Outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley has “appropriate measures” to ensure his safety, he said this week in his first public response to shocking comments made by former President Donald Trump suggesting that the Army general is a traitor who deserves execution.

Trump last week accused Milley of going behind his back to communicate with China during the final months of the Trump administration. Milley, who was nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by Trump, is set to leave his military leadership post at the end of the month. The general has stood by his communications with China and said he wishes that Trump hadn’t made his comments on Friday.

“I’ll take appropriate measures to ensure my safety and the safety of my family,” Milley said.

  • @qooqie
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    I don’t really follow anything that trump says, but what the fuck? People are just okay with this rhetoric coming from the republican front liner???

    • @[email protected]
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      1 year ago

      Did you just wake up from an 8 year nap? The dude straight up bragged about raping women and wanting to fuck his daughter, on camera, and they loved him for it.

      Hillary was right when she called them all deplorable.

      • @qooqie
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        51 year ago

        His rhetoric has always been extreme, but I feel calling for executions is taking it a step further. This man is fucking dangerous and everyone on the republican side is just “hehe can’t say anything bad about daddy trump or I’ll get spanked by his supporters hehe”. Even though there are republicans who are avidly against him and they haven’t been, as far as I know, hurt too much in their respective state polls.

        • @captainlezbian
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          Because he’s giving them what they want and they know that democracy won’t do that. This is the party of REDMAP and Gingrich and Goldwater and shutting down polling places in poor and predominantly black areas. Trump escalated it sure, but he was more the one willing to say things that they were afraid were political suicide. That’s why they distanced themselves but fell in line. When no backlash came they rode it out. There aren’t any people in 2023 carefully weighing their options between trump and Biden, just people acting on their emotions and allegiances.

          At what point do you accept that you’ve been one of the bad guys? At what point do you accept that the friends and family who cut ties with you over this were right? How far back do you have to look at your affiliation? Was it ok for you to have voted for McCain, romney, bush, Reagan?

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          01 year ago

          He tried to get his base to kill Hillary during the 2016 election.

          But, the GOP has largely turned their backs on trump for a slightly more competent tyrant. There’s only a small portion of his cult left.

    • @dangblingus
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      When he openly mocked a disabled reporter for being disabled. THAT should have been what killed his political career.

      Unfortunately, Republican voters in the USA are hateful cunts.