Very heady stuff, but CJCS Milley has been fairly outspoken to see this as believable. Scary to think this was running through the top US General's head.
"Top US General Mark Milley compared former president Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, accusing him of preaching "the gospel of the Fhrer" as he deployed rabble-rousing rhetoric in a quest to cling to power, a new book says.
Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also referred to Trump's supporters as "brownshirts in the streets," and compared Trump's attempts to discredit the election results in the run-up to the January 6 Capitol riot to the Nazi leader using an arson attack on the German parliament to seize absolute power, according to New York magazine, which obtained an advance copy of "I Alone Can Fix It," by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
According to NY Mag, in the book, Milley recalls that he was initially unconcerned for the state of American democracy when an old friend warned him that Trump and his backers were trying to "overturn the government."
"They may try, but they're not going to ****ing succeed," he reportedly told his aides. "You can't do this without the military. You can't do this without the CIA and the FBI. We're the guys with guns" "
https://www.timesofisrael.com/joint-chiefs-head-worried-of-trump-emulating-hitlers-seizure-of-power-book/
"Top US General Mark Milley compared former president Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, accusing him of preaching "the gospel of the Fhrer" as he deployed rabble-rousing rhetoric in a quest to cling to power, a new book says.
Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also referred to Trump's supporters as "brownshirts in the streets," and compared Trump's attempts to discredit the election results in the run-up to the January 6 Capitol riot to the Nazi leader using an arson attack on the German parliament to seize absolute power, according to New York magazine, which obtained an advance copy of "I Alone Can Fix It," by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
According to NY Mag, in the book, Milley recalls that he was initially unconcerned for the state of American democracy when an old friend warned him that Trump and his backers were trying to "overturn the government."
"They may try, but they're not going to ****ing succeed," he reportedly told his aides. "You can't do this without the military. You can't do this without the CIA and the FBI. We're the guys with guns" "
https://www.timesofisrael.com/joint-chiefs-head-worried-of-trump-emulating-hitlers-seizure-of-power-book/