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muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:49 PM Jul 2021

Top US general warned of 'Reichstag moment' in Trump's turbulent last days

Shortly before the deadly attack on the US Capitol on 6 January, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Mark Milley, told aides the US was facing a “Reichstag moment” because Donald Trump was preaching “the gospel of the Führer”, according to an eagerly awaited book about Trump’s last year in office.
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Leonnig and Rucker report that Milley spoke to an “old friend”, who warned the general that Trump and his allies were trying to “overturn the government” in response to Joe Biden’s election victory, which Trump falsely maintains was the result of electoral fraud.

Milley is reported to have said: “They may try, but they’re not going to fucking succeed. 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.”

Reportedly calling Trump supporters “Brownshirts”, a reference to paramilitaries who served Hitler in Germany in the 1930s, Milley is reported to have believed long before the Capitol attack that “Trump was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and call out the military”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jul/14/donald-trump-reichstag-moment-general-mark-milley-book

New York magazine link reporting "I Alone Can Fix This" excerpt, but limit on views unless you sign up: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/i-alone-can-fix-it-mark-milley-likened-trump-to-hitler.html

What Milley apparently said to Michelle Obama on President Biden's inauguration day: “No one has a bigger smile today than I do,” Milley reportedly said. “You can’t see it under my mask but I do.”

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Top US general warned of 'Reichstag moment' in Trump's turbulent last days (Original Post) muriel_volestrangler Jul 2021 OP
'Milley is reported to have said: "They may try, but they're not going to fucking succeed. elleng Jul 2021 #1
General Milley: Lone honorable and heroic figure at the end of trump's madness. (nt) Paladin Jul 2021 #2
Isn't it nice? gratuitous Jul 2021 #3
I would mind that a lot less FoxNewsSucks Jul 2021 #4
Agreed Evolve Dammit Jul 2021 #6
An awful lot of people have written books before and during the asshole's reign of terror. erronis Jul 2021 #5
Miley was there at Lafayette sq with tfg where military helicopters and resources were used! hydrolastic Jul 2021 #7

elleng

(130,156 posts)
1. 'Milley is reported to have said: "They may try, but they're not going to fucking succeed.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:54 PM
Jul 2021

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.”'

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Isn't it nice?
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 04:57 PM
Jul 2021

All these reporters just sat on these juicy stories in real time, but now they've assembled them into books and they're trying to turn a buck on their way-after-the-fact breathless revelations. In real time, the former guy's lunacy was winked at, and news outlets turned themselves into logical pretzels trying to explain that the crazy thing you thought you heard Trump say wasn't all that crazy because reasons.

Now that the motherfucker has been exiled from the White House, and everyone feels safe (more or less), it's time for the skeletons to come clattering out of the closets to tell us all just how unbalanced the former guy was and is. Oh, and to make a few bucks for the authors so they can go on the teevee shows.

FoxNewsSucks

(10,378 posts)
4. I would mind that a lot less
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 05:13 PM
Jul 2021

if MF45 were in jail with the rest of his criminal family and corrupt cohorts.

Sitting on this is just as bad as sitting on the story of MF45's awareness about Covid's severity.

erronis

(14,955 posts)
5. An awful lot of people have written books before and during the asshole's reign of terror.
Wed Jul 14, 2021, 07:31 PM
Jul 2021

Some may have decided to put a historical perspective on their writing. Something that hasn't been possible while the shit-hole has been spewing live on social media.

I'll blame close confidants of the orange anus who haven't published blogs while the inanities were actually happening. Scaramucci(sp?) and others sorta tried. Michael Cohen has. I'd love to hear Hopeful Hick's reminisces about crouching under Resolute, or perhaps (gen)Michael FLying's accounts of his real conversations with Putin/aides/rouble-carriers.

The more that comes out and actually makes it into the real history books, the better. The more prosecutions and penalties, the best!

hydrolastic

(479 posts)
7. Miley was there at Lafayette sq with tfg where military helicopters and resources were used!
Thu Jul 15, 2021, 04:51 AM
Jul 2021

Now he says he was worried about a reichstag moment?....not buying it

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