Just when you think he can go no lower, Donald Trump finds a way. He has lowered the bar to the floor, or deeper, if possible.
For those who may have missed it, Trump wrote on Truth Social about his former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, that the general “turned out to be a Woke train wreck who, if the Fake News reporting is correct, was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!” Trump was referring to a phone call Milley made to his counterpart in China just after the Jan. 6 insurrection (an insurrection Trump himself initiated) to assure him that the United States government was still intact and stable and that we were not going to attack China.
Can you imagine how crazy the U.S. looked from across the ocean at that time? They may have wondered about what the president of the United States was thinking. It seemed a very wise and prudent thing to do to avert a potentially catastrophic response from them.
For Trump to say these things about a general who has served this country in uniform with distinction for many years (and, by extension, anyone who wears a uniform in the name of this country) is disgusting, disrespectful, disgraceful, out of line, and any number of other adjectives you can think of.
Trump is already a disgrace to this country and has already done more than any other single person in this country to create all the polarization, infighting, and chaotic political climate rampant today. He faces 91 federal indictments, as well as the upcoming civil trial in New York. If found guilty on any one of these indictments (and hopefully many), he needs to be taken away to jail and removed from the political discourse, for the good of the country.
— John Lapkass
Anchorage
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