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20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 39th Chief of Staff of the Army
The question “ a ?” divides scholars, journalists and political actors: many experts and commentators argue his rhetoric and coalition exhibit core fascist-like features, while other analysts and outl...
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...
used his clemency power in the closing days of his presidency to issue a mix of individual pardons, mass proclamations and preemptive pardons that included family members, high-profile public servants...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gen. Mark Milley placed two calls to China’s top general—on Oct. 30, 2020, and Jan. 8, 2021—to reassure Beijing that the United States was not planning a surprise attack and to preserve strategic stab...
Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 “Save America” rally speech combined direct attacks on the 2020 election result, calls to action for supporters, and phrases that critics later said encouraged the Capit...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...