The book will be published in August. This week, Milley made headlines with remarks before a congressional committee about critical race theory, an academic discipline that explores racism in American law and institutions that has been targeted by Republicans, in relation to the US army and its academy at West Point. When Trump was in power, Milley had to deal repeatedly with presidential rage.
Crack their skulls! But be hard on them! Throughout a tense summer, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a historic piece of legislation regarding domestic unrest, but ultimately did not do so. What we have, Mr President, is a protest.
One such protest, in Lafayette Square outside the White House last June, was forcibly and controversially cleared before Trump posed for pictures outside a historic church. Milley apologised for accompanying Trump on his own march. My presence in that moment, and in that environment, created the perception of the military involved in domestic politics. On Capitol Hill this week, Milley discussed the deadly 6 January attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to overturn his election defeat, which Congress deemed an insurrection when it impeached Trump for inciting it.
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