ABC's Jonathan Karl has the inside story amid questions raised about the timing.
Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign event at Saginaw Valley State University, Oct. 3, 2024, in Saginaw, Mich.After he won the 2016 election, Donald Trump surrounded himself with strong, decorated military officers who had fought wars and earned the right to have stars on their shoulders.
Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign event at Saginaw Valley State University, Oct. 3, 2024, in Saginaw, Mich.generals, after all; they had each sworn an oath to protect the Constitution -- they had not sworn allegiance to Trump. In this July 31, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump talks with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly after he was privately sworn in during a ceremony in the Oval Office in Washington.John Kelly, who served Trump as both secretary of homeland security and then White House chief of staff, has now
The former generals' searing assessments would be alarming coming from anybody, but they are especially extraordinary coming from retired four-star officers who had spent their entire adult lives serving in the military and living by the creed that the military stays out of politics.
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