"Late Friday night, the former president of the United States—and a leading candidate to be the next president—insinuated that America's top general deserves to be put to death. That extraordinary sentence would be unthinkable in any other rich democracy. But Donald Trump, on his social-media network, Truth Social, wrote that Mark Milley's phone call to reassure China in the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, was "an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH." (The phone call was, in fact, explicitly authorized by Trump-administration officials.) Trump’s threats against Milley came after The Atlantics publication of a profile of Milley, by this magazine's editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who detailed the ways in which Milley attempted to protect the Constitution from Trump."
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Military leaders from the United StatesCommanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff of the United States ArmyUnited States Army peoplePeople from BostonChairmen of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff
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Brian Klaas "Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley", The Atlantic (25 September 2023)
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