Early in his first administration, President Trump noted the general’s “brilliance and fortitude.” And then the president got angry.
Pete Hegseth told Milley, a critic of Trump, that he had ordered an investigation to determine whether his rank should be re-evaluated.
The Pentagon pulled down a portrait of retired US Army General and frequent Donald Trump critic Mark Milley just hours after Trump’s Monday inauguration in Washington, DC, witnesses told Reuters.
Mark Milley's portrait as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was taken down from the Pentagon hallway where all of the paintings of the previous chairmen are located.
Former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardon of former Joint Chiefs Chairman retired Gen. Mark Milley was intended to shield the barrel-chested former Green Beret from “retribution” from President Donald Trump,
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has informed Retired General Mark Milley that he is revoking both his security detail and security clearance.
The portraits of former Defense Secretary Mark Esper and retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were removed from the Pentagon after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revoked Milley’s personal security detail and security clearance.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is pulling the security protections and clearance of retired Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Mark Milley
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General is reviewing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to look into retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and determine whether he should be demoted.
Newly minted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stripped the personal security detail and security clearance of former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley on Tuesday.
Retired Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Trump and Biden administrations, has had both his security detail and security clearance revoked, the Pentagon says.