Trump has often criticized his former top general, whose portrait was taken down at the Pentagon just after the new administration took office.
Mark Milley's portrait as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was taken down from the Pentagon hallway where all of the paintings of the previous chairmen are located.
With just hours left of his presidency, Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons to Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley and members of the House Jan. 6 committee.
As one of his final acts in office, President Joe Biden has granted pardons to several people who have faced threats of prosecution from Biden's political opponents. The post ‘The lifeblood of our democracy’: Biden issues last-minute pardons to Fauci,
President Biden preemptively pardons to former Gen. Mark Milley, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and Sen. Adam Schiff to protect them from Trump inquiries.
President Biden noted that the "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing."
President Biden preemptively pardons Dr. Anthony Fauci, former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, and retired Gen. Mark Milley to protect them from Trump inquiries.
The portrait, which had just been unveiled Jan. 10, hung in the Joint Chiefs hallway next to those of other former chairs.
A swath of high-profile Democrats warned President Biden against issuing preemptive and blanket pardons to those seen as Trump's political foes before pardoning Fauci and Milley.
President Joe Biden granted pardons to leading government officials that President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to punish, fending off potential retribution by his successor against those he has labeled as political enemies.
Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said Tuesday on CNN that former President Joe Biden was wrong to issue last-minute preemptive pardons just before his term ended. Minutes before President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Monday,