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Tucker: Why is Mark Milley still in command of US military?

2021-07-15 | 🔗
'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host claims the general was 'undermining' the Trump White House
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Good evening and welcome to Tucker Carlson tonight, Heres a story weve completely forgotten about, because there are so many just before last Novembers presidential election, two former army officers, wrote an open letter to the chairman of the joint Chiefs of staff men, who still has the job. The letter became public. It was published on the left wing blog called defense, one and within minutes was all over the internet. The authors of the letter had a direct order from Mark Milley who, strictly speaking, did not report from them. If Donald Trump refuses to leave off. As the letter began, the United States Military must remove him by force, and you must give that order. You must remove the president by force thats a little shocking. What country is this? Even the usual powermad partisans in the news media began to wonder if thatS, a really good idea, slate dot com of all places reminded its readers that no matter how Orange Donald Trump might be military coups
generally turn out to be unwise for the Pentagon had to go on the record as opposing it too. The rest of us could keep civilian control of our government and what a week that was paid within days, the story just kind of receded, another weird footnote to a weird four years, but if you paused for a second, you had to wonder: where did that idea even come from? Did two former? U dot s? Military officers really just suggest removing the President of United States by force of arms, since when do american military officers talk like that or think like that, and do a lot of them have views like that. We push that consideration from our minds, but we shouldnt have now. We know that Mark Milley himself is the sort of sin who considers military coups entirely within the realm of possibility. A new book written by reporters at the Washington Post, who cover Mark Milley, reveals the current chairman of the joints. Chief of staff is a legitimate extremist hes, the last person you would give power to if you could possibly help it in the book. He describes Donald Trump in the millions of
people who supported them as the moral equivalent of Adolf Hitler. Thousands of trump supporters peacefully gathered in Washington for what they assumed was a constitutionally protected political rally, the kind we have had for hundreds of years, certainly after the election mark, Milley lining them to the Nazi party. He explained his advisors out loud were actually calls for. This is the gospel of the fuehrer. Those are quotes. Think about that. Your grandfather joined the: U Dot S military, to go overseas, to risk his life to fight in the Nazis. Now the head of the? U dot S military calls you a nazi for having your grandfathers political views. What do you call that even mind that Mark Milley is a man? The media tells us is a deep intellectual, someone who reads, books and stuff, not just Wikipedia, and yet this well read. Man of history is comparing
nearly half of our country to Adolf Hitler, and that would include the many Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley who voted for Donald Trump. They agree with him on immigration, hes, not just his guy with crackpot views. Mark Milley has control of nuclear weapons. Are we okay with it? The people on tv are okay with it. You read what Milley was doing, which is obeying the constitution. It standing up to the oath that he and serving members have taken. I mean that is what a general does General Milley and his team in the military, with the courage to stand up to realize that something was going horribly off the rails with the president of the United States, thank Goodness General Milley was there and other generals. I think all saw this guys flaws. His jaw dropped theres no other way around it. Maybe the guy was going to make darn sure that those guns were not used. You think of General Milley
and you think of someone who chooses every word with intention and is a student of history and to use the words like Nazi says a lot. He is a student of history. They are easy to impress over on CNN, make reference to Nazis and you must be a highbrow grad school god. If you compare the enemy to. If you compare the enemy to Nazis, you know you are a Princeton guy. The problem is hes, a lot more powerful than they are according to the Washington Post account. The mark, Milley is the reason. Th thousands of american soldiers occupied the capital ahead of Joe Bidens inauguration were going to put a ring of steel around the city and the Nazis arent getting in referring to Milley citizens, a ring of steel to rappel, the Qanon shaman and several senior citizens from Orlando.
This is guy who is paid to assess threats. What country poses a threat to the United States? Put them in order, if you think the Qanon shaman is the same as the ss. Maybe you are not so good at that, then he gave a speech out of the 1990s Bruce Willis. Everything is going to be. Okay, we are going to have a peaceful transfer of power were going to land this plane safely. This is America, its strong, the institutions are bending, but it wont break in the end. No Nazi attack ever came much to mark Milleys apparent disappointment. It wasnt Dunkirk. He think that would be an embarrassment to mark Milley. To give a speech like that- and nothing happens. Some guy dressed, like Chewbacca, shows up, but no he was not embarrassed. In fact, he gave a speech testimony to Congress and a said, apparently not referring to himself that he understands white rage better than anyone. I do think its important actually for those of us in
uniform to be open, minded and be widely read in the United States. Military academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand- and I want to understand, white rage and im White and I want to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out and maintain an open mind, and I do want to analyze it its important. We understand that, because our soldiers, Marines and guardians they come from the american people, so it is important that the leaders now and in the future do understand it. White rage, just a casual racial slur. These people have no self awareness, but he tells us he spent many hours reading Robin Dangelo learning about white rage, but that white rage never came mark. Milley was not deterred by that
soon. After the election he began informally planning with other military leaders strategizing how they would block trumps order to use the military in a way they deemed dangerous or illegal. Wait. A second pause here for a moment as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, the guy who is empowered by our constitution, our democracy, to make this decision now hes. Not he cant make them independently. If he disagrees, he can resign, but he cant make them independently, but he kept going in early January Nancy Pelosi pressed for specifics for Mark Milley. She wanted to know what the generals had done to help her. She wanted to know if they were doing things that were illegal, taking control of the military from civilian elected leaders and Mark Milley didnt blush. He confirmed they had done just that. Maam Milley told Nancy Pelosi, I assure you. We have checks and balances in the system yeah they are written into the constitution. According to the
post, some of those checks and balances he referred to involved undermining the elected presidents authority to choose the director of the CIA interesting. A lot of focus on the CIA tells you what kind of power they have when the president, reportedly considering firing, who runs the CIA and replacing her in the closing days of his administration. We now know that Milley pressured the chief of staff not to do that asked what the hell is going on here. Would you guys doing this? Is lunacy not how the government should work? The chief should not be having this conversation. He should leave if he cant keep his views to himself. That quote alone is grounds for Mark Milleys, immediate firing from his job. No chairman of the joint Chiefs has say over CIA appointees, no one in the military does they cant talk about a threat to our system, and yet the Washington Post thinks its fine, because the
president at the time was talking about election fraud inciting an insurrection scary. We already know that Milley had control of the military long before the election even took place on February 29th of last year, the Trump administration reached a deal with the Taliban to end: U Dot S military involvement in the country. After only twenty years immediately, the Pentagon led by Mark Milley, conspired to kill the deal which they are not allowed to do under our constitution, but they did it anyway. According to reporting by the gray zone with startling, quickness and Pentagon leadership exploited, the open ended terms of the cease fire to derail the implementation of the agreement. No informed person denies that have been. It did. Mckenzie testified before Congress to be determined by conditions on the ground, meaning the decision will be made not by civilian leaders but by the Pentagon again threat to democracy. Anyone
there it is acting unilaterally. The Pentagon launched more than thirty drone attacks and eight night raids against the Taliban, and within weeks the peace deal was dead. They killed it. Voters had no say in this: they operated completely independently a little scarier and then the Qanon shaman. The same justification that Mark Milley used later in late, twenty million two hundred and two thousand and twenty to overrule Donald Trum order to pull out of Afghanistan. Afghanistan, Milley was told the president was only possible to remove half of all forces there. Not all no one in the media seems concerned about any of this affect the Washington Post, which supports authoritarianism, is already published. An op ed, saying that Mark Milley is a hero. There are nazis amongst us. You, therefore, we need to get rid of the filibuster. Follow that logic. They also trying to prove that Mark Milley smiled at Michelle Obama when Joe Biden was getting inaugurated. The question is: why is Mark Milley still in command of
the? U dot S military.
Transcript generated on 2021-07-17.