Chris Miller tenure as Donald Trump’s defence secretary was a brief 72 days. He’s now considered a possibility to return to the job in a second Trump administration.
Chris Miller says he took the job as Donald Trump’s last defence secretary “scared to death because I listened to all the press that he was batshit, like unhinged”, Miller tells me.
Then he set out some of the costs: “I said, ‘we’re probably going to look at losing four to six of those planes, with pilots. Alright, that’s what we pay those kids for. I mean, this is war, bad shit happens. So I’m not trying to jam you like, people are going to die. Of course they’re going to die’.”
It was November 12, 2020. Trump had been incensed by a report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran had increased its enriched uranium stockpile – since Trump had abrogated the US nuclear agreement with Iran, Tehran was no longer limited in how much uranium it could enrich.Betrayal: The Final Act in the Trump ShowBut we might be only halfway through the Trump show, depending on the November 5 election, and perhaps only partway through Miller’s role in it.
The controversial would-be manifesto for an incoming Trump administration – Project 2025 – invited Miller to author the section on defence. In that chapter, he proposed an ideological purge of senior officers who advocate critical race theory, climate change “and other polarising policies”. Trump has disavowed Project 2025.Around the table in the Oval Office in November 2020, Miller wasn’t the only one to counsel Trump against bombing Iran.
Second, he predicted that a president Trump would defend the Philippines and Taiwan against China. He said Trump “freakin’ hates bullies”, and China was the biggest of them all.
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