Last week right before Trump's inauguration and pardoning his own gang of family thieves, xPOTATUS pardoned a disgraceful basket of deplorable who were arguably threats to national security on numerous fronts.

Among them was General Mark Milley, who, by that time, had retired to start a typical four-star life of cushy seats on corporate boards. He'd be chasing white rage in breakrooms and on factory floors and leaking info as a consultant on MSNBC to his black heart's content.

Joe Biden, in one of his final acts as president, pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, in an extraordinary use of executive power to guard against potential “revenge” by the new Trump administration.

Or, that was the plan.

Where the pardon gave him a blanket blessing for the myriad sins we knew about - and God knows the ones we don't...

🚨 Biden gave Milley a comprehensive pardon “for any offenses against the U.S.” (including under UCMJ) “which he may have committed or taken part in” from *2014* through issuance of the pardon. So, Milley is escaping all criminal scrutiny for all he did over *more than a decade*. pic.twitter.com/vzpgPSHrsE

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) January 20, 2025

...it did not protect him from other military consequences of his actions during his tenure as Joint Chiefs head and a chief executive who would demand accountability.

Trump had won the election and had a hard-nosed, warrior-caste Secretary of Defense nominee fixin' to be approved.

'Mistakes were made' days were over. If there were mistakes, there were going to be answers found for them and accountability for the results.

The first sign of intent towards those ends was the removal of a stunningly ugly portrait of the former rage-hunter from its place of honor in the Pentagon.

BREAKING: General Mark Milley's portrait has been removed from the Pentagon. It was just unveiled 10 days ago. pic.twitter.com/lkHgaTkiXg

— Mark Lucas (@lucasiowa) January 20, 2025

They shortly had that besmirched spot on the wall spruced right back up.

New coat of paint for the wall where retired general Mark Milley’s portrait hung at the Pentagon before it was removed on the day that Trump took office pic.twitter.com/dwVC0YtW8I

— W.G. Dunlop (@wgdunlop) January 21, 2025

Then Pete Hegseth fought through everything thrown at him to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.

He began to take action against Milley yesterday.

New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday stripped former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley of his security detail and ordered the acting inspector general to investigate whether the former Army leader could face criminal charges or a retroactive demotion for misconduct, potentially including undermining the chain of command.

The unusual move is the latest showdown between President Donald Trump and Milley, who served as the top uniformed officer during Trump’s first term in office and has been a vocal critic of the president’s actions and demeanor.

In a statement sent out by Pentagon leaders just before midnight, Defense Department spokesman said that Milley was informed of the actions Tuesday afternoon.

“The secretary has directed the DoD IG to conduct an inquiry into the facts and circumstances surrounding Gen. Milley’s conduct, so that the secretary may determine whether it is appropriate to reopen his military grade review determination.”

He spoke about opening an investigation into Milley's conduct in his first interview as SecDef today.

🚨 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth just said that the Pentagon is going to investigate retired Gen. Mark Milleypic.twitter.com/CUg3WHdOyP

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

I can't imagine why anyone would want to crawl up this massive butt...can you?

OH, LET ME COUNT THE WAYS

"In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the PLA, that the U.S. would not strike, according to a new book by Bob Woodward & Robert Costa."https://t.co/JCFL5PDeTF pic.twitter.com/IheGZecFEb

— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) September 14, 2021

Milley's big mouth and braggadocious ego were his worst enemies and will be Hegseth's best friends going forward.

Re: What Milley told Woodward…

I wonder what postponing an exercise around Taiwan out of concern for provoking China tells the Chinese about our will and decision-making. Would the Chinese have actually thought we were about to conduct a preemptive strike? On what, for what? pic.twitter.com/CGzTZZGRj2

— Kristina Wong 🇺🇸 (@kristina_wong) September 29, 2021

Such a peach.

NEW

Trump’s former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley calls Donald Trump a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the corrupt former president, Bob Woodward reveals in his new book pic.twitter.com/1gNsfduuCZ

— Silvano (@Silvano29360) October 11, 2024

Keep talking, buddy...

Milley claims “at no time was I attempting to change or influence the process, usurp authority or insert myself in the chain of command” — but Woodward described him as “pulling a Schlesinger” i.e. ordering officials not to follow direct orders from the president. pic.twitter.com/g6OEzuiPrO

— Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 28, 2021

If Hegseth nails this scumbag, it won't be a minute too soon

Gen. Milley did just say this. He also offered a stirring lecture about the central importance of civilian control and obedience to the President.

This is the same Gen. Milley who boasted to Bob Woodward (or had someone do it) about his attempts to sabotage Trump with China. pic.twitter.com/VYF4PpqoWD

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 28, 2021

But him losing a star - or two - and not being able to sell his expertise (without a security clearance, he's worthless) to boards or networks who hate Trump may help salve some of the wounds. A little bit.

Sure, he'll be a martyr to the Left until they don't need him anymore. But if there's some mechanism to settle a tiny bit of the scores for the ruin he nearly brought our military - and I can think of 13 lives off the top of my head he will forever owe on - for his own disgraceful, dishonorable behavior, and have some answers come out of the investigation about just how deep the malicious rot was under his watch went, then...okay.

I want him raked over the proverbial coals and back.

🚨 NEW STATEMENT issued by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth - Fox

“If you actively undermined the chain of command, as General Milley did under the previous Trump administration, we are going to review those actions administratively inside the Defense Department."

"Mark Milley… pic.twitter.com/iQkpa1l6Jr

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 29, 2025

...“If you actively undermined the chain of command, as General Milley did under the previous Trump administration, we are going to review those actions administratively inside the Defense Department." 

"Mark Milley got a pardon. That's something President Biden was in his purview to do. Just like in our purview at the Defense Department, we have the opportunity to review things he may have done inside the chain of command while President Trump was president that undermined those authorities. So security clearance in the interim is revoked. There will be a review of his the rank he will retain upon retirement."

Okay.