
Twitter erupts over Milley’s ‘fight Trump from inside’
On Monday, the New Yorker reported Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley had grown so disaffected with President Donald Trump in 2020 that he considered resigning but instead chose to stay and ‘fight’ Trump ‘from inside’ the administration. Join our AMN Telegram channel here for no tech censorship. The New Yorker published these alleged details about Milley in a forthcoming book “The Divider: Trump in The White House,” written by New York Times journalist Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, which releases in September. According to the book excerpts, Milley debated resigning after being photographed walking with Trump near the St. John’s Episcopal Church in Washington D.C. the night after it was damaged by arsonists. Critics characterized the moment as a photo op, and Milley publicly apologized for participating. In a prepared, but never submitted resignation letter that followed, Milley allegedly said Trump was “doing great and irreparable harm to my country.” Ultimately, instead of resigning Milley decided “I will fight from the inside.” From there, Milley vowed to stop Trump from starting any new wars or using the military to stay in office. Twitter erupted over the claims in the forthcoming book, with journalists, and political and military figures debating whether Milley was acting out of legitimate concern about Trump’s leadership or whether he was subverting the duly elected president. Retired U.S. Diplomat Alberto Miguel Fernandez criticized the New Yorker article as “creepy” for “glorifying assorted generals standing up to the civilian president.” I mean look at the first anecdote. Trump sees a military parade in (democratic) France and wants to replicate it, and the Vice-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff tells him, “it’s what dictators do.” And doesn’t get corrected. Is Macron a dictator? — Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) August