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Top U.S. General Said Trump Preached ‘Gospel of the Führer’
New York Magazine ^ | July 14, 2021 | Ben Jacobs

Posted on 07/14/2021 4:36:37 PM PDT by Trump20162020

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.

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. “This is a Reichstag moment,” he said, referring to the arson attack on Germany’s Parliament that Hitler used as a pretext to assume absolute power and destroy democracy.

“These guys are Nazis, they’re boogaloo boys, they’re Proud Boys. These are the same people we fought in World War II,” Milley said a week after the attack on the Capitol.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: adolfhitler; benjacobs; donaldtrump; godwinslaw; hitler; markmilley; milley; nazi; nazis; sillymilley; tds; trump
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To: montag813

pray to Almighty God that we get through this.

= = =

Problem is that one of these days (years, decades . . .) we will not get through this. Worldly-wise that is.

Is this that cycle of the end? The one we won’t get through?

My priorities and daily activities have changed, more in line with these days being the last ones.


61 posted on 07/14/2021 5:06:29 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: Trump20162020

People from Winchester, MA are notoriously anti-American. Its rather odd.


62 posted on 07/14/2021 5:06:53 PM PDT by GreatRoad ('In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act' )
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To: Trump20162020

“You can’t do this (overturn the stolen election results) without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with guns.”

Any further questions about Trump’s deep state opposition?


63 posted on 07/14/2021 5:06:59 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul (s)
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To: Trump20162020

Millstone is a racist creep.


64 posted on 07/14/2021 5:07:59 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Trump20162020
a new book by two Washington Post reporters

Why the Washington Post Has No Credibility

65 posted on 07/14/2021 5:08:55 PM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: R0CK3T

This General just called half of the country NAZIS.


And more than half of the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines under his command. If that doesn’t make him unfit for duty nothing does. The GOP must insist he resign. They won’t of course.


66 posted on 07/14/2021 5:08:57 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Trump20162020
Milley's forces are moving illegals in large numbers into swing states.

He helping the Biden administration break immigration law.

Watch Tucker tonight to find out more.

67 posted on 07/14/2021 5:09:07 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: ExTxMarine


Paging Charles Bronson....

"Killin' Generals could get to be a habit with me."
68 posted on 07/14/2021 5:10:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ScubaDiver

Trump was also stymied by McConnell from being able to appoint many positions. While I agree that the fact he was not a DC insider and really didn’t have any idea what was motivating many appointees, he did have trouble from the very beginning getting people he could trust. He was sabotaged by his very own party who collaborated with democrats to sandbag every move he made.


69 posted on 07/14/2021 5:12:47 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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To: Trump20162020

Milley spent more time worrying about the Army’s new dress uniform than he did about Afghanistan.


70 posted on 07/14/2021 5:13:39 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: Trump20162020

Kasserine Pass, here we come


71 posted on 07/14/2021 5:16:54 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: Gay State Conservative

There’s still time for that to happen.


72 posted on 07/14/2021 5:17:09 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Jane Long

How many of our trade and national security secrets have been sold to China and Russia by these traitors? I believe our entire national security apparatus has been compromised.


73 posted on 07/14/2021 5:17:12 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Trump20162020

Well, the CJCS is a sick puppy


74 posted on 07/14/2021 5:17:19 PM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: dforest; ScubaDiver

The thing is all of Trump’s picks, good and bad, swore an oath to defend this country. Many violated that.

It seems clear now that many people took jobs in the Trump admin solely to undermine Trump and the MAGA agenda. Never Trump blacklisting and Democrat thuggery also made it difficult to staff up.

Trump is not perfect but we must not judge him without taking the bipartisan coup into consideration. Everything political the past 5 years stems from that, IMO. How different might Trump’s admin been had General Flynn been in his WH, etc.


75 posted on 07/14/2021 5:19:43 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Trump20162020

I’ve recently worked for two retired 4 stars, one Air Force and the other Army. They are 100% political creatures - you don’t get that 4th star by merit, you get it by knowing who to suck up to.


76 posted on 07/14/2021 5:23:29 PM PDT by mgstarr ("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
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To: Trump20162020

the collectivists are in the wire


77 posted on 07/14/2021 5:25:18 PM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: McGruff

It is, but Gen. Milley is a little confused as to what constitutes ‘politics’. Was it politics when Gen. MacArthur cleared the capital of the Bonus Marchers? Was it politics when Marine General Smedley Butler exposed the alleged “Business Plot” against FDR? Seems to me that FDR had a lot of generals and admirals covering his butt.


78 posted on 07/14/2021 5:26:14 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Trump20162020

General Milley mouth


79 posted on 07/14/2021 5:27:05 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: lodi90

I totally agree with you.


80 posted on 07/14/2021 5:27:20 PM PDT by dforest (huh)
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