“Mr. President,” Miller said, “they are burning America down. Antifa, Black Lives Matter, they’re burning it down. You have an insurrection on your hands. Barbarians are at the gate.” “Shut the fuck up, Stephen,” Milley told others he had replied. “Shut the fuck up.” In another clash with Miller in the Oval Office, Milley had resorted to pointing at a painting of Abraham Lincoln on the wall. “That guy up there, Lincoln had an insurrection,” Milley said. This was not the same thing.
