald Trump’s first presidency.
The move also involves the removal of a second portrait of Milley from the Pentagon, located in the Army’s Marshall Corridor, which honors his tenure as the Army’s Chief of Staff. This action is set to take place as soon as tonight, leaving no portraits of Milley within the building.
The first portrait of Milley was taken down from the Pentagon on Inauguration Day, shortly after President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony.
🚨REVOKED: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken away General Mark Milley's security detail and security clearance and he may face a demotion in retirement. Milley said he would tell China ahead of time if the US was planning to attack, and had secret calls with China behind… pic.twitter.com/zYFXEnZs1M
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The Pentagon’s Acting Inspector General has been instructed to conduct a review to decide if there is sufficient evidence to demote Milley by removing one of his stars in retirement. This review will focus on actions Milley took that were perceived to challenge the established command structure during Trump’s tenure.
Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under both Trump and Biden, has been at the center of political controversy. Bob Woodward’s book “Peril” detailed Milley’s concerns about Trump’s mental stability and his control over nuclear weapons. Milley was praised by Trump for his role in the successful operation against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi before the general’s duplicity was made known.
Furthermore, Woodward and Costa’s “Peril” highlighted Milley’s private communications with his Chinese counterpart to assure there were no plans for an attack from the U.S., aiming to de-escalate tensions during a volatile time.
The controversy extends beyond Milley; Trump has also revoked security clearances for 51 intelligence officials who signed a letter discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The decision to pull security from Milley and other former Trump aides coincides with threats from Iran following the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a drone strike ordered by Trump in 2020. This has led to discussions on the implications of such removals, with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Tom Cotton suggesting a revisit of the decision regarding the security details for former officials like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo.
This action by the Pentagon signifies a new era of accountability within the Department of Defense under Trump’s leadership, as articulated by an anonymous senior administration official to Fox News.
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Go, Pete, go.
Milley has committed TREASON on more than one occasion, he should be tried and punished severely to set an example for the rest of those snakes.
Well, he’s a dick, so he’s getting what he’s got coming to him.
FAFO.
He should be charged with treason, the POS.
No treason without a declared war however he can be recalled to active duty and face a court martial/tribunal and get busted down as far as the law allows for the chain of command nonsense. They really need to do that to deter any future wannabe like him from doing it again.
👍 whatever it takes.
The list is long.
I’m curious why the words treason and sedition aren’t used. The charge of treason nullifies his pardon. A court-martial at least.
Article 3 Section 3 of the US Constitution addresses treason and it does not apply here, you need a declared war however sedition or its equivalent in the code of military conduct may, I haven’t looked into that.
Americas been under a NAtional emergency SINCE 1934. Milleys actions were treason bby diddling with América enemy, Chynah. He should be DC LampPosted.
If not by the pheds, then by WTP Street justice style.
don’t mention that or the death penalty which is still a legal morally acceptable consequence for certain crimes in our Nation on Twitter, oh excuse me…”X”. You will find your account suspended for promoting violence faster than a democrat can stuff a ballot box. Yup, Musk’s bastion of free speech is now slowly embracing the content moderation demanded by the EU which he promised he would do over 2 years ago when they threatened to ban the app in Europe if he allowed free speech.
Republicans are so entertaining to watch. The Trojan Horse Globalist is let right in the front door by Trump who continues to ignore the mess he created with the pandemic doing absolutely nothing to protect us from it happening again which is the highest priority he should be embracing. Not Milley, not the FBI, none of it. None of that is going to matter when the democrats with the help of the Republicans take back control of the reigns and roll out the next pandemic which they will use to undo every single thing the republicans are wetting themselves over which Trump is doing in one day.
Then when we are lining up for our next mandated vaccine so we are allowed to go shopping we can comfort ourselves that at least Jack Smith can’t practice law and General Milley lost a star. A star that will be given right back to him when the next Democrat takes office and proclaims him a national hero.
Republicans are great at being distracted while the republicans in congress, both parties work to push the globalist agenda. I would say maybe 2 or 3 at the most are actually not participating. That’s just amongst the republicans. Johnson worked overtime to stop Trump from winning and when he did he worked overtime to sneak a bill through congress that didn’t just fund the Ukraine War, Fund the Government, but also gave the government enormous broad new powers to lock down the population, restrict our movement and rights and took us another step to recognizing the authority of the WHO. That was pushed by a republican. Luckily the Globalist intervened. He doesn’t want anyone else stealing his spotlight. He has big plans for the world. X as the center of everything, smart cities, people not owning cars but using his self driving cars and sharing. He doesn’t hide it.
Again the nation is never going to recover. Enjoy the speed bump which just slowed down the progressive roll but they will eventually prevail. Not because of the Democrats because they have done everything they said they were going to do. They are NOT the liars. No, it’s the republicans who are the wolf in sheeps clothing. They are the ones who destroyed this nation with their decades of inaction, deferring to the hysteria created by the democrats and now we also have a compromised Supreme Court justice and a bunch of Faux conservatives like Catholic Coney Barrett who is a fiscal conservative ONLY. On social issues, forcing dangerous vaccines on healthcare workers, she is a hard left under that Catholic sensibility of all beliefs and all morality is valid and should be protected.
Yup, we are finished. We are the proverbial chicken with it’s head cut off running in circles because we haven’t figured out we are dead yet.
They should remove ALL of Millicent’s stars and force him to eat them just before the trap-door opens. There’s a name for colluding with America’s enemies, and THIS collusion story is NOT MADE UP!
Nailed it 100%….I like to call it the “trap door of treason” and there are quite a few people who should be visiting it for what they’ve done and allowed to take place the last decade plus. No pardon should Trump a treason charge…(Pun intended)
Demotion of one star!!!!! I’d say that a court martial and charge of treason is more than warranted!
How did that man get a security clearance?
Nothing less than a court martial for this traitor.
Milley should be living off his book sales and have zero pension after working to betray the USA.
They want to bust him down 1 rank for treason. Have other ideas what should happen to traitors. We have to many general officers in general lol. More generals today than during WW2 and we have less service members. This doesnt make sense. Demote a bunch of them
This BASTARD should get a dishonorable discharge and lose all retirement. He is like any dog face in the Army; you follow ORDERS.
Every president for a long time now has declared a war to keep the emergency was powers in effect; war on poverty, war on crime, war on drugs, war on terrorism, etc. According to all of these presidential declarations. why isn’t treason on the table?
FITING SQUAD
NOTHING ELSE
The guy is an absolute disgrace to the uniform. CRT training, drag queens, personal pronoun BS, killer vaccine mandates, Afghanistan withdrawal, reduction of training standards to accommodate women, promotion of LGBTQ-whatever’s, lowest recruitment ever, collaborating with the Chinese military. He should be demoted and court martialed.
dishonorably discharge him and then try him for the TREASON against the United States that he committed.
Strip the medals and cut off the buttons. He’s a disgrace to the uniform.
here we go with another republican watered down response. He can’t be tried in a Court Martial due to the “pardon” but he could have his entire rank removed not just one star. So this is throwing a bone to conservatives. People need to wake up. They are not holding these people accountable and that is emboldening Democrats to continue to push back.Trump is not doing what he said as far as holding people accountable. This is how we got the Biden administration from his last time in office.