{"id":593878,"date":"2021-07-16T15:36:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593878"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:36:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:36:39","slug":"milley-told-michelle-obama-at-biden-inauguration-no-one-has-a-bigger-smile-today-than-i-do-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/milley-told-michelle-obama-at-biden-inauguration-no-one-has-a-bigger-smile-today-than-i-do-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Milley Told Michelle Obama At Biden Inauguration, \u2018No One Has A Bigger Smile Today Than I Do\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmilley-told-michelle-obama-at-biden-inauguration-no-one-has-a-bigger-smile-today-than-i-do-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593878&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/General-Mark-Milley.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>According to a new book, on the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley reportedly told former First Lady Michelle Obama, \u201cNo one has a bigger smile today than I do. You can\u2019t see it under my mask, but I do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those alleged statements were quoted by Washington Post reporters Carol&nbsp;Leonnig and Philip Rucker in their upcoming book, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B095BZ463N\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&amp;btkr=1\">I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump\u2019s Catastrophic Final Year<\/a><strong>,<\/strong>\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/14\/politics\/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>, which added, \u201cRucker and Leonnig interviewed more than 140 sources for the book, though most were given anonymity to speak candidly to reconstruct events and dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The authors state that Vice President Kamala Harris told Milley after she was sworn in, \u2018We all know what you and some others did. Thank you.\u201d&nbsp;The authors quote Milley saying, \u201cThank God Almighty, we landed the ship safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/gen-mark-milley-compared-trump-supporters-to-nazis-these-are-the-same-people-we-fought-in-world-war-ii\/\">reported<\/a> on Thursday:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"21.607920792079\">\n<p><em>Milley, who has been widely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/has-the-military-gone-woke-11624660049\">criticized<\/a> for being \u201cwoke,\u201d claimed that Trump was preaching \u201cthe gospel of the F\u00fchrer\u201d when he contested the results of the 2020 election and claimed that Trump had led the U.S. to the brink of its own \u201cReichstag moment,\u201d a reference to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/true-story-reichstag-fire-and-nazis-rise-power-180962240\/\">incident<\/a> in 1933 that Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler used to consolidate political power in Germany.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>New York Magazine reported:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u2026 the general\u2019s worries grew rapidly as the president plunged the nation into chaos following Election Day. Seven days later, Milley got a call from \u201can old friend\u201d with an explicit warning that Trump and his allies were trying to \u201coverturn the government.\u201d Milley was confident that any attempts by Trump to hold on to power would be thwarted, because the military wouldn\u2019t go along. \u201cThey may try, but they\u2019re not going to fucking succeed,\u201d he told aides. \u201cYou can\u2019t do this without the military. You can\u2019t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We\u2019re the guys with guns.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Milley was nominated by former President Barack Obama to become the Army\u2019s chief of staff in 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/business\/2015\/05\/obama-nominates-former-afghanistan-war-deputy-lead-army\/112708\/\">Defense One<\/a> reported at the time:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"15\">\n<p><em>Milley\u2019s rise to top Army officer came quickly. He is commander of U.S. Forces Command, a post he\u2019s held only since last August. Previously, for a little more than one year he was the deputy commander of the Afghanistan war and ran the international coalition\u2019s day-to-day operations. Prior, Milley has extensive command experience of units like the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, and was deputy commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division when deployed to Afghanistan. He has seen combat in Panama and Iraq, as well.&nbsp;As a colonel, Milley was a military assistant to then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDetractors say he sometimes domineered those around him, allowed his temper to erupt and, according to another former official, \u2018has an ego the size of the Empire State Building,\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/trump-biden-milley-transition-military\/2021\/06\/22\/44df70ea-c9f1-11eb-93fa-9053a95eb9f2_story.html\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported in late June.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new book, on the day Joe Biden was inaugurated as President of the United States, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley reportedly told former First Lady &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}