in his retirement speech earlier in the day, during which the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said,"We don't take an oath to a king or a queen or to a tyrant or a dictator. And we don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator."
The comment seemed to be in response to the recent attacks directed at Milley by Trump, who suggested in a post on Truth Social last week that the generalFormer Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday speaks during the GOP presidential primary debate in Simi Valley, California. Pence on Friday told CNN that he"out of" the"business" of explaining former President Donald Trump's comments.
Collins continued to press Pence, including asking him if he believed Trump was a"wannabe dictator," while pointing out Trump's response to Milley's comments Friday evening in which he called Milley"slow moving and thinking." Pence was also asked his opinion on Trump'stoward his political adversaries and the prosecutors behind his numerous criminal indictments.
"Do you believe that he is a threat if he returns to the Oval Office?" Collins posed to the ex-vice president. "You know, I spent four years trying to explain Donald Trump's words, and I'm out of that business now, Kaitlan," Pence replied.Pence has previously said that he and Trump went their