Tucker Carlson attacks Gen. Mark Milley for planning to stop a potential coup by Donald Trump
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Citation From the July 15, 2021, edition of Fox News' Tucker Carlson Tonight
TUCKER CARLSON (HOST): In early January, Nancy Pelosi pressed for specifics to Mark Milley. She wanted to know what the generals had done to help her. They wanted to know -- she wanted to know that they were doing things that were illegal, taking control of the military from civilian elected leaders. And Mark Milley didn't blush. He confirmed they had done just that. Quote, “Ma'am" Milley told Nancy Pelosi, “I guarantee you that we have checks and balances in the system," end quote. Yeah, checks -- they're written into the Constitution, Mr. Milley. I mean, that's on Wikipedia.
According to the Post, some of those checks and balances he referred to involved undermining the elected president's authority to choose the director of the CIA. It's interesting, by the way -- a lot of focus on the CIA. It tells you what kind of power they have.
So, when the president reportedly considered firing Gina Haspel who runs the CIA, and replacing her with a man called Kash Patel in the closing days of his administration, we now know that Milley pressured the president's chief of staff not to do that, to keep Haspel. “What the hell is going on here," Milley asked Trump's chief of staff, “What are you guys doing?"
This is lunacy. It's not how the government is supposed work. The chairman of the joint chiefs should not be having this conversation, expressing those views. He should leave if he can't keep them to himself. That quote right there is alone grounds for Mark Milley's immediate firing from his job.
No chairman of the joint chiefs has say over CIA appointees. No one in the military does. They can't. Talk about a threat to our system. And yet, The Washington Post thinks this is fine, because the president at the time was talking about election fraud, and that was inciting an insurrection. Scary.