Mark Milley

but he can't bring them to the Capitol.

And Mark Milley, who was the chairman of the

Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time in the line of command, said he never received any request for more National Guardsmen at the Capitol, despite after it started.

That's because that's Nancy Pelosi's job to do that.

No, he's not.

President Trump, he lived through Mark Milley, who was one of the worst.

I mean, that guy, he should be in prison right now.

So should this guy.

The planning for potential pardons reflects the accelerating breakdown of long-standing norms over one of the broadest powers granted to the president by the U.S. Constitution.

Joe Biden issued more acts of clemency than any prior president and also issued preemptive pardons to prominent allies, including several members of his own family, top medical advisor Anthony Fauci, and retired General Mark Milley.

Trump has taken the pardon power to a new level in his second term, granting clemency to roughly 1,700 people as of June, according to Reuters.

The Justice Department has traditionally housed the formal pardon process, and department officials have vetted candidates before presenting qualified ones to the president.

But in every single case, these guys went forward and they explained to the American public why they were making these decisions, right? And so if a senior officer is not performing to standards, absolutely, make sure you get rid of them.

But in the case of Hegseth, the 30 or so officers that he and the president have retired early or fired or whatever it happens to be, there was no reason given other than they weren't a good cultural fit, which of course, what it really meant was, well, they had been hired by Biden or they had, Mark Milley had been a friend of theirs, pick something.

It was purely political.

I mean, guys like General Randy George and Chris Donahue, but Lisa Franchetti, CQ Brown, I mean, the list goes on and on and on and on.

But I do know in general that this kind of purging of the senior ranks is going to have an effect on the next generation of senior officers coming up.

It's also striking that so many of the both firings and the blocked promotions have affected women and minorities disproportionately.

Not a lot of them are white men unless they happen to have been loyal or perceived to be loyal to Mark Milley, the former chair of the Joint Chiefs.

That seems to certainly send some message about diversity in the military.

And, you know, he's got the Pentagon up in arms.

I know you're a good reporter.

You know that the Pentagon absolutely hates him.

OK, I mean, they.

He, by the way, has also not acknowledged the election results yet.

Once again, it's a blow to the individual candidate, Flavio Bolsonaro, but it's also a blow to this global ethno-nationalist, fascist, would call it what you will, hate-driven movement on the right that's led by Putin but includes Trump, included Orban, included Vucic, includes Narendra Modi, includes Bibi Netanyahu includes Erdogan, includes Milley.

And so that movement is a bit on the ropes.

And that's good news.

Trump told Time, yeah, sure, I'd do that because Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody.

And I get the appeal, Biden pre-pardoned Fauci, General Milley, and the January 6th committee.

If Biden can, why not Trump? Here's the difference.

Biden pardoned people he feared Trump would punish for doing their jobs.