President Trump’s new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, just dropped a big investigation on General Milley and nixed his security clearance and detail.
According to Fox News, Hegesth has order the Defense Department Inspector General to investigate Milley related to President Trump’s first term, which could result in Milley being demoted and stripped of a star.
Here’s more from Jennifer Griffin:
Fox Exclusive: Hegseth pulling Gen. Milley’s security detail and clearance ‘immediately,’ may face demotion in retirement, Hegseth ordering new IG to investigate Milley; orders removal of second portrait @LucasFoxNews reports:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
The secretary is also directing the new acting Inspector General to conduct a review board to determine if enough evidence exists for Gen. Milley to be stripped of a star in retirement based on his actions to “undermine the chain of command” during President Donald Trump’s first term, officials say.
The Pentagon will also be removing a second portrait of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon. This one is from the Army’s Marshall Corridor on the third floor honoring his service as chief-of-staff of the Army. Fox is told the removal of this second portrait will take place as soon as tonight. This means there will be no more portraits of Gen. Milley inside the Pentagon.
The article at Fox news doesn’t necessarily explain the basis for the investigation, but suggests Milley hated Trump was president and told Bob Woodward that he thought Trump was a fascist to the core:
In his new book “War,” Bob Woodward writes Gen. Milley told him at a reception at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. on March 6, 2023, that he believed Trump was “fascist to the core!”
Gen. Milley was still serving in uniform as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when he reportedly made the remark.
Woodward wrote that Gen. Milley, “shared with me his worries about Trump’s mental stability and control of nuclear weapons,” in a previous book.
When the leader of ISIS was killed in a daring raid carried out by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria in October 2019, President Trump praised Milley.
In their book, “Peril,” Bob Woodward and Robert Costa wrote that Gen. Milley called his Chinese counterpart on two occasions in the final months of Trump’s first term, warning him the U.S. military had no plans to strike China in a bid to avert tensions between nuclear-armed countries.
The administration source for this told Fox “There is a new era of accountability in the Defense Department under President Trump’s leadership—and that’s exactly what the American people expect.”