Retired Gen. Mark Milley Calls Trump ‘A Total Fascist’

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Retired Army Gen. Mark Milley, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, now says Trump is a “total fascist” and “fascist to the core,” according to a forthcoming book by Bob Woodward, the famed Watergate journalist.

“He is the most dangerous person ever,” Milley told Woodward for his book “War,” according to The Guardian. “I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

“A fascist to the core,” Milley said.

Part of Milley’s warning about Trump revolves around the former president’s promise to get revenge on his perceived political enemies. Trump has frequently told his supporters on the campaign trail: “I am your retribution.” Milley, who clashed with Trump in the White House and who has since been publicly critical of the current Republican presidential nominee, told Woodward that he’s afraid of being recalled from retirement to be court-martialed if Trump wins the election next month.

According to the Guardian’s report on Woodward’s book, Milley warned his former colleagues in Washington that Trump was “a walking, talking advertisement of what he’s going to try to do,” adding: “He’s saying it and it’s not just him, it’s the people around him.”

Milley was pointing in particular to how Steve Bannon — who rose to White House strategist after chairing Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, and who is now in jail for being found in contempt of Congress — has threatened him. “We’re gonna hold him accountable,” Bannon has said of Milley.

Woodward’s book also details a tense Oval Office discussion Milley had with Trump and his second secretary of defense, Mark Esper. Trump reportedly wanted to get revenge on, or potentially court-martial, William McRaven, the retired Navy admiral who led the 2011 mission in which al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed. Trump was enraged that the retired admiral publicly criticized him.

Milley told Woodward he was able to mollify Trump by saying he would “take care” of it but then warned McRaven and other former military commanders to keep off the “public stage” for a while and ease up on their criticisms of Trump.

The Trump campaign did not respond to a HuffPost request for comment about Milley’s reported comments to Woodward.

Milley’s stories about Trump in the White House are similar to recollections from other military figures, including retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of staff. As noted by the Guardian, Kelly said Trump reportedly insisted that generals should be “like the German generals” serving under Adolf Hitler during World War II, who were “totally loyal.”

On the campaign trail this year Trump has said he’d be a “dictator” on his first day in office. He has also repeatedly used explicitly fascist rhetoric while talking about immigrants in the United States.

Milley is not alone in his assessment that Trump is a fascist.

Robert Paxton, considered one of the foremost scholars of fascism, initially declined to call Trump a fascist during his rise to the White House in 2016, but he changed his tune after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

“Trump’s incitement of the invasion of the Capitol on January 6, 2021 removes my objection to the fascist label,” Paxton wrote at the time. “His open encouragement of civic violence to overturn an election crosses a red line. The label now seems not just acceptable but necessary.”
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Just waiting for TOS to grow a toothbrush mustache.
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Re: Retired Gen. Mark Milley Calls Trump ‘A Total Fascist’

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I think we're really going to feel the power of younger voters (younger than 50) this time around. And especially the newest voting block, those between 18-22.This age group gets polled much less frequently due to their net savvy ways of avoiding said polls. Looking forward to the election part being over. Sheesh. The aftermath will be interesting, to say the least. Only thing that will totally prevent chaos is an overwhelming result.

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Last time his supporters went election violent, Trump was in office. They attempted to keep him there by force. Trump does not enjoy that position or power this time. Should he win, might be like college students after a big ball game win, tear down the goal posts, burn down the Library, whether it be in D.C. or Alexandria. The news never seems to cover what the fans of the loosing team do after a major disappointment. The Stupor Bowel. Should be a good game.

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The enemy from within': Trump wants US military deployed against 'radical left' voters

Former President Donald Trump called for the use of U.S. military forces against the "radical left" on election day.

In a Sunday interview on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo asked the Republican presidential nominee if he was "expecting chaos on election day."

"Not from the side that votes for Trump," Trump replied. "I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within, not even the people that have come in and destroying our country, by the way, totally destroying our country, the towns, the villages, they're being inundated."

"But I don't think they're the problem in terms of election day," he continued. "I think the bigger problem are the people from within. We have some very bad people. We have some sick people, radical left lunatics."

"And I think they're the big, and it should be very easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military, because they can't let that happen."
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Just a throwback to fascism of the 1930s. Will we see the military take an oath to obey Trump above all, sworn on the flag that was flying over the Capital on Jan. 6?
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

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Normalizing violence in speech is prelude or a set up to justify violence in action. In any other developed country this sort of candidate would be severely reprimanded, fined, or relieved of the ability to hold office, period.
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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