Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly told retired Gen. Mark Milley that he is revoking his personal security detail and security clearance following allegations he undermined the chain of command during President Donald Trump’s first term.
Multiple senior administration officials <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-pulling-gen-milleys-security-detail-clearance-panel-may-face-demotion-retirement">confirmed</a> to Fox News that the Pentagon will remove a second portrait of Milley, meaning his image will no longer be displayed in the building. They also said a newly convened review board will determine whether enough evidence exists to strip him of a star for alleged attempts to “undermine the chain of command.”
One official reportedly said, “There is a new era of accountability in the Defense Department under President Trump’s leadership—and that’s exactly what the American people expect.” The first portrait of Milley was taken down on Inauguration Day last week, just after President Joe Biden granted him a preemptive pardon in one of his final actions in office.
Gen. Milley had been afforded added protective measures after threats were leveled by Iran following the 2020 U.S. drone strike targeting General Qasem Soleimani. The extra security detail was also extended to other top officials, such as John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, following threats of Iranian retaliation. Shortly after President Trump’s inauguration, the security details for these officials were revoked, with many GOP lawmakers expressing concern over Trump’s decision.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, stated that he wished the president would “revisit” the decision affecting John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and Brian Hook, who served in high-profile national security roles and likely still had legitimate safety concerns.
In addition to serving as the Army’s chief of staff from 2015 to 2019, Milley was still on active duty as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff when he reportedly conveyed private misgivings about President Trump in a March 6, 2023, conversation. According to a newly published book titled &#8220;War,&#8221; Gen. Milley told author Bob Woodward that he believed the then-commander-in-chief was “fascist to the core!”
Another work, &#8220;Peril,&#8221; by Woodward and Robert Costa, separately claimed that Milley called his Chinese counterpart twice during Trump’s first term to help maintain calm between the two nuclear-armed nations.

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‘New Era Of Accountability’: Hegseth Strips Gen. Mark Milley’s Security Detail

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Donald Trump

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Pentagon

Pete Hegseth

Politics

President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced Monday night that he was removing thousands of federal appointees of former President Joe Biden from his administration. 
Trump said that he would eliminate anyone who did not support his “Make America Great Again Agenda.” In a statement on Truth Social, he said four individuals, including former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, had already been removed, and more announcements were coming. 
“Our first day in the White House is not over yet! My Presidential Personnel Office is actively in the process of identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration, who are not aligned with our vision to Make America Great Again,” Trump said. 
“Let this serve as Official Notice of Dismissal for these 4 individuals, with many more, coming soon: Jose Andres from the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Center for Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President’s Export Council—YOU’RE FIRED!” he added. 
Hook previously served as special envoy to Iran under Trump. 
At the end of the first Trump administration, Milley reportedly made secret calls to China, where he promised to warn Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army if Trump ordered a preemptive strike on China. Milley also was a harsh critic of Trump after the January 6 riot and was issued a preemptive pardon by Biden on Monday.
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In addition to firing political appointees, Trump signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/restoring-accountability-to-policy-influencing-positions-within-the-federal-workforce/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">executive order</a> on Monday to make it easier to terminate federal employees in policy-making roles. He said this was necessary because of “numerous and well-documented cases of career Federal employees resisting and undermining the policies and directives of their executive leadership.”
“Accountability is essential for all Federal employees, but it is especially important for those who are in policy-influencing positions,” Trump wrote in an executive order. “Principles of good administration, therefore, necessitate action to restore accountability to the career civil service, beginning with positions of a confidential, policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character.”
Trump issued dozens of executive orders on topics ranging from border security to energy and signed one that reversed nearly 80 Biden-era policies.
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The Inauguration Of Donald J. Trump As The 47th President

‘YOU’RE FIRED’: Trump To Remove Thousands Of Biden Appointees

Executive Orders

Federal Government

Joe Biden

Trump Administration

Now-former President Joe Biden spent his last few hours in office issuing blanket pardons — which he swore in 2020 that he would not do — to a few select people, most of whom he simultaneously claimed were not guilty of any wrongdoing.
While a number of critics pointed out the fact that Biden had gone back on his word, most voiced concerns about who had received those pardons and what that said about them — and about Biden.
&#8220;Biden pardons Milley, Fauci, and J6 Committee. Absolutely Insane and Absolutely Predictable,&#8221; podcaster Tim Pool posted.
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Biden pardons Milley, Fauci, and J6 Committee
Absolutely Insane and Absolutely Predictable <a href="https://t.co/VgPld782r5">pic.twitter.com/VgPld782r5</a>
&mdash; Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1881327416821575889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Drew Holden with American Compass noted the disparity in the way that The New York Times had covered the last-minute pardons issued by Biden compared to those issued by President Donald Trump in January 2020.
The former were described by NYT reporter Peter Baker as being issued &#8220;to head off politically driven prosecutions.&#8221; The latter, as described by Maggie Haberman and Michael Schmidt, were intended &#8220;to override courts, juries and prosecutors to apply his own standard of justice for his allies.&#8221;
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NYT on Biden pardons // NYT on Trump <a href="https://t.co/KKVBXxTaCi">pic.twitter.com/KKVBXxTaCi</a>
&mdash; Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1881349715654307906?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Michael Shellenberger took particular issue with the pardon issued to Fauci, saying that any investigations into the origins of the COVID pandemic — and any role Fauci may have played — needed to continue.
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&#8220;Biden pardoned Fauci. He says it’s not an admission of guilt. But if Fauci were innocent, no pardon would be needed. The evidence suggests Fauci helped create the Covid pandemic, and then covered it up. The investigation must go forward. All Covid &amp; Fauci Files must be released,&#8221; he wrote.
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Biden pardoned Fauci. He says it’s not an admission of guilt. But if Fauci were innocent, no pardon would be needed. The evidence suggests Fauci helped create the Covid pandemic, and then covered it up. The investigation must go forward. All Covid &amp; Fauci Files must be released. <a href="https://t.co/FkCp0jjMHt">https://t.co/FkCp0jjMHt</a>
&mdash; Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) <a href="https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1881318348858040351?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Attorney Mike Davis shared a reminder that the Biden administration had once painted a very different picture of what a pardon might mean — and what it might say about the person who chose to accept one.
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&#8220;Biden Justice Department tells court an acceptance of pardon is &#8216;a confession of guilt,'&#8221; he said.
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Biden Justice Department tells court an acceptance of pardon is “a confession of guilt.” <a href="https://t.co/TGCA0EUa2e">pic.twitter.com/TGCA0EUa2e</a>
&mdash; 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrddmia/status/1881354857963221468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Ask yourself this: Why would Joe Biden pardon Fauci if he wasn&#8217;t a criminal who should be locked up for his lies, negligence, &amp; greed that killed innocent Americans? Biden was already going out in shame and disgrace, but this is a new low,&#8221; women&#8217;s sports advocate Riley Gaines added.
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Ask yourself this: Why would Joe Biden pardon Fauci if he wasn&#39;t a criminal who should be locked up for his lies, negligence, &amp; greed that killed innocent Americans? 
Biden was already going out in shame and disgrace, but this is a new low. <a href="https://t.co/GW8fHyVT6f">pic.twitter.com/GW8fHyVT6f</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1881319094785650727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Fauci and Milley pardons are particular indictments of their behind the scenes work, and the American people deserve to know if they lobbied for them personally from an addled and mentally absent chief executive,&#8221; conservative journalist Ben Domenech posted.
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The Fauci and Milley pardons are particular indictments of their behind the scenes work, and the American people deserve to know if they lobbied for them personally from an addled and mentally absent chief executive.
&mdash; Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1881320708900634754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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He went on to challenge any journalists who spoke to those who had received pardons to ask specifically about whether they had sought those pardons out: &#8220;The next interviews that Fauci, Milley, or J6 Committee members give, all must be asked if they lobbied for these pardons personally and if so, who they lobbied. It&#8217;s journalistic malpractice to not ask that question.&#8221;
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The next interviews that Fauci, Milley, or J6 Committee members give, all must be asked if they lobbied for these pardons personally and if so, who they lobbied. It&#39;s journalistic malpractice to not ask that question.
&mdash; Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) <a href="https://twitter.com/bdomenech/status/1881322938320011598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So with Joe Biden pardoning Mark Milley, a reminder that Milley was a willing &amp; public participant in the scandalous cover-up of Biden’s lack of physical &amp; mental fitness to be president,&#8221; author Jerry Dunleavy said.
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So with Joe Biden pardoning Mark Milley, a reminder that Milley was a willing &amp; public participant in the scandalous cover-up of Biden’s lack of physical &amp; mental fitness to be president.<a href="https://t.co/6wMoWGpv5n">pic.twitter.com/6wMoWGpv5n</a>
&mdash; Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1881323977228038622?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And from the End Wokeness account: &#8220;10 days ago, Biden said he will only pardon individuals who committed crimes. Today he pardoned Fauci, Milley, Cheney, EVERYONE on the J/6th Committee.&#8221;
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10 days ago, Biden said he will only pardon individuals who committed crimes. 
Today he pardoned Fauci, Milley, Cheney, EVERYONE on the J/6th Committee. <a href="https://t.co/VsJfysYSDQ">pic.twitter.com/VsJfysYSDQ</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1881345527973073009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Biden’s fitting final act. He pardoned his grifter family. Both brothers, sister, and all three in-laws going all the way back to January 1, 2014, the year the Ukraine grift began and the China grift accelerated. Pre-emptive pardons. Total admission of guilt,&#8221; The New York Post&#8217;s Miranda Devine added.
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Biden’s fitting final act. He pardoned his grifter family. Both brothers, sister, and all three in-laws going all the way back to January 1, 2014, the year the Ukraine grift began and the China grift accelerated. Pre-emptive pardons. Total admission of guilt. <a href="https://t.co/MPx6iV0hYN">pic.twitter.com/MPx6iV0hYN</a>
&mdash; Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) <a href="https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1881413307443351824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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OutKick&#8217;s Clay Travis posted one final reminder: &#8220;In December of 2020 Joe Biden said you wouldn’t see any pre-emptive pardons in his administration. All Biden did was lie for four years.&#8221;
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In December of 2020 Joe Biden said you wouldn’t see any pre-emptive pardons in his administration. All Biden did was lie for four years: <a href="https://t.co/kuOwf9aXmg">pic.twitter.com/kuOwf9aXmg</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1881350181398221200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Absolutely Insane And Absolutely Predictable’: People Respond To Biden’s 11th-Hour Pardons

'Absolutely Insane And Absolutely Predictable': People Respond To Biden's 11th-Hour Pardons

Anthony Fauci

January 6 Committee

Media

Pardon

Rachel Vindman complained on Monday that her husband, impeachment witness Alexander Vindman, had not been added to the list of now-former President Joe Biden&#8217;s extensive list of eleventh-hour pardons on his way out of the White House.
Following the news that Biden had pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and nearly everyone involved with the January 6 Select Committee — including former Reps. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) — Vindman took to Meta&#8217;s Threads to make her disappointment known.
&#8220;<span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x1ji0vk5 x18bv5gf x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xp07o12 x1yc453h xat24cr xdj266r" dir="auto">BREAKING: President Biden just pardoned:<span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x1ji0vk5 x18bv5gf x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xp07o12 x1yc453h xat24cr x1anpbxc" dir="auto">* General Mark Milley * Dr. Anthony Fauci * Jan. 6 Committee members of Congress and staffers * The police officers who testified before the Jan. 6 Committee,&#8221; journalist Kyle Griffin posted via Threads. &#8220;<span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x1ji0vk5 x18bv5gf x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xp07o12 x1yc453h xat24cr x1anpbxc" dir="auto">Biden says these pardons are not an acknowledgment of wrongdoing.&#8221;
Vindman <a href="https://www.threads.net/@rachelvindman/post/DFDCySGp6Hm?xmt=AQGzyMUZDJ_z2At5Fmrxs_4WKZRm-99Mx96bDDpa4wDajvk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, &#8220;Breaking: my husband is on a list of enemies and they talk about him all the time but he wasn’t offered sh**.&#8221;
Vindman shared another similar post, saying: &#8220;<span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x1ji0vk5 x18bv5gf x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xp07o12 x1yc453h xat24cr xdj266r" dir="auto">Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed. <span class="x1lliihq x1plvlek xryxfnj x1n2onr6 x1ji0vk5 x18bv5gf x193iq5w xeuugli x1fj9vlw x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x x1i0vuye xjohtrz xo1l8bm xp07o12 x1yc453h xat24cr x1anpbxc" dir="auto">I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.&#8221;
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She also responded to someone who asked whether her husband had requested a pardon, and her answer did nothing to clarify whether he had.
&#8220;Hi, Karen, where did you hear Alex didn’t request a pardon? Do you know me? Also, there is wide reporting many who received pardons were surprised and didn’t request them,&#8221; <a href="https://www.threads.net/@rachelvindman/post/DFDaSAoR9fV?xmt=AQGzlm3R22mEP_-wFe7-pfRLcr3QsaYhZIm5v3VUmBJBgx8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vindman said</a>.
A report from <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/online/betrayal-alex-vindmans-wife-fumes-about-her-husband-getting-shut-out-of-last-minute-biden-pardons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mediaite</a> suggested that the Vindmans had, in fact, reached out to the Biden White House about a potential pardon but had not heard anything in response.
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Just a few hours later, the White House announced that Biden had issued another set of pardons for several of his own close relatives, including James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden.
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Biden just pardoned his family in the way out the door. As well as Cheney, Fauci, Milley, et al. They are as rotten to the core and corrupt as we always knew they were. <a href="https://t.co/gpDfThFKQn">pic.twitter.com/gpDfThFKQn</a>
&mdash; Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisStigall/status/1881387139335909609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Just weeks after then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden was declared the winner over President Donald Trump in 2020, he <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/12/03/biden-harris-intv-trump-pardons-justice-department-tapper-preview-sot-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper that Trump&#8217;s reported consideration of preemptive pardons concerned him.
Biden and then-Vice President-elect Kamala Harris sat down for an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/12/03/biden-harris-intv-trump-pardons-justice-department-tapper-preview-sot-vpx.cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Tapper in early December 2020. Biden was asked about Trump potentially issuing preemptive pardons for his closest allies and himself — a move Trump never made. Biden responded by promising that the American people would not &#8220;see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons.&#8221;
&#8220;President Trump is reportedly considering a wave of preemptive pardons. &#8230; Does this concern you?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;Well, it concerns me in terms of what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world looks at us as a nation of laws and justice,&#8221; Biden said.
&#8220;Now in terms of the pardons, you&#8217;re not going to see in our administration that kind of approach to pardons,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Nor are you going to see in our administration the approach to making policy by tweets. You know, it&#8217;s going to be a totally different way to which we approach the justice system.&#8221;
Biden&#8217;s comments from four years ago directly contradict his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-issues-last-minute-pardons-for-fauci-mark-milley-and-jan-6-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">last-minute action</a> on Monday morning to issue preemptive pardons for Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, and members of the Democrat-run January 6 Committee. Later in the day — just before Trump was sworn in — Biden also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-biden-issues-more-pardons-for-his-family-during-final-minutes-of-presidency" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned</a> his brother, James B. Biden; James Biden’s wife, Sara Jones Biden; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; Valerie Owens’ husband, John T. Owens; and his brother, Francis W. Biden.
The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-trump-fauci-milley-pardons-january-6-3cba287f89051513fb48d7ae700ae747" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> the preemptive pardons an &#8220;extraordinary use of the powers of the presidency,&#8221; adding that Biden &#8220;has used the power in the broadest and most untested way possible: to pardon those who have not even been investigated.&#8221;
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The outgoing president said in a statement that his preemptive pardons for Fauci, Milley, and the J6 Committee &#8220;should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense.&#8221;
&#8220;Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country,&#8221; he added.
Biden&#8217;s action on Inauguration Day marks the second time the president has gone back on his word to issue pardons before the end of his term. In early December, the president <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/president-biden-pardons-hunter-claims-son-was-singled-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardoned</a> his son, Hunter Biden, after promising he wouldn&#8217;t take such a step. As Biden pledged to the public that he would not pardon Hunter after his conviction in June, the president was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pardoning-hunter-was-on-the-table-when-joe-biden-said-he-wouldnt-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> discussing a pardon behind the scenes.
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President Joe Biden issued pardons on Monday morning to Dr. Anthony Fauci, former U.S. Army General Mark Milley, and members of the Democrat-run January 6 committee just hours before President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s inauguration. 
Both Fauci and Milley were vicious critics of Trump, and previous reporting indicated that Biden would issue the pardons to stave off any potential criminal charges that might be brought against them during a second Trump administration.
“The issuance of these pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be misconstrued as an admission of guilt for any offense,” Biden said in a statement. “Our nation owes these public servants a debt of gratitude for their tireless commitment to our country.”
Fauci has been criticized for his handling of COVID and the lab leak theory, as well as comments before Congress about gain-of-function research.
 At the end of the first Trump administration, Milley reportedly made secret calls to China, where he promised to warn Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army if Trump ordered a preemptive strike on China. In a statement after the pardons were announced, Milley said he was &#8220;deeply grateful for the President’s action today.&#8221;
&#8220;After forty-three years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation, protecting and defending the Constitution, I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I do not want to put my family, my friends, and those with whom I served through the resulting distraction, expense, and anxiety.&#8221;
The January 6 Committee members receiving a pardon include former representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the only Republican members. Both Cheney and Kinzinger were harsh critics of Trump and voted to impeach him over the January 6 riot. Additionally, the pardon applied to &#8220;U.S. Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan police officers who testified before the Select Committee.&#8221;
“These are exceptional circumstances, and I cannot in good conscience do nothing,” Biden said. “Even when individuals have done nothing wrong — and in fact have done the right thing — and will ultimately be exonerated, the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.”
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Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) ripped into Biden over the pardons, saying they were unconstitutional.
&#8220;The guy who claimed he would &#8216;protect norms&#8217; continues to bulldoze them and the Constitution until the bitter end. Biden truly is one of the worst Presidents in American history and will only be remembered as the guy between Trump’s two terms,&#8221; he posted on X. &#8220;Biden has previously been criticized for his wide-reaching pardon of his son Hunter, and top Democrats said last year they would oppose preemptive pardons.&#8221;
“I strongly oppose preemptive pardons. First of all, it’s in some ways going to be perceived as an implicit acknowledgment of guilt,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said last month. “And people should know that walking into a courtroom and making charges is far from proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Retired Army General Mark Milley — who most recently served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — has accepted teaching positions at two prestigious universities.
According to a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/02/13/retired-mark-milley-georgetown-princeton-faculties" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Axios, Milley will be instructing students at both Princeton University — his own alma mater — and Georgetown University in subjects relating to national security.
Milley attended Princeton, where he graduated in 1980 and received his commission through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. His return to the school will see him acting as a Charles and Marie Robertson visiting professor through the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).
According to a statement from Princeton University, Milley &#8220;will serve as a guest lecturer, meet with students, engage with alumni and faculty, and provide input on the School&#8217;s Security Studies Ph.D. program.&#8221;
Dean Amaney Jamal praised the decision, saying that Milley&#8217;s &#8220;experience in the nation&#8217;s capital as well as abroad in conflict zones&#8221; would provide excellent context for his students in the coming year. His appointment at Princeton is set to expire in June of 2025.
Milley&#8217;s tenure as Joint Chiefs Chair was marked by a number of high-profile clashes with former President Donald Trump, his involvement in the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-ultimate-disrespect-gold-star-families-trash-biden-admin-over-afghanistan-withdrawal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disastrous withdrawal</a> from Afghanistan in 2021, and several contentious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Capitol Hill hearings</a> regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives within the military.
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&#8220;I’ve read Mao Tse-Tung; I’ve read Karl Marx; I’ve read Lenin. That doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding, having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?&#8221; Milley said during a 2021 hearing.
&#8220;And I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers, of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there.&#8221;

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The latest recruiting numbers from the United States Army have shown a precipitous drop-off in white recruits over the last several years – and among other factors, some insiders are blaming &#8220;partisan attacks against the military for its efforts to recruit and support a diverse force.&#8221;
According to a <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> published Wednesday by Military.com, white recruits were down 6% from 2022 to 2023 alone — and had dropped off by double digits since 2018, when just over half (56.4%) of all Army recruits were classified as &#8220;white.&#8221; In 2023, 44% of all Army recruits were classified as &#8220;white.&#8221;
In real numbers, there were 44,042 white recruits in 2018 — and that fell to just 25,070 in 2023. Recruiting numbers have decreased overall during that same period, resulting in the Army <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-pronouns-less-recruits-u-s-military-facing-unprecedented-recruiting-crisis-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failing to meet</a> its recruiting goal of 55,000 in 2023 — but non-white demographics have seen increases by percentage over those same years.
Between 2018 and 2023, black recruits are up 4% (from 20% to 24%), and Hispanic recruits have risen 7% (from 17% to 24%). The overall numbers have not risen dramatically, but because white recruits have decreased in such numbers, other demographics now make up a larger percentage of the overall recruiting pool.
The Army has been working to encourage recruiting efforts and told Military.com that they could not nail down one specific cause — instead, they &#8220;pointed to a confluence of issues for Army recruiting, including partisan scrutiny of the service, a growing obesity epidemic and an underfunded public education system.&#8221;
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One other factor, they told the outlet, was the increase in &#8220;partisan&#8221; criticism of the military overall as it worked to embrace and implement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)</a> into both recruitment and retention across all branches of service.
The suggestion was that conservative media outlets and legislators, by attacking the military&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/female-military-recruit-forced-to-shower-with-two-trans-identifying-men-considered-resigning-senator-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">adoption of &#8220;woke&#8221; policies</a>, had telegraphed to a &#8220;mostly white audience&#8221; that the Army was less attractive a career option than it had been in years past.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a level of prestige in parts of conservative America with service that has degraded. Now, you can say you don&#8217;t want to join, for whatever reason, or bad-mouth the service without any cultural guilt associated for the first time in those areas,&#8221; one Army official told the outlet.

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Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ive-been-shot-at-combat-veteran-blows-up-msnbc-guests-claim-that-florida-is-a-terrorist-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Waltz</a> (R-FL) unloaded Thursday on outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/incidents-happen-gen-milley-wont-consider-russia-dropping-u-s-drone-an-act-of-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mark Milley</a>, panning a &#8220;puff piece&#8221; published by The Atlantic and adding, &#8220;His retirement couldn&#8217;t come soon enough.&#8221;
Waltz, a retired Colonel in the Army National Guard and veteran Green Beret, aired his grievances with Milley — who is set to retire at the end of the month — in a lengthy and detailed thread posted to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.
&#8220;Just read the Atlantic puff piece on Mark Milley&#8217;s exit interview polishing his legacy with the DC media while criticizing elected officials in uniform. His retirement couldn&#8217;t come soon enough,&#8221; Waltz said.
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Just read the Atlantic puff piece on Mark Milley&#39;s exit interview polishing his legacy with the DC media while criticizing elected officials in uniform. 
His retirement couldn&#39;t come soon enough.
&mdash; Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1704976921824473266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The decorated combat veteran began by listing several ways he believed the U.S. military had strayed from its core values and mission under Milley&#8217;s leadership, saying, &#8220;Under Milley, our military has become politicized and trust in the military is in free fall. His &#8216;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-less-about-white-rage-more-about-not-losing-wars-hillbilly-elegy-author-rips-top-u-s-general" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Rage</a>&#8216; outburst — in uniform — was an enormous disservice to our troops as he defended CRT indoctrination, a Marxist theory, before Congress.&#8221;
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We have overwhelming evidence of indoctrination taking place within our ranks and at our military academies. 
Insane DEI programs are being forced on our troops that is infecting the merit based system.
&mdash; Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1704977377342726146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We have overwhelming evidence of indoctrination taking place within our ranks and at our military academies. Insane DEI programs are being forced on our troops that is infecting the merit based system,&#8221; Waltz continued.
He concluded with the ways he believed Milley — in coordination with President Joe Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin — had allowed for a number of failures in national security.
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&#8220;He’s also stood alongside Joe Biden and Lloyd Austin as our national security has become weaker: Worst military debacle since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-this-is-not-saigon-cnn-its-worse-than-saigon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Saigon</a>; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-frantically-worked-to-finalize-climate-plan-during-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-emails-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Afghanistan withdrawal</a>; Worst military <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-pronouns-less-recruits-u-s-military-facing-unprecedented-recruiting-crisis-under-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recruitment crisis</a> since Vietnam; Chinese <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-information-revealed-about-chinese-spy-balloon-that-crossed-u-s-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spy balloon</a> drifting across America; Failure to deter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bill-maher-torches-biden-why-did-putin-not-invade-ukraine-when-trump-was-in-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian invasion</a> of Ukraine.&#8221;
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&mdash; Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1704980532155580476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Congressman And Green Beret Explodes On Mark Milley: 'His Retirement Couldn't Come Soon Enough'

General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, insisted that he was not sure what the word “woke” means.
Milley spoke on Sunday with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who <a href="https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/fzgps/date/2023-09-17/segment/01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “You talk about how the military is not woke. How the military officers should be reading Karl Marx,” then asked, “Is the U.S. military too woke?”
“No, not at all,” Milley initially responded, then continued, “You know, I&#8217;m not even sure what that word truly means.”
“But I would tell you that the military I see is a military that is exceptionally strong, it&#8217;s powerful, it&#8217;s ready,” Milley declared. “In fact, our readiness rate is — the way we measure readiness is better now than they&#8217;ve been in years.”
“This military is a lot of things, but woke it is not,” Milley claimed. “So, I take exception to that. I think that people say those things for reasons that are their own reasons. But it&#8217;s not true. It&#8217;s not accurate. And it is not to say, by the way, that there is — there is not some things out there that are — could be fit into that category. But I don&#8217;t think it certainly is — it is not a broad-brush description of the U.S. military as it exists today.”
In June 2021, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/highest-ranking-u-s-military-official-defends-teaching-crt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testifying</a> before the House Armed Services Committee on President Biden’s 2022 budget request, Milley defended the reading of Critical Race Theory (CRT) texts by the United States military, asserting, “I&#8217;ve read Mao Tse-Tung; I&#8217;ve read Karl Marx; I&#8217;ve read Lenin. That doesn&#8217;t make me a communist.” Milley claimed he “personally” found it “offensive that we are accusing the United States military, our general officers, our commissioned, non-commissioned officers, of being &#8216;woke&#8217; because we&#8217;re studying some theories that are out there.”
Regarding “white rage,” Milley said, “But I do think it&#8217;s important actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read and the United States Military Academy is a university and it is important that we train and we understand, and I want to understand white rage and I&#8217;m white.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/09/United-States-Air-Force-Academy-42.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in September 2022 that Air Force cadets had been instructed not to use gender-specific terms like “Mom” or “Dad” and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-military-forget-mom-dad-use-woke-substitutes-instead-air-force-cadets-told" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replace</a> such terms with words such as “parent” or “caregiver.” That instruction was featured at the Air Force Academy in Colorado as part of cadets’ “Diversity and inclusion (D&amp;I) training.” “Our leaders have deemed D&amp;I a warfighting imperative,” the cadets were told.
In July 2021, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) started by saying to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, “Mr. Secretary, I have received, along with Congressman Crenshaw, several hundred whistleblower complaints about Pentagon extremist and diversity training. I just want to share a small selection of what your troops are saying.”
He followed by citing reports of a military history training session being replaced with mandatory training on police brutality, white privilege, and systemic racism; instructions to a member of Special Operations that “The U.S. Special Operations community is racist”; a general officer telling an Army officer that “the entire U.S. Army is racist”; a midshipman at the Naval Academy attesting that classmates were calling America a “fundamentally racist place” and were not challenged by school administrators; an airman saying their unit was forced into a racist exercise called a “privilege walk”; a Space Force officer saying an African-American servicemember said after the training that she would never have joined the military had she known that it was such a hotbed of racism; and a white airman who said he didn’t sign up to be indoctrinated, then filed separation paperwork. 
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Gen. Mark Milley

Joint Chiefs Of Staff Chairman Milley Protests: I’m Not Sure What Woke Means

Wokeness

Gen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/mark-milley">Mark Milley</a>, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he did not receive any &#8220;illegal&#8221; orders after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/2020-election">2020 election</a>.
Martha Raddatz, anchor of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week,&#8221; noted that <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/15/joint-chiefs-staff-planned-stop-trump-coup-over-election-claims/7975643002/">reports</a> &#8220;abounded&#8221; saying that Milley worried former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Donald Trump</a> might try to use the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/military">military</a> to stay in power.
&#8220;Were you concerned at any time that you might receive an illegal order after Election Day?&#8221; she asked the general <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYFr5JgVvhc">in an interview that aired on Sunday</a>.
&#8220;I never did receive an illegal order,&#8221; Milley responded. Pressed again if he was at least concerned about it, the top military official added, &#8220;No, you know, I argued the case at various times for alternative courses of action. Never received an illegal order.&#8221;
Reports about Milley and other military officials fearing that Trump might attempt a coup date back more than two years.
At the time, Trump fired back with a statement that said, &#8220;If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley.&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/15/mark-milley-feared-coup-after-trump-lost-to-biden-book.html">He also said</a>, &#8220;I&#8217;m not into coups!&#8221;
Trump is now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-2024-presidential-polling-trump-rises-above-biden-again">running a 2024 campaign</a> seeking another term in the White House, possibly leading to a 2020 rematch against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>. Trump is doing so while facing indictments in four criminal cases, including two focused on alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
The former president has denied any wrongdoing, pleaded not guilty to the charges he faces, and claims that politically motivated prosecutors are conducting a “witch hunt” against him.
Milley, who is set to retire in the coming weeks as his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joint-chiefs-nominee-knocks-tubervilles-hold-on-military-promotions">term as chairman</a> of the Joint Chiefs of Staff comes to an end, also said in his interview with ABC that he is not concerned about the prospect of another January 6.
&#8220;No, I&#8217;m not nervous about it,&#8221; Milley said, adding later, &#8220;I don&#8217;t get nervous about a lot of things. I&#8217;ve seen a lot of combat. So I&#8217;m beyond that actually.&#8221;
Pressed on his level of confidence, Milley added, &#8220;I am confident that the United States and the democracy in this country will prevail and the rule of law will prevail. I&#8217;m absolutely confident of that. And these institutions are built to be strong, resilient, and to adapt to the times, and I&#8217;m 100 percent confident we&#8217;ll be fine.&#8221;

Milley Says He Never Received ‘Illegal’ Order From Trump After 2020 Election

Milley Says He Never Received 'Illegal' Order From Trump After 2020 Election

2020 Election

A number of Gold Star family members laid into President Joe Biden and members of his administration, calling them out over the disastrous exit from Afghanistan that took the lives of their loved ones.
At an event in Escondido, California — hosted by Mayor Dane White and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) — relatives of the thirteen service members killed by the suicide bomber at the Kabul airport on August 26, 2021, joined together to speak publicly about their experiences.
Issa introduced the event, billed as the Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, saying that while they had officially allotted five minutes for each family member who wanted to speak, no one was going to enforce time limits as long as the families had something to share.
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RIGHT NOW: I am in Escondido where Mayor <a href="https://twitter.com/Dwhite1904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Dwhite1904</a> is hosting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/C48?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#C48</a>’s <a href="https://twitter.com/repdarrellissa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@repdarrellissa</a> for an Afghanistan Gold Star Families Public Forum, where family members of those killed during Biden’s chaotic withdrawal are speaking jointly for the first time
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Issa also made it clear that the ultimate goal was to make sure that such a tragedy never happened again: &#8220;Did they have to die? Could we have done something different? &#8230; I only apologize that we didn’t do it sooner.&#8221;
Then the family members began to speak, and they had little if anything positive to say about Biden and the military leaders who had been a part of the decision-making process during the troop drawdown and withdrawal — and most were absolutely furious that the administration had then insisted the withdrawal had been a &#8220;success.&#8221;
SSG Taylor Hoover&#8217;s mother was among those who spoke, and she said that the blame for her son&#8217;s death rested on Biden, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and others. &#8220;Incompetent, cowards, evil,&#8221; she said.
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Taylor’s concern was immediately apparent when he got to Afghanistan, Kelly says. He warned her of:
“Chaos, lack of communication, no leadership.” “Command cares nothing for us.”
“What kind of disrespect, what kind of hatred for our military, what kind of mess” would have made…
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Hoover&#8217;s father spoke as well, saying that the Biden administration &#8220;did not uphold their end of that contract.&#8221;
&#8220;This didn’t need to happen in the manner that it did,&#8221; he added, saying that leadership had &#8220;made a conscious decision that made a chaotic and frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan.&#8221;
He went on to call out those leaders, saying that it was &#8220;nothing short of disgusting and ignorant&#8221; that they had turned around and claimed that the withdrawal had been a success. &#8220;I’m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley &#8230; and ultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a grown ass man &#8230; You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have more integrity in their little toes than all of them combined.&#8221;
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“I’m calling out Secretary Blinken, Secretary Austin, General Milley,” Whited (who did not give the call to take out the bomber), and “ultimately, the president, and do what our son did: and be a grown ass man.”
“You all need to resign immediately. Our sons and daughters have…
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Nicole Gee&#8217;s mother said she knew no forum would ever bring her daughter back, but her goal in speaking was to make sure that the service members who came afterward would be treated with the respect earned by the 13 who lost their lives that day in Kabul.
&#8220;When our leaders, include the secretary of defense and our commander in chief, called this a ‘success,’… it’s like a knife in the heart,&#8221; she said. &#8220;These deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today. To call it a success is the ultimate disrespect. There were 13 avoidable deaths &#8230; This was not a success. What we’re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it better for the next group.&#8221;
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“These deaths were preventable. My daughter could be with us today.”
“To call it a success is the ultimate disrespect.”
“There were 13 avoidable deaths,” not to mention the wounded. 
“This was not a success.”
“What we’re asking for it to stop the insanity and make it better…
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Dylan Merola&#8217;s mother called Biden &#8220;heartless,&#8221; saying that he had claimed to know how she felt but never once mentioned her son&#8217;s name. &#8220;If they had closed the gate, my son would be alive today,&#8221; she added.
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“How could a worldwide event” just vanish from coverage, she asks
“Everything, even the way my son died, was being covered up.”
A colonel told her she wouldn’t want to see the drone footage. “I had already seen my son’s lifeless body,” who is he to say that?
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&#8220;The commander in chief failed in the oath he took … he failed everybody,&#8221; Humberto Sanchez&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/MatthewFoldi/status/1688617438957699072" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mother said</a>. &#8220;I want the answers, I want the truth &#8230; I want to know this type of failure will not repeat itself again &#8230; I will fight til my last breath to get the truth.&#8221;
Hunter Lopez&#8217;s mother said that she believed there was more to the story — and objected to the notion that it was time to &#8220;turn the page.&#8221;
&#8220;If fault was to be found in someone wearing fatigues and not a suit, they would have been on trial a long time ago,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;We do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book release…as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.&#8221;
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“We do not want a partial truth or truth told in a book release…as Americans, we want this truth. As Gold Star families, we deserve this truth. We deserved it two years ago, and we deserve it today.”
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Rep. Issa has promised to get to the bottom of the issue, saying, &#8220;The Biden Administration lied to every one of these Gold Star families. That’s why we brought them forward. These are the words the White House doesn’t want you to hear.&#8221;
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The Biden Administration lied to every one of these Gold Star families.
That’s why we brought them forward. These are the words the White House doesn’t want you to hear.
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Dignifed Transfer Held For 13 Service Members Killed At Kabul Airport

‘The Ultimate Disrespect’: Gold Star Families Trash Biden Admin Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

Gold Star Families Trash Biden Admin Over Afghanistan Withdrawal

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