Former President Trump called retired Gen. Mark Milley, former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a “loser” Wednesday after a hearing on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Mark Milley is a loser who shamed us in Afghanistan and elsewhere!” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
This is far from the first time Trump has lashed out at his appointee.
Milley has become a critic of Trump and referred to him as a “wannabe dictator” in his retirement speech in September. The week before that speech, Trump accused Milley of treason in a Truth Social post, seeming to reference calls made by Milley to China for reassurance at the end of Trump’s term.
“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Trump’s post read. “A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!!”
On Tuesday, Milley responded to Trump’s September post at the House Foreign Affairs hearing on the Afghanistan withdrawal, saying he doesn’t “agree with the comments, but it’s a free country, and people can say what they want.”
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