On the day of his inauguration, President Donald Trump wasted no time in doing many things that upset his perpetually outraged critics, and among them was having the official portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley removed from the Pentagon hallway it had been unveiled in not even two weeks prior.
Milley, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Trump's first term in office, had been preemptively pardoned just hours earlier by then-President Joe Biden in what many viewed as a disturbing abuse of his presidential power.
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Trump, of course, has many reasons to despise Milley, as outlined by my colleague Rusty Weiss here, including committing what some have suggested as treason in the last months of Trump's first term in office.
Milley, as RedState readers will recall, reportedly assured “his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike,” according to a Washington Post recounting of claims made in a 2021 book written by their associate editor, Bob Woodward, and one of their reporters, Robert Costa.
Per that same report, Milley took it to a disturbing new level on one phone call by informing the Chinese general, “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.”
Milley later admitted to the communications during a tense September 2021 House Armed Services Committee hearing after Joe Biden's deadly Afghanistan debacle but claimed in so many words that the comments were taken out of context.
Fast forward to the present day, and between the portrait removal and Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth pulling Milley's security detail and security clearance, so-called "journalists" are pouncing and seizing on What It All Means, including the New Yorker's Susan Glasser:
Vice President JD Vance responded accordingly:
I should point out for the record that Glasser was a staunch proponent of erasing history by force just a few short years ago:
Democrats and mainstream mediots not practicing what they preach. Shocking, right?