FILE - Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (AP/Jeremias Gonzalez)
On "Fox News Sunday," the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Tom Cotton said he hoped President Trump would "revisit" the decision to pull the protective security details from John Bolton, Mike Pompeo and Brian Hook who previously served under Trump.
Asked why these actions were being taken, a senior administration official who requested anonymity replied, "There is a new era of accountability in the Defense Department under President Trump's leadership—and that's exactly what the American people expect."
Gen. Milley served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2019 to 2023 under both Presidents Trump and Biden.
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FILE - Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Mark Milley met with President Donald Trump and other senior military leaders at the White House in Washington, Oct. 7, 2019. (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)
FILE - A portrait of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired U.S. Army General Mark A. Milley, was unveiled at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 10, 2025. (DoD/U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack Sanders/Handout via REUTERS)
Woodward wrote that Gen. Milley, "shared with me his worries about Trump's mental stability and control of nuclear weapons," in a previous book.
When the leader of ISIS was killed in a daring raid carried out by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria in October 2019, President Trump praised Milley.
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"I want to thank General Mark Milley and our Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I also want to thank our professionals who work in other agencies of the United States government and were critical to the mission’s unbelievable success."
Before leaving office, President Joe Biden pardoned Gen. Milley.
In their book, "Peril," Bob Woodward and Robert Costa wrote that Gen. Milley called his Chinese counterpart on two occasions in the final months of Trump's first term, warning him the U.S. military had no plans to strike China in a bid to avert tensions between nuclear-armed countries.
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