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Anonymous ID: 1a7d41 Oct. 6, 2020, 3:54 p.m. No.10952640   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2663 >>2675 >>2701 >>2711 >>2750 >>2803

Gen. Mark Milley’s questionable comedy consisted of two groaners aimed at House impeachment hearing leader Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

Nobody laughed at either joke. Milley knew it and apologized Monday in a Twitter post published by the Joint Staff.

In remarks last Thursday at DIA headquarters on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C., Milley noted that Schiff was on the guest list but absent.

He took the opening to riff on Schiff's aggressive pursuit of the impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump over allegations of wrongdoing in dealings with Ukraine.

The House voted to impeach Trump, but the Republican-controlled Senate acquitted him. Trump has since taken to calling the House Intelligence Committee chairman "shifty Schiff."

"I actually thought I was looking at the invite list and I saw Adam Schiff, Congressman Adam Schiff was here. He didn't, I don't think, show up, but I'm pretty sure CIA has an empty seat, so that's appropriate for covert operations," Milley said.

He got no response from the face-mask wearing audience of about 50 officials and family members.

Undaunted, Milley gave it another shot.

"We don't have ABC, NBC, CBS [or other news outlets present], but I thought we were going to have a hearing when I saw Schiff. I wasn't sure it was going to be a hearing or an indictment. I wasn't sure," he said.

Again, the audience didn't laugh.

There was no immediate response from Schiff's office, but a spokesperson for the congressman told Politico that Schiff "appreciated the call [from Milley] and looks forward to continuing to work with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Department of Defense."

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/06/gen-milley-apologizes-after-joke-about-rep-adam-schiff-falls-flat.html