All of Joe Biden's preemptive pardons for the worst political malefactors in recent years are an insult to the rule of law, but one in particular sticks in my craw: Mark Milley. 

Why? 

I expect bureaucrats like Anthony Fauci to be ass-covering snakes with a lust for power and disdain for accountability, and I am confident that he will burn in hell and be remembered as the mass murderer that he is. 

I expect politicians like Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, and the scumbags of the January 6th Committee to be liars who would sacrifice their souls for an extra minute on TV and an additional campaign dollar. 

But I DON'T expect our military officers to betray their country and pledge to our adversaries that he has their backs, and that is what General Mark Milley did when he called his counterpart in China behind the back of the President of the United States.

🚨GENERAL MARK MILLEY: AFTER BETRAYING AMERICA TO CHINA, HE'S WALKING FREE THANKS TO BIDEN'S PARDON

Biden just pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, the man who undermined Trump while he was president, secretly called China, and presided over America’s most humiliating military… https://t.co/gaq3tRrUrf pic.twitter.com/DCAGz1FiF5

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 20, 2025

Most of Biden's pardons are merely disgraceful and harmful to the rule of law--par for the course when it comes to Joe Biden, who has done more damage to the presidency than anybody in my lifetime. 

But the pardon of Milley is something special: it is an attack on the very foundational principle of civilian control over the military. 

We take military subservience to civilian authority for granted, but that is only because that is how it has always been in the United States and the West. It is a tradition. A norm. An expectation. And a matter of honor. 

General Mark Milley told his Chinese counterpart he would warn of any military attack by President Trump.

This gave China a crucial strategic advantage.

This emboldened China.

This put America in grave danger.

This is treason.

Biden pardoned Milley.https://t.co/5U4GsbhVOT

— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) January 20, 2025

After all, not to put too fine a point on it, the military has the guns. A platoon of soldiers could easily overpower the president, his administration, and Congress if they were unopposed by others in the military. Biden liked to mock civilians' Second Amendment rights by reminding us that he had control over F-16s. 

Actually, when Milley was chairman of the Joint Chiefs, HE had more direct control over the F-16s. 

Milley broke the chain of command, which was unforgivable. Yet Biden pardoned him because he defied Biden's arch nemesis, Donald Trump. Biden, now a former president, endorsed a military officer disobeying the will of the President of the United States as long as that president didn't obey the transnationalists' creed. 

Can Milley still be Court Martialed? I don't know. I am not a legal scholar. 

But I am 99.9999% certain that Trump can recall him to active duty and order him to sweep the floors, be based in Nome, Alaska, or perhaps guard some armory in the middle of nowhere. 

Maybe Trump can bust him down to private and make him clean latrines at some base in the middle of the desert after his time in Nome. Whatever duty he is given, it should be the dirtiest, nastiest, and most humiliating possible. 

I don't care if Milley is jailed. But I think he needs to be held accountable and be shamed for eternity. This isn't just about revenge--as Trump said, victory is his retribution--but pour encourager les autres.

UPDATE: PORTRAIT OF MARK MILLEY REMOVED FROM PENTAGON

BREAKING: Portrait of retired Gen. Mark Milley removed from the Pentagon - @OrenCNN pic.twitter.com/KzggeaJm0K

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 20, 2025

Milley's new portrait in the Pentagon lasted 10 days...

The Trump administration is not playing games... pic.twitter.com/m8EpdlATbd

— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) January 20, 2025