WASHINGTON -- Gen. Mark A. Milley was never meant to be President Donald Trump's top military adviser.Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had sent him to the White House in late 2018 to interview for the top U.S. military post across the Atlantic, with its grand title: supreme allied commander Europe. Mattis
WASHINGTON — Gen. Mark A. Milley was never meant to be President Donald Trump’s top military adviser.
“Milley should not have walked over to the church with Trump,” Michael Hayden, the retired Air Force general who has directed both the National Security Agency and the CIA, said on Twitter, noting that he “was appalled to see him in his battle dress.” The general went face to face with his boss Monday during a heated discussion in the Oval Office over whether to send troops into the streets, according to people in the room. He argued that the scattered fires and looting in some places were dwarfed by peaceful protests and should be handled by the states, which command local law enforcement and the National Guard.
Whatever the case, the video, broadcast repeatedly, shows Trump, flanked by Milley in the combat fatigues he wears every day to work, and a group of mostly white men crossing a park that had just been cleared of people protesting the killing of a black man after a white police officer knelt on his neck for close to nine minutes.
Speaking to troops in Afghanistan in November, Trump expressed his usual suspicion of education, in comments about Milley’s academic pedigree. “You know, he went to Princeton,” Trump said. “And he went to Columbia. I’m not sure — was that a good thing or a bad? I don’t know.” Milley, who turns 62 this month, has a cordial relationship with Esper, 56, but officials who have attended meetings with the two say Milley, a four-star general who has earned both Ranger and Army Special Forces tabs and commanded troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, sometimes treats Esper like the junior Army officer he once was.
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