"Of course, it’s not remarkable for Trump to issue a baseless (yet incendiary) allegation against one of his critics. What is noteworthy — or at least, should be — is a leading presidential candidate deliberately trying to intimidate his perceived enemies through tacit threats of violence. And it seems fair to conclude that this is precisely what Trump is up to." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/09/trump-milley-death-fbi-threats.html
"The ex-president’s remarks about #Milley came amid a surge of violent threats against federal law enforcement, threats that his own rhetoric appears to have inspired.
... #Trump posted on Truth Social, “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING FOR YOU!”
"Fresh off calling for the execution of Gen. Mark #Milley, Trump doubled down on his rhetoric of brutality. He mocked the brutal hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband…. called Joe #Biden a '#motherfucker'…. and called for the summary #execution of #shoplifters. The crowd went wild."
"We don't take an oath to a tribe. We don't take an oath to a religion. We don't take an oath to a king or queen, or a tyrant, or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We don't take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that this is America and we're willing to die to protect it."
🚨🚨🚨Wow, outgoing CJS Chair #Milley hits #Trump at retirement ceremony: "We don't take an oath to a king, or queen, or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator ...we take an oath to the Constitution ... and we're willing to die to protect it".
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark #Milley is responding to comments by former President Donald #Trump suggesting that Milley deserves to be executed for communications the general had with #China.
'Unhinged' Trump’s 'lunacy' will be GOP’s downfall if they nominate him: WSJ editorial board
In a September 22 rant on his Truth Social platform, former President Donald Trump angrily railed against Gen. Mark Milley — chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — and implied that he deserves to be executed.
The #Republicans' assault on our #military continues. Not satisfied with endorsing Trump's call for Gen #Milley to be #executed, #MarjorieTraitorGreene put forth an amendment that would reduce the Secretary of Defense's salary to just $1. Notice that she didn't say anything about Congressional salaries. That's how you know her actions are 100% #political, and have nothing to do with budgetary concerns. Fortunately, this shit has no chance of ever being signed into law.
As someone shoved to the margins of the Catholic church — and content to be there — I say, when I look at men like Paul Gosar (and Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Leonard Leo, Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis, and countless others):
The US Catholic church needs to own what it's doing to democracy via its right-wing members.
The JCS Chairman took careful steps to thwart the dangerous, illegal, unconstitutional actions of an incompetent POTUS while managing to avoid getting fired.
When you call that "political" and "controversial", I don't' think you understand what those words actually mean.
The man's a patriot with impeccable integrity, which cannot be said of his boss.
Late Friday night, the former president of the #UnitedStates — & a leading candidate to be the next president—insinuated that America’s top general deserves to be put to death.
"Biden is old. But Trump is nuts (and fascist-adjacent).
Unless all of the laws of political gravity have been repealed (which may actually be the case), this ought to weigh in the balance at some point, don’t you think?"
Then, to provide evidence of this claim, Charlie Sykes looks at Trump's call for the death penalty for General Mark Milley.
A big story over the weekend was Trump and his acolytes firing a barrage of the most vile insults and threats at General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s highest ranking military leader. It’s hard to find in the NY Times, but the indispensable Heather Cox Richardson covers it as it should be covered:
A disturbing number of Americans, notably white Christian Republican-voting ones (the two groups are virtually synonymous) are far more upset to see a boy wearing fingernail polish than to hear a former president making what amount to death threats against a general.
This disparity captures something really, really wrong in American culture at present.
"The political press should be talking of nothing else until Republicans condemn and disavow the first major party presidential candidate to threaten a senior military officer with death.
Recognizing that the media would rather cover a botched poll than a death threat, another avenue of accountability is for either Judge Chutkan or Cannon to revoke Trump's pretrial release or impose a gag order on him."
I won’t post the screen grab of Trump’s usual toxic word-slaw, but you’ll get the gist from this exchange.
Via Andrew Weissmann:
Milley can also place in context new Count 32 in the FLA case (the Bedminster document that #Trump is caught talking abt on tape).
Kyle Cheney:
One question I have about Trump’s overnight attack on #Milley: Is he on the government’s witness list for Trump’s DC trial? He was a key Jan. 6 committee witness who said Trump privately admitted losing the election.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark #Milley said he never recommended a US military attack on #Iran during the #Trump administration, pushing back on claims made by Trump and his White House chief of staff Mark #Meadows.
General Mark Milley, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is convinced that the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is far from failure, noting that the real situation is different from what is laid out on paper.
Ukraine's counter-offensive far from failure, a lot of fighting left to go - US General Milley (www.pravda.com.ua)
General Mark Milley, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, is convinced that the counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is far from failure, noting that the real situation is different from what is laid out on paper.