Toward the end of his one term in office, former President Donald Trump appointed several loyalists to key positions within defense and intelligence agencies -- and some of them alarmed Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
An explosive new excerpt published in the Wall Street Journal of a new book by reporter Michael C. Bender claims that Milley was so worried about some of the appointees that he "asked some Pentagon officials whether the new hires had ties to neo-Nazi groups."
The excerpt does not list which hires Milley was concerned had ties to Nazi groups.
One particularly controversial hire at the time was retired Army Brig. Gen. Anthony J. Tata, a conspiracy theorist who called former President Barack Obama a "Muslim" and a "terrorist leader."
Other hires included Trump loyalists Kash Patel and Ezra Cohen-Watnick, both of whom had very limited experience in military and intelligence matters.
