Trump in a recent social media post lashed out at Milley over the calls, saying Milley committed “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war betwe…
“Frankly what Donald Trump said about him in that tweet, about treason and death, was utterly inexcusable,” Mike Pence said at a national security and foreign policy forum at Washington’s Georgetown University.WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday criticized his boss-turned-rival, Donald Trump for calling retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a traitor over phone calls he made to China in the final stormy months of Trump’s presidency.
Trump in a recent social media post lashed out at Milley over the calls, saying Milley committed “an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act.” “America is the leader of the free world. If we’re not leading the free world, the free world is not being led,” he said.
And he’s criticized entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who has argued the U.S. should end its support for Ukraine so that it can ally with Russia against China.
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