Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It's the retribution, stupid, said no swing voter ever.

But that's where Team Trump is focused today against an undisputed American military hero.

Donald Trump's newly minted Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, in short order,

is exacting Donald Trump's revenge on retired four-star general,

former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Millie,

quote, removing his security detail, revoking his security clearance,

and ordering an inspector general inquiry into his record. Viewers of this program remember all too well that General Millie was a

frequent target of Donald Trump's rage and deranged rants that included, quote, suggesting that General

Millie had committed treason and should be put to death, end quote.

In part because of public threats like that, threats that sound like they're straight out of North Korea or Russia,

quote, General Millie received a preemptive pardon from President Biden.

A pardon that means, quote, General Millie cannot be court-martialed,

but a finding against

him could lead to a decision to reduce his rank, even in retirement. In plain English, reduce his

rank means potentially taking away one of General Millie's four stars. Stars, he earned for

extraordinary bravery on the battlefield and in the theater of war,

leading our brave men and women in uniform.

The details matter here today.

This is just some of what four-star General Mark Millie did to earn those four stars.

There's his extensive background of combat experience in Egypt, Panama, Haiti, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan,

Somalia, and Colombia. There's General Millie's long list of awards and honors, from the Army's

Distinguished Service Medal to the Legion of Merit, the National Defense Service Medal, the

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