Posted on 01/08/2025 11:23:24 AM PST by bitt
Milley told a small group in October 2024: ‘We had directed-energy weapons at Lafayette Park in June 2020.’
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents Donald J. Trump and Joe Biden told colleagues that he and the Department of Defense authorized use of directed-energy weapons against June 2020 rioters at Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., a highly placed source told Blaze News.
Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley — who served as the 20th chairman of the Joint Chiefs from October 2019 through September 2023 — made the disclosure at a private gathering in October 2024, the source said.
“Milley told a small group in October of 2024, ‘We had directed-energy weapons at Lafayette Park in June 2020’ to be used against rioters,'” the source said.
According to Blaze News' source, who was present at the meeting, “In the full context of the discussion, I took that to mean that both Milley and then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper had signed off on the use of those weapons.”
Esper, the 27th secretary of defense, was sworn in on July 23, 2019, and was fired by President Trump on Nov. 9, 2020. Blaze Media reached out to Esper for comment but did not get a reply by press time.
A spokesman for the U.S. Department of Defense referred any questions on the subject to now-retired Gen. Milley and the United States Northern Command. Capt. May Morales, media operations officer at U.S. Northern Command Public Affairs, told Blaze News: “USNORTHCOM does not have any information to offer on this matter.”
Directed-energy weapons are emerging from the shadows as more becomes known about them, how they are used by military and law enforcement, and the damage they can do to the human body. The spread in use of these weapons in domestic
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one didn’t need to be present at Lafayette Park that day to brand that POS as an enemy to the good citizens of the Country
Someone should frag him. Should have happened years ago.
In the early 1990s I took some Chinese visitors from a state-run company and a local Tianjin city government around Washington DC
They were incredulous we could walk up to the White House gate and see people coming and going from the White House
They were even more incredulous we could simply walk into the Capitol and roam around. For fun (and to see their reaction), I pointed out my Congressman’s office, and we walked in. I told his secretary I was from his district, and these folks were just tourists on a business trip - His secretary was as polite as could be. She offered to introduce us to the Congressman, but he wasn’t in the office - could we come back in the afternoon?
Their communist-trained minds were blown-away by the concept of open government, open buildings, visible and accountable leaders.
Americans DO NOT realize what they are losing with our present bloated, increasingly-centralized, neo-marxist, welfare-warfare Fed.gov.
Yep.
I hope President Trump has a good and effective way to weed out the bastards and replace them with patriots.
We can hope someone like General Flynn is already working on it.
Ok. My main, but not only, question is...
where “else” have they gotten authorization to use DEs...
particularly in ‘non-riot’ scenarios?
I think Milley is a traitor, but I have no issue with using a DEW on rioters burning down a city.
“Americans DO NOT realize what they are losing with our present bloated, increasingly-centralized, neo-marxist, welfare-warfare Fed.gov.”
Americans don’t realize a lot of things they have lost. But fortunately, enough of us realized what we’re up against to secure the vote for Trump last November. Our job is to make everyone ‘else’ aware now.
Not only did our Biden government entrap American patriots they also used them as lab rats. Outrageous!
I don’t either, as long as the standards used to begin using the devices are apolitical.
Too bad they didn’t.
Milley needs to be put in a court martial for treason and face a firing squad.
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