Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, now calls Trump “an absolute fascist” and “a fascist to the core.” Bob Woodward, famous Watergate journalist.
“He is the most dangerous man who ever lived,” Milley told Woodward in his book War. According to the Guardian. “I had my doubts when they talked about his mental decline and such, but now I realize that he is a complete fascist. He is now the most dangerous man in the country.”
“It’s fascist to the core,” Milley said.
Some of Milley’s warnings about Trump revolve around the former president’s promise to seek revenge on his perceived political enemies. During his campaign, Trump often told his supporters, “I am your revenge.” Milley, who clashed with Trump at the White House and has since publicly criticized the incumbent Republican presidential candidate, told Woodward he feared he would be recalled from retirement and court-martialed if Trump wins next month’s election.
According to a Guardian report on Woodward’s book, Milley warned his former colleagues in Washington that President Trump is “a walking, talking advertisement for what he is trying to do.” “He’s saying that, and it’s not just him, it’s the people.” “Around that person.”
Milley specifically pointed out how he was threatened by Steve Bannon, who rose to become a White House strategist after leading Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and is currently in prison for contempt of Congress. “We’re going to hold him accountable,” Bannon said of Milley.
Woodward’s book also details the tense Oval Office discussions Milley had with Trump and his second Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper. President Trump reportedly wanted revenge on William McRaven, a retired Navy admiral who led the mission that killed the al-Qaeda leader in 2011, or face the possibility of being court-martialed. osama bin laden was murdered. Trump was furious that the retired admiral had publicly criticized him.
Milley told Woodward he could appease Trump by telling him he would “handle it,” but warned McRaven and other former military commanders to avoid the “public stage” for a while and to tone down their criticism of Trump.
The Trump campaign did not respond to HuffPost’s request for comment on Milley’s reported comments to Woodward.
Milley’s account of Trump in the White House is similar to the recollections of other military figures, including retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff. like famous Kelly reported in the Guardian that Trump had insisted that the generals be like the “absolutely loyal” German generals who served under Adolf Hitler during World War II.
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During this year’s campaign, Trump said on his first day in office that he would be a “dictator.” He also used it repeatedly. blatant fascist rhetoric Talking about immigrants to America.
Milley is not the only one who thinks Trump is a fascist.
Robert Paxton, considered one of the leading fascism scholars, initially refused to call Trump a fascist when he took office in 2016, but changed his stance after the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Trump’s incitement to invade the Capitol on January 6, 2021 erased my opposition to the fascist label.” Paxton wrote thereabouts. “Openly encouraging civil violence to overturn an election has crossed a line. Now this label seems not only acceptable, but necessary.”
