The general versus the president. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, likened Donald Trump’s effort to hold on to power after the 2020 election to Adolf Hitler, saying the president was preaching “the gospel of the Führer” with his lies about the election being stolen, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters.
Trump had appointed Milley to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2018, over the objections of Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Army general’s tenure at the top of the Pentagon had been relatively quiet, until last summer, when he appeared in uniform during an infamous photo opportunity for Trump in Lafayette Square that followed the clearing of protesters in front of the White House. Milley later apologized for creating a “perception of the military involved in domestic politics.
Photo: Penguin Press Still, Milley was disturbed by the sight of Trump supporters rallying to his cause in November, calling them “Brownshirts in the streets.” Leonnig and Rucker wrote that Milley “believed Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military.” The general likened the U.S. to Germany’s fragile Weimar Republic in the early 1930s.
The election was fraudulent
Too little, too late. The U.S. is a divided hellscape, in part, because people like General Milley, General Mattis, Barr, Pompeo, Tillerson, Bolton and others didn't speak up when it mattered. Their silence led to January 6th.
Ah yes, this from Gen. woke-a-dope.
Not interesting. You are so 2019, move on.
Who’s the real Nazi? The ones who are going door to door and advocating for vaccine or else
What a joke, you people are entertaining. Very rich, very dramatic, so left and hip.
I feel like it's a good moment for Democrats to acknowledge that while institution after institution failed, it's pretty clear the military top brass were deeply & uncompromisingly committed to democratic rule irregardless of partisan sympathies. So many countries that's not so.
The magnitude of these words coming from top brass military Gen. Milley more than confirms what we knew and experienced. It reinforces the military’s stand against the rise of Trump/GQP fascism. And it’s clear which side Trumpers are on.
Gen. Milley needs to meet with Sen_JoeManchin and SenatorSinema to tell them how close we came to a violent overthrow of our government.
deannal46721825 General Mark Milley............................I completely agree with you!! Everyday !!
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joncoopertweets If General's Mattis and Flynn had done the job Trump expected them to do, things may of gone the other way.
joncoopertweets 74 million Americans voted to re-elect Trump in spite of: apparent severe psychological pathology, obvious character deficiencies, authoritarian tendencies, racist and sexist sentiments, leadership failure leading to thousands of Covid deaths and impeachment. THAT IS FRIGHTENING.
who's surprised by any of this?
As chronicled in 'I Alone Can Fix It,' by CarolLeonnig and PhilipRucker, Milley said shortly before Capitol riot that Trump had led the country to the brink of its own “Reichstag moment,” viewing him as a potential threat to American democracy
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