Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Milley intended to resign from trump admin.

Milley & Austin are running our military into the ground. They are weak and pathetic.

 

Trump asked why his generals couldn't be more like Hitler's, book says

Former President Donald Trump once asked his White House chief of staff Gen. John Kelly why his generals couldn’t be more like Adolf Hitler’s, who were, in Trump’s view, “totally loyal.”

The previously unreported conversation was published by the New Yorker on Monday in an excerpt from “The Divider: Trump in the White House,” a forthcoming book by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser that will be published on Sept. 20 by Doubleday. Baker is the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times and Glasser is a staff writer for the New Yorker.

“You (improper language) generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?” Trump asked Kelly, according to the book.

“Which generals?” Kelly asked.

“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.

“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.

 

Tell me you're a MAGA cultist without telling me you're a MAGA cultist.

 

A nearly trillion dollar budget doesn't buy what it used to I guess

 

The maga mob will vilify him to no end as he dared to cross dear leader.

 

Another insightful, productive contribution to the discussion. Kudos.

 

I don't know Milley's political party. But, in the face of Trump's authoritarianism, Milley absolutely put country before party. Thank God he did.

 

Plus, I thought Trump didn't like losers.

 

If you believe in something, you need to act like you do---

Gen. Milley drafted scathing letter of resignation to Trump after Lafayette Square (msn.com)
"The events of the last couple weeks have caused me to do deep soul-searching," Milley wrote, "and I can no longer faithfully support and execute your orders as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is my belief that you were doing great and irreparable harm to my country. 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."

 

If it was already written, then he should have had it ready to go (with a few modifications) after the Afghanistan debacle. He must be a guy that just likes to talk about what he shoulda done.

 

For real. Milley has proven his gross incompetence and if he actually disagreed with the boneheaded withdrawal plan, he should have resigned then. The obvious answer is he didn’t.

It’s yet another sign the ruling class has absolutely no clue how to run the country, but yet wants your adulation and hard earned dollars to buy their memoirs of ineptitude. Galling really.

 

I wonder how soon Trump will call him Silly Milley. (You read it first here.)

 

The power of rationalization is amazing

 

Trump was too cowardly to end the Afghan war himself. So, he set up Biden by negotiating a deal with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan govt and released thousands of Taliban leaders and fighters. Trump left it for Biden to actually withdraw our troops, because he was too scared to do it himself.

 

You have the political narrative down pretty well. I’ll address Afghanistan in more detail in later thread. I was referring to Milley trying to get credit for “moral courage” standing up to Trump when he never stood up to Trump. He had the equivalent courage of the bystander to a violent act against a friend who later, under safe circumstances, declares, “I wish that [bleepity bleep] would have tried that with me!”

He demonstrated similar moral cowardice when this President disregarded the professional advice of all of his senior military advisors in favor of that idiot Jake Sullivan (who for reasons I can’t begin to fathom still has a job). Milley et al could have resigned just like Mattis did when it was clear the President didn’t have his confidence and he was trudging toward strategic disaster. Trump’s strategic missteps are certainly relevant, but they don’t excuse this President’s, no matter how artfully worded. And they certainly don’t excuse Milley’s failure to throw his rank on the table and say, “Mr. President, respectfully, sir, you are being wrongfully advised by someone who doesn’t understand the subject in which he is advising you. This will end in disaster if we continue on this path. And I can’t have my name on it.”

 

play it out for me, what happens if Milley resigns and Trump replaces him with a MAGA mainliner who calls out the military to support his rebellion?