'Blast-proof curtains': Trump's revenge campaign targets retired general

Mark Milley, the retired U.S. Army general and former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, worries that Donald Trump will order a military trial against him if re-elected, according to a new book. Veteran journalist Bob Woodward reveals in his new book, "War," that Milley recently “warned former colleagues that Trump intends to recall and then court martial retired senior officers who have criticized him as part of a wide-ranging revenge campaign he has pledged to carry out in a possible second term as president, according to excerpts published by The Guardian. “He is a walking, talking Former defense secretary Mark Esper told Woodward about a 2020 Oval Office meeting where Trump “yelled” and “shouted” about William McRaven, a former Navy admiral who led the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and Stanley McChrystal, a retired special forces general whose troops killed another al-Qaida leader, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, in Iraq in 2006. For instance, when a retired two-star was charged in 2017 with six counts of raping a minor while on active duty in the 1980s.” Esper and Milley both urged Trump not to punish McRaven and McChrystal for their criticism, saying they had a right to express their opinions and warning the move would backfire and draw attention to their criticism, but Woodward said "the president didn’t want to hear it."