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20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 39th Chief of Staff of the Army
The claim that retired Gen. Mark Milley said “Hitler did a lot of good things; he shouldn’t be judged by that one genocide” is : available reporting shows no record of Milley praising Hitler or minimi...
The available reporting shows Gen. Mark Milley made two calls to his Chinese counterpart in late 2020 and early 2021 to reassure China the U.S. would not attack and to reduce the risk of unintended co...
Available reporting does not show the CIA orchestrated or incited the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; however, multiple records and media reports show CIA personnel and leadership were in...
President Joe Biden issued an unprecedented number of clemency actions during his term, credited with that included broad commutations, a one-day mass action that commuted roughly 1,500 pandemic-era h...
President Joe Biden used clemency aggressively in his final year: he granted a high-volume commutation that freed 2,490 people (the White House list released Jan. 19, 2025) and issued headline-grabbin...
Available reporting shows Gen. Mark Milley made two calls to his Chinese counterpart on Oct. 30, 2020 and Jan. 8, 2021 to reassure Beijing the U.S. would not attack; Milley and multiple news outlets s...
Donald Trump has been recorded or credibly accused of *multiple* incidents that amount to disparaging people with disabilities across different years and contexts, including a widely circulated 2015 i...
The House Oversight Committee released a report on October 28, 2025, asserting that President Joe Biden’s aides used an autopen to sign executive actions and pardons without his direct authorization a...
President Trump’s pardons and rank restorations for service members accused or convicted of war crimes provoked sharp division: senior Pentagon leaders and many legal and veterans’ organizations warne...
General Mark Milley’s relationship with President Donald Trump profoundly shaped both the conduct and aftermath of his tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: his decisions to resist or const...
Multiple members of the Joint Chiefs and their predecessors have publicly clashed with or criticized President Donald Trump at different times; most prominently, retired Gen. Mark Milley and then‑Chai...
The House Select Committee concluded that President Trump never gave an order to deploy the National Guard to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that the authority to order D.C. Guard forces rested with ...
There is no single, public list in these sources that itemizes every presidential pardon signed by autopen with dates; reporting instead documents disputes over whether some pardons and other document...
Before the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack the D.C. National Guard occupied an unusual chain of command: the commanding general formally reports to the President, but operational control had been delegate...
Liz Cheney has repeatedly warned that Donald Trump exhibits , citing his Jan. 6 behavior, falsehoods, and contempt for democratic norms, but she has not commonly framed her critique as a direct one-to...
The available evidence shows , though retired and former senior officers’ public statements and letters contributed to the political environment and public debate. Multiple post‑election investigation...
President Biden issued thousands of acts of clemency during and at the close of his presidency, and the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA) — now led by Ed Martin — has been repor...
Available reporting in the provided sources documents at least one former chairman of the Joint Chiefs—retired Gen. Mark Milley—making sharp public criticisms of Donald Trump, with Milley reportedly c...
President Joe Biden granted clemency to thousands — officially 4,245 acts of clemency including large batch commutations and high-profile preemptive pardons such as his son Hunter Biden — and his fina...
President Joe Biden issued an unprecedented volume of clemency near and during the end of his term, ultimately granting roughly 4,245 acts of clemency over four years and commuting the sentences of ne...