Gen Mark Milley has said it was a mistake to have been present at Donald Trump's photo op in front  of a church in Washington. "I should not have been there," he said in a pre-recorded video commencement address to the National Defense University.
Milley and the defense secretary, Mark Esper, were widely criticised for participating in the photo-op during George Floyd protests in Washington, with many former defence officials saying the two were helping Trump’s efforts to politicise the military
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