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Gen. Milley 'repeatedly blew up' at Trump over racial justice protests, new book reports
The Week via Yahoo ^ | 6/28.21 | Brendan Morrow

Posted on 06/28/2021 12:34:19 PM PDT by central_va

Brendan Morrow, Staff Writer Mon, June 28, 2021, 7:26 AM Mark A. Milley and Donald Trump Mark A. Milley and Donald Trump BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Former President Donald Trump and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley reportedly found themselves in a heated shouting match in the Situation Room last year.

The account comes via reporter Michael Bender's new book Frankly, We Did Win This Election, as revealed Monday by Axios. According to Axios, the book describes how Milley "repeatedly blew up" at Trump over how racial justice protests should be handled in the summer of 2020, with Trump looking to invoke the Insurrection Act.

A passage from the book describes how during a meeting in the Situation Room, Trump reportedly "exaggerated claims about the violence and alarmed officials," announcing he "put Milley 'in charge.'" But Milley reportedly "confronted Trump about his role," telling him he "was an adviser, and not in command," at which point Trump "had enough."

"I said you're in f---ing charge!" Trump reportedly shouted at Milley, prompting Milley to yell back, "Well, I'm not in charge!" Trump reportedly then told him, "You can't f---ing talk to me like that!" Milley reportedly said to others, "Goddamnit. There's a room full of lawyers here. Will someone inform him of my legal responsibilities?"

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cjcs; markmilley; milley; pos
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To: ifinnegan
This book is propaganda and not credible.

Agree but the average Dem believes this crap. So you have to keep track of the BS they are feed there own side.

21 posted on 06/28/2021 12:47:41 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian

E-5’s and O-3’s are the operational part of the military.


22 posted on 06/28/2021 12:48:53 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: pepsi_junkie
So he refused a direct order from the Commander in Chief. Talk about insurrection.

I don't think it was an order that Milley could carry out. Doesn't the Posse Comitatus Act prevent the military from enforcing the law within the U.S.?

23 posted on 06/28/2021 12:51:07 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: PGR88

It was before my time, but I believe the military was called up to quell riots in the 60s, no? WHy was that different?


24 posted on 06/28/2021 12:52:53 PM PDT by NicoDon
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To: central_va
General Milley is a p*ssy. Reminds me of 'PC Principal' on South Park.

Has he been programmed or brainwashed by China or something?

25 posted on 06/28/2021 12:53:03 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: DoodleDawg
I don't think it was an order that Milley could carry out. Doesn't the Posse Comitatus Act prevent the military from enforcing the law within the U.S.?

No. Example.

In a dramatic and unprecedented move, President Dwight Eisenhower on this day sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to ensure the racial integration of Central High School. The confrontation over the integration of the Little Rock schools was one of the most dramatic events in the history of the civil rights movement.

Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and local authorities had resisted integration in the face of a court order to implement the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision on May 17, 1954. Mobs had prevented the enrollment of nine African-American students (the “Little Rock Nine”) on September 23, 1957, as local authorities failed to maintain public order.

26 posted on 06/28/2021 12:53:04 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

The reason liberals love war is it produces has the highest return on dead patriots and real men.


27 posted on 06/28/2021 12:54:29 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: LuciusDomitiusAutelian

This
traitor
should have been dismissed of his command
on the spot
and court martialed.

Then sent to a fed max sec pen//

EXACTLY.

They all act like the
Constitution
The Bill of Rights
And the U.C.M.J.

Are suggestions instead of

The Law of the Land.


28 posted on 06/28/2021 12:55:20 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: central_va

But the media told everyone that Trump surrounded himself with only “yes” people. Staff who would not disagree or argue with the president.

He, in fact, did take advise from everyone and then made decisions based on what he thought best. And he had an uncanny way of making the right one.


29 posted on 06/28/2021 12:56:10 PM PDT by elpadre ( )
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To: central_va

Yep, the O-3s are on the ground in an ODA.


30 posted on 06/28/2021 12:56:32 PM PDT by LuciusDomitiusAutelian (netstat -an | grep BS)
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To: FlipWilson

“...I love how these generals objected to the use of troops to quell violence on our streets...”

These Pentagon Peckerheads would quell any patriotic uprisings in a heartbeat if a democrat told them to.


31 posted on 06/28/2021 12:56:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: NicoDon
but I believe the military was called up to quell riots in the 60s, no? WHy was that different?

Everything was different. LBJ was approved by the establishment. America was much less divided. Nixon spoke about "the silent majority" and it was real. We still had a Constitution then.

32 posted on 06/28/2021 12:56:55 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: cuz1961

Miley promotes CRT

Critical race theory is//

Sedition.

Period.

It posits our

Constitutional Republic Government

is systemically racist

that must be overcome

( overcome is weasel for overthrow)

It is nothing short of an attempt to overthrow our government.


33 posted on 06/28/2021 12:58:27 PM PDT by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: PGR88

so...it was ok because... politics?

so much for the rule of law.


34 posted on 06/28/2021 12:59:42 PM PDT by NicoDon
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To: central_va

Funny how the left sees burning buildings to the ground and looting stores as “Exaggerated” yet those same leftists are still whining about a bunch of dudes wearing furs on their heads on Jan 6th as OMG OMG INSURRECTION..but hey I guess it all depends on who those people vote for, wearing maga hats, evil, burning buildings to the ground, all good if you vote commie


35 posted on 06/28/2021 12:59:47 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: central_va

Trump should have found a reason to fire him and every other Obama 3 and 4 star General and Admiral.


36 posted on 06/28/2021 1:00:28 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: central_va
Republican president Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock to ensure that black children could attend school where they had been blocked by democrat governor Faubus.

Until I realized that today’s republican party is the complicit party, not just the stupid party, I wondered why they did not proclaim loud and often that all major injustices of the past done to Black people were done under democrat government.

37 posted on 06/28/2021 1:00:29 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Freee-dame

Libertarian Limbaugh never devoted one minute of air time to this issue.


38 posted on 06/28/2021 1:02:59 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Just another sap who’ll fall for anything.

That is the stuff of insubordination.

He needs to be relieved of all that pressure.


39 posted on 06/28/2021 1:03:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: FlipWilson

Yep! Want to send 100,000 of us to civilize Afghanistan? Gen Milley is all over it!

Want to stop violent protests burning US buildings? He’s too morally pure.


40 posted on 06/28/2021 1:04:18 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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