In an interview on “60 Minutes” on Wednesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley said he will take “appropriate measures” to make sure he and his family are safe in the wake of recent comments made by former President Trump.
Milley’s words come after a Truth Social post by Trump last week calling the chairman a “Woke train wreck” and accusing him of treason, seeming to reference calls made by Milley to China for reassurance at the end of Trump’s term.
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Trump’s post read. “A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!!”
“I’ve got adequate safety precautions,” the military leader said in response to a question about his concern about his safety from CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.
How are death threats legal in the USA?
They’re only legal if you’re Republican.
Kathy Griffin got blacklisted+investigated for holding up a fake severed Trump head.
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/23/716258113/kathy-griffin-life-after-the-trump-severed-head-controversy
But be a Republican politician making death threats and the DOJ will wrist slap you. It’s quite clear the bias our DOJ has always had. Other countries like Canada consider some of our extremists terrorists, and we’re still handing them baby sentences for an insurrection.
Didn’t Republicans burn Obama effigies?
They laterally erected a gallows outside the capitol on Jan 6th and chanted “hang Mike Pence” while they tried to go inside and get him.
They were openly hoping someone would get ahold of Pelosi or AOC and kill them, too.
Lynch mobs love a lil rape and murder, but yet they cry those crocodile tears over Ashli Babbit,
Yep
And hung them, iirc.
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Almost sounds like the federal security agencies aren’t actually too pressed about defeating domestic terrorism.
well that’s because our government’s full of people from both parties frankly it’s hard to convince people on the same team to go after their own
Not really. Democrats are willing to censure and investigate their own party members—maybe even too willing. Ask Al Franken.
I don’t often have opportunity to agree with lemmygrad users. But your observation is spot on here.
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I’m pretty sure the founders of the proud boys and some of our magat groups are Canadian morons. So I’m not so sure.
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It is stochastic terrorism.
It would be really cool if a judge, any judge, would grow a fucking spine and treat Trump like everyone else. Stay the motherfucker, place a gag order, and lock him up until trial, just like every other normal citizen. Fuck this special treatment bullshit.
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They always confess in the form of an accusation.
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Yet if any other citizen were to make comments like that about a government official, we’d already be locked up. How many lines does he have to cross before somebody will get the balls to throw the book at him?
He could literally shoot someone on 5th Avenue and get away with it.
How stupid do you have to be to threaten a 4-star army general?
Well, I guess as stupid as Trump, but still it defies logic.
In a normal world it would be incredibly stupid. In the reality that we’re living in, insulting military members, even wounded veterans can appeal to a certain crowd. Even ironically if some of the people in the crowd are military members or wounded veterans. The number one rule when you’re in a cult, is that the cult leader is always right.
One has to wonder if Milley was thinking “Yeah? Him and what army”
Well it’s not like he’s gonna face any consequences from it.
Y’know what might be an appropriate measure? Prosecute people that stoke or incite violence against our troops
Against any other person really
Call it what it is: terrorism.
I am certain General Miley knows how to stand his ground.
So, why do they hate him?
Basically in his role as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (a council of the different military branches) he called his Chinese counterpart during the election chaos to assure them Trump couldn’t unilaterally declare war on China:
Woodward and Costa describe how Milley learned in October 2020 that the Chinese had become concerned that Trump would preemptively attack China because Trump was losing the 2020 election and his rhetoric against China was growing increasingly hostile.
Milley again called his Chinese counterpart on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the attack on the U.S. Capitol, to again reassure him that the American government was stable and not an immediate threat to China.
That sounds more like the actuoi of someone desperai trying to put out fires whilst Trump was tossing gasoline everywhere
I’m curious as to what tfg was involved with, wrt China. There’s something he’s afraid will come out.
He didn’t try to launch a military coup.
In general or was there a specific Mike Pence situation where he just refused to commit treason?
Bit of projection there in Trump’s post, eh?
Projection? Funny, I know that as the GOP special.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In an interview on “60 Minutes” on Wednesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley said he will take “appropriate measures” to make sure he and his family are safe in the wake of recent comments made by former President Trump.
Milley’s words come after a Truth Social post by Trump last week calling the chairman a “Woke train wreck” and accusing him of treason, seeming to reference calls made by Milley to China for reassurance at the end of Trump’s term.
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Trump’s post read.
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper expressed his concerns Monday about retaliation by the former president against people whom he has had strife with — such as Milley — if he returns to office, calling them “legitimate.”
“Look, I think it’s a legitimate fear,” Esper told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins.
“If you recall from my memoir … I cite a circumstance where [Trump], egged on by his close advisers, wanted to call back to active duty Adm. McRaven and Gen. McChrystal, to court-martial them, for some things that they allegedly said in in the public domain, and Milley and I had to talk the president out of doing that, for any number of reasons.”
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Less a dog whistle and more of a signal flare.
What have it away? DEATH in all caps? It was DEATH in all caps, wasn’t it.
Maybe someone will rid him of that turbulent priest.
Honestly, I gotta say maybe Trump is what the country needs.
CALM DOWN
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He’s exactly what we need to see the exact special treatment that the rich and powerful get. He’s the shinning example of what kind of shit gets to fly through our machine unscathed.
Could you imagine if a random charismatic person was the cause of Jan 6th? They’d be rotting in prison for the rest of their life. But oh golly gee, a rich guy? It’s ok, he won’t do it again.
You know what they say
Some of those who work forces
