The Trump administration withdraws the official protection of former Army Chief Mark Milley, critic with the tycoon

The United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, has announced the withdrawal of official protection to the former Chief of the United States and responsible for the withdrawal of Afghanistan’s troops in August 2021, Mark Milley, a political figure that He has been critical on numerous occasions with the now tenant of the White House, Donald Trump.

The head of the Pentagon has also ordered that an investigation against Miley, which was subject to the past week by the outgoing president, Joe Biden, in one of his last actions at the head of the country. Milley is among the high positions of the previous administration to be threatened by Trump for his return to the presidency.

As indicated by the Pentagon spokesman, John Ulliot, it is an unprecedented measure against what was the general general of the US armed forces, which will now have to submit a series of analysis of their behavior and range.

Trump appointed milley chief of the Army in 2018, but his relationship quickly deteriorated during the last months of the first term of the New York tycoon, a tension that even led Milley to call Trump “fascist”, as he collects the television network American CNN.

The then Chief of the Army indicated in his last speech in the position that “he would not swear before a dictator”, a clear allusion to the now president, who then accused Milley of “betrayal” for maintaining a series of telephone calls with his Chinese counterpart in 2020.

Biden recalled before leaving the White House that the persons pardoned “have been threatened with criminal proceedings” for their management in the exercise of their functions, such as Anthony Fauci, who exercised as a White House medical advisor with Trump, and Milley himself .