In a recent interview for “60 Minutes,” retired Gen. Mark Milley, who recently left a stint as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which is a military body, described President Joe Biden as clearly up to the tasks of the presidency in the interactions shared by Milley and the incumbent, who is seeking another term.
Opponents of Biden have often pointed to his age in attempting to make political attacks, though former President Donald Trump, who is expected to challenge Biden in next year’s general election, is only barely younger.
Milley was adamantly insistent on not making more general statements that could quickly bring the now former top military leader directly into politics, instead simply relaying his experiences with the president. “I engage with him frequently, and [Biden is] alert, sound, does his homework, reads the papers, reads all the read-ahead material, and is very, very engaging in issues of very serious matters of war and peace and life and death,” Milley said. “So if the American people are worried about an individual, who is someone who’s making decisions of war and peace and makes the decisions of nuclear weapons and that sort of thing, I think they can rest easy.”
And it’s not Biden who keeps going on and on about a conspiracy theory of extreme scope that a years-long stream of evidence has disproved. That’s Trump, who continues to insist he was denied a rightful victory in the 2020 presidential race because of fraud. On Truth Social, Trump also recently suggested Milley’s execution in conjunction with complaints from Trump’s circles about communications in which Milley engaged towards the end of Trump’s term with a Chinese counterpart. There’s no meaningful evidence these calls, which Milley said were known and coordinated inside the U.S. federal government, were “treasonous,” as Trump alleges. Milley was seeking to reassure the Chinese that the United States would not be attacking.
