Former President Joe Biden's pre-emptive pardon for retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will give the retired military official a shield against any action that President Donald Trump might take against him amid their highly public feud.

The Pentagon pulled down a portrait of retired US Army Gen. and frequent Donald Trump critic Mark Milley just hours after the 47th president’s Monday inauguration in Washington, DC. The portrait of the now-retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff had a short-lived run in the hallway filled with paintings of Milley’s predecessors — it had only been 10 days before,