Donald Trump's marketing campaign consultant Steven Cheung criticized retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley after it was revealed that he labeled the previous president as “fascist to the core.”
Milley's remark was disclosed by The Independent and different information retailers after it was featured in legendary reporter Bob Woodward's newest e book, War.
“He is the most perilous individual ever. I had suspicions when I conversed with you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I recognize he's a total fascist. He is now the most perilous individual to this country,” Milley, who was appointed by Trump to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2018 and functioned within the position from 2019 to 2023, purportedly knowledgeable Woodward.
Cheung knowledgeable Newsweek by way of e-mail on Saturday morning that Milley is a “woke disaster,” describing Woodward as a “washed-up novelist.”
“Woke disaster Mark Milley evidently suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome and it's no wonder he associates with a washed-up novelist like Bob Woodward to spread lies and misinformation,” Cheung said. “If Milley devoted this much time and effort to executing his job, perhaps the Afghanistan debacle would have never occurred.”
Newsweek reached out by way of e-mail late Saturday morning to Georgetown University the place Milley is a distinguished fellow in home for enter from him.
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Cheung's declarations mirrored earlier remarks made by Trump on social networking. In September 2023, Trump said Milley “led perhaps the most embarrassing moment in American history with his grossly incompetent implementation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan,” including that “this guy turned out to be a Woke train wreck.”
In August 2022, journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker shared an excerpt from their then-forthcoming e book The Divider in The New Yorker, which included a disclosed never-sent draft of a resignation letter from Milley to Trump.
The draft letter was dated June 8, 2020, per week after police used tear gasoline and batons to clear Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters and journalists in order that Trump may do a photograph op at Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C. Milley was there that day and apologized for his position in it afterward.
“The events of the last couple weeks have caused me to do deep soul-searching, and I can no longer faithfully support and execute your orders as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It is my belief that you were doing great and irreparable harm to my nation,” Milley purportedly penned within the resignation letter draft. “I believe that you have made a concerted effort over time to politicize the United States military. I thought that I could change that. I've come to the realization that I cannot, and I need to step aside and let someone else try to do that.”
Milley reportedly referenced fascism within the draft letter when he referenced the Greatest Generation who fought in World War II.
“That generation, like every generation, has fought against that, has fought against fascism, has fought against Nazism, has fought against extremism…you [Trump] subscribe to many of the principles that we fought against. And I cannot be a party to that. It is with deep regret that I hereby submit my letter of resignation,” Milley purportedly wrote.
During Milley's retirement speech in September 2023, he said that service members “don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” however to the U.S. Constitution. Milley did not point out Trump's identify, however it appeared to be a veiled reference to him.
Trump known as Milley “slow moving and thinking” on social networking after the overall's obvious “wannabe dictator” dig.
Meanwhile, Fox News reported on Saturday that 15 Medal of Honor recipients, who've served in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, have backed Trump for president.
“We believe in the commitment to the United States Constitution and our solemn oaths to protect it,” the recipients stated, partially. “We believe in Donald Trump.”
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