Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley mum as more details emerge about his internecine battle to keep Trump in check during transition
Jamie McIntyre
Fri, July 16, 2021, 7:07 AM·11 min read
SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES: So far, there has been no public comment from Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley in response to a book by two Washington Post reporters detailing Milley’s fear that in his final days in office, President Donald Trump would issue unconstitutional orders to the military in an attempt to stay in power.
Milley, who appeared at a ceremony in Norfolk, Virginia, yesterday marking the standup of a new NATO command, has issued no denials of the bombshell account, leading many to conclude they are true. And this morning, Susan Glasser, a staff writer at the New Yorker, has added to the description of Milley’s frantic efforts to keep Trump in check until the peaceful transfer of power was complete.
Glasser, who is writing a book with her husband, Peter Baker, on the Trump presidency, to be published next year, says reports about Milley’s actions in two new books by Michael Bender of the Wall Street Journal, and Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, of the Washington Post, have been independently confirmed by her.
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