Ingraham: Marine punished for Afghanistan comments vs Milley's lack of responsibility shows 'double standard'
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While Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller has been sent the brig for allegedly breaking the chain of command among other allegations after his social posts criticizing the Afghanistan withdrawal went viral, Gen. Mark Milley is the “truly guilty” one, Laura Ingraham argued in her Wednesday night monologue.
Milley testified this week that he wasn’t trying to usurp authority or insert himself in the chain of command when he allegedly held "secret" phone calls with Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People's Liberation Army, in October 2020 and days after the Capitol riot in January 2021, according to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s book "Peril."
"Now, who deserves to be held accountable here?" Ingraham asked. "A Marine Corps officer with a stellar career, yet still risks his pension and benefits to tell the truth about our incompetent military leadership, or Milley, the incompetent leader whose own failure to speak out left 13 Americans dead?" She contended that Milley did try to usurp Trump’s authority because he "hated" him.
She noted that Congressional Republicans agreed Milley and Scheller’s cases showed a clear double standard.