Pentagon’s top general defends military as ‘apolitical’ after reported comments about Trump
Gen. Mark A. Milley repeated that the military should never be used in domestic politics
By
Dan Lamothe
Yesterday at 4:26 p.m. EDT
The Pentagon’s top officials on Wednesday defended the military’s tradition of staying out of elections, after a new book reported that Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, feared former president Donald Trump would attempt a coup.
Milley repeatedly declined to confirm whether the comments attributed to him in the book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” are accurate, but said he and other senior officers upheld their constitutional obligations throughout the chaotic presidential transition.
“The military did not, and will not, and should not ever get involved in domestic politics,” Milley said, speaking at a Pentagon news conference. “We don’t arbitrate elections. That’s the job of the judiciary and the legislature and the American people. It is not the job of the U.S. military. We stayed out of politics. We’re an apolitical institution.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/07/21/mark-milley-trump-coup/
