Mark Milley Accused of Treason As Republicans Urge Joe Biden to Fire Him

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is facing accusations of treason from Republicans who have called on President Joe Biden to fire the United States' highest-ranking military officer.

Calls for Milley's ouster stem from a Washington Post article on Tuesday about two phone calls the general reportedly made to General Li Zuocheng of China on October 30, 2020, and January 8, 2021.

According to the article, Milley wanted to reassure Li that the U.S. was not going to attack China amid concerns about former President Donald Trump. He told Li he would inform him if there were to be an attack.

The second call was prompted in part by Milley's call with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on January 8, when she expressed concern about Trump's mental state. She told Milley: "You know he's crazy."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mark-milley-accused-of-treason-as-republicans-urge-joe-biden-to-fire-him/ar-AAOsBPI

Didn't pay proper homage to the humongous orange rump.

Trump Calls Allies to Demand Gen. Mark Milley Be ‘Arrested’ for ‘Treason’

In the afternoon hours on Tuesday, following reports that then-President Donald Trump’s top military adviser had formulated secret plans in case the commander in chief went “rogue” after the Jan. 6 riot, the ex-president picked up the phone and rang up several close associates and TV-prone political allies. According to two people familiar with the matter, the twice-impeached former president was sounding testy and had a simple request:

He wanted his prominent supporters to go on television and in public this week to declare that Gen. Mark Milley should be “arrested” for “treason.”

They followed his orders as various MAGA-faithful pundits and Trumpy candidates—including Ohio U.S Senate candidate Josh Mandel, Trump-aligned TPUSA frontman Charlie Kirk, and several former Trump officials—dutifully echoed the “treason” charge on social media. And by Tuesday evening, the twice-impeached former U.S. president was on a Newsmax show co-hosted by his former White House using the T-word.

“I've had so many calls today saying that's treason,” Trump told Newsmax hosts Sean Spicer and Lyndsay Keith. Later in the evening, the former president released a written statement through his office, calling him “‘Dumbass’ General Mark Milley,” adding that if the reporting is accurate, “I assume he would be tried for TREASON in that he would have been dealing with his Chinese counterpart behind the President’s back and telling China that he would be giving them notification ‘of an attack.’”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-calls-allies-to-demand-gen-mark-milley-be-arrested-for-treason/ar-AAOrEo0

Oh stop soiling your Depends.

[FBaggins]

1. October 30th? That was before the election

This just gets worse and worse.

[Comfortably_Numb]

2. Outraged that a sane person stood up to the orange buffoon, unlike those lackeys.

Shove the outrage traitors and seditionists.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Again, throwing around treason without much concern...

Has Milley violated UCMJ or standing orders or did he ignore the orders of the Pig?

Hell this is just in a book, is it even true?

[atreides1]

19. True

The UCMJ doesn't list treason as a crime -- the closest is " aiding the enemy ", at what point did General Milley aid the enemy?

China, like Russia isn't an enemy...an adversary yes, a business competitor...definitely, but not an enemy!

Was there a standing order, did Trump issue a specific order...could either order be considered illegal?

The best chance would be under Article 88 of the UCMJ: Contempt Toward Officials- “Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.”

[Diamond_Dog]

4. Trump calls Milley a "dumbass".

Just let that sink in for a minute ....

[Crunchy Frog]

5. He'd better not. nt

[dchill]

6. Mark Milley is why Republicans can't have nice things!

Like nuclear attacks to seal elections.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. MSNBC's Morning Joe absolutely shreds GOP outrage over Milley: 'Are you stupid?'

Joe is right here. When you have an impaired POTUS, it is necessary for people to step up

Link to tweet

"Of course, Republicans acting shocked, just absolutely shocked that phone calls would be made from generals and other people inside of an administration where a president was trying to overturn the results of a democratic election," Scarborough said. "These people are children. It might help them to actually read history books and understand that this has happened before. It has happened at times when presidents were not in the best shape, as Donald Trump was not in good shape, I would say for his entire presidency, but especially after Jan. 6."

"You can go back to October of 1973, during the Arab-Israeli war of 1973," he continued. "The war was in the fourth or fifth day, escalating towards possible nuclear war, and Henry Kissinger was fielding calls from 10 Downing Street. They wanted to speak with [Richard] Nixon, he was drunk, depressed, unable to speak, and Kissinger said no. For the next six, seven months, you had Kissinger, Alexander Haig and others from time to time calling our allies, calling our enemies and assuring them that everything was going to be okay, the United States wasn't going to act in a way that would start a world war."

"That's what leaders have to do from time to time," Scarborough added, "and there's nothing shocking and new about it."

[FalloutShelter]

8. We'll fire Milley ten minutes after

we indict the actual traitor, FG, who he went round to ... oh, I don't know, save the world from a nuclear conflagration.

Seriously?... I give the guy a medal.

[Walleye]

9. I think Milley should be given another medal.Can't believe some of the people who are condemning it

Protecting and defending the Constitution in the face of overwhelming disloyalty by the commander-in-chief

[JohnSJ]

10. I wish Biden would do that

[Walleye]

12. If there's room on his chest for another one. Tucker called Milley a stupid pig

They don’t give out those medals in cracker-jack boxes.

[Docreed2003]

14. This! I agree 1000% percent

Milley did his job and protected the Republic. I may not agree with him on much, but what he did with regards to circumventing the dictatorial tendencies of Trump deserves to be lauded.

[cilla4progress]

11. If he is fired,

what is to happen the next time? No one stands up???!!

[Aristus]

13. It sounds like he didn't countermand an order so much as reassure China that all proper

nuclear safeguards would be observed in the event of a Presidential order to launch.

Where's the treason? Other than in what we will laughingly refer to as Trump's supporters' minds...

[captain queeg]

15. Treason is against your country not your demagogue.

[anotherOKIE]

16. Remember that time...

Remember that time when the U.S. president was a mentally unstable madman and struck China and Iran with nuclear weapons to satisfy his delusions? No? Neither does anyone else. Fortunately for mankind there was a principled man standing between TFG and his evil minions to prevent the destruction of the only place where human beings can live.

[H2O Man]

17. Recommended.

Further evidence that they have never read the Constitution.

[Saboburns]

18. Biden should give him another star.

Seriously.

Milley doing what Patriots do, defending This nation, this Constitution, from all enemies both foreign, and the Republican Domestic ones.

The Treason was committed by Trump and any number of Republican seditionists who tried a coup after they lost the election.

These are not difficult truths to understand.

Give Milley another star. And do it soon.

[Etherealoc1]

20. President just gave Milley his full confidence

so that settles it.

[lame54]

21. Give him the Medal of Honor, Joe...

Watch their heads explode