The Pentagon says the retired General Mark Mark, who served as the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff in Trump and Biden Administration, has been canceled both their safety details and their safety approval.
The new Defense Secretary PT Hegaseth informed the General Mile today that he was canceling the authority for his security details and is also suspended for his security approval, “Pentagon spokesman John Yulot in a statement on Tuesday night by John Yulot Told CBS News.
Giseth said that Hegseth instructed the “Inspector General of the Office of the Defense Department” to investigate the facts and circumstances around the conduct of General Mile, so that the secretary could determine whether his military grade review determination again It is appropriate to open. ,
Inspector General of Acting Defense Department, Stephen Stephens, received a request to review whether a four -star general should be snatched away from a star, a spokesman for the office of Inspector General of Pentagon told CBS News. Stebbins is reviewing the request.
Mr. Trump nominated Mile to lead the joint heads during his first term, a position Mile held for a full four -year term from 2019 to 2023.
Mr. Trump and met, however, on many incidents of Mr. Trump, a public collapsed in the last months of the first term, which started with an apology, which was released to participate, while wearing clothes in fatigue , photo op In June 2020, federal officials in front of St. John Church approved social justice protesters from Lafiat Park to run from the White House to the Church.
A book published in September 2021 It turned out that Mile also engaged in two phone calls – one on October 30, 2020, and the other on January 8, 2021Two days after the captivate rebellion – to assure him with Chinese General Lee Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army that the US would not attack against China and the US was stable.
At the inauguration, Mr. Trump claimed that Mile should try to “treason”. Then, a shocking 2023 social media postsMr. Trump suggested that the call formed a “traitor act”, which could warrant execution.
In October 2023 Interview With “60 minutes”, Mile said that the call “was an example of deseles. So – there were clear indications – that the Chinese were very concerned about what they were looking at – here in the United States.”
According to another 2021 book, Mile feared Mr. Trump Will try a coup After losing the 2020 election, more such plans were made.
On January 20, when he was leaving the post, former President Joe Biden East -do Mile thought with others that they could be targeted by the Trump administration.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Chief of Staff of the Defense Department, who told CBS News that “Reducing the command series is corrosive for our national security, and restoring the accountability is for the Defense Department led by President Trump to the Defense Department. Is priority. “
Trump administration has also canceled Federal security details Former Trump Secretary Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor to Trump John Bolton, Iran Brian Hook, former special messenger of Trump and Dr. Anthony FausiFormer long -time director of the National Institute of Allergies and infectious diseases.
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