The retiring Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman said earlier on Friday that members of the military 'don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator.'
renewed his attacks on retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley after the exiting chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemingly suggested that Trump is a"wannabe dictator."
Milley, who is stepping down from his Trump-appointed role as the nation's highest-ranking military officer on October 1, made the apparent reference to the former president as an aspiring tyrant while delivering his retirement speech at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall in Virginia on Friday. "We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator," Milley said, according to the Associated Press."We don't take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we're willing to die to protect it."
Trump offered an indirect response to Milley's speech in a post to Truth Social a short time later, once again referring to reports claiming that Milley called his Chinese counterpart and promised to warn China of any potential impending attack in 2020. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley is pictured speaking to then-President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2020. Milley suggested in his retirement speech on Friday that Trump was a"wannabe dictator."
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