Updated (July 16, 2021) of the following story from here (Business Insider) - short synopsis:
· Gen. Mark Milley reportedly warned Trump not to
take military action against Iran after the election.
· Milley told Trump he would “have a f--king war
with Iran if the U.S. struck.” (New book's excerpt).
· This new book by The New Yorker's Susan Glasser and The NY Times' Peter Baker comes out next year.
Note: Susan Glasser's
comment from the above article that I found very compelling is this: “This account
of a behind-the-scenes struggle over Iran involving Milley and Trump — a secret
backdrop to the public drama unleashed by Trump’s unprecedented refusal to
accept the Presidential-election results — comes from some of the nearly
two hundred interviews, with a variety of sources, that I have conducted along
with my husband, the Times reporter Peter Baker, for a book on the
Trump Presidency that will be published next year.”
Gen. Mark Milley, Chairman of the JCS, feared that then
president Trump would take military action against Iran at the end of his
presidency and he repeatedly warned him not to, according to this report from
The New Yorker, and from an upcoming book about Trump's
presidency, in the book cited below, with Milley warning: “If you do this,
you're gonna have a f--king war.”
Added to this update:
(Milley told the president and his foreign-policy advisors who had pushed for a missile strike on the Middle Eastern country after Trump lost the 2020 election).
Original Post Below:
Headlines
from AFP News – pretty startling to say the least:
“Top U.S. general feared Trump
'Reichstag' power seizure: book”
The Pentagon's top general feared late last year that
then-president Donald Trump would abrogate the constitution to retain power in
a move resembling Adolf Hitler's 1933 Reichstag takeover, according to a new
book.
Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley saw Trump's refusal to
accept defeat to Joe Biden in the November election as a possible sign that he
intended to retain power by any means, according
to excerpts from the book by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip
Rucker (Amazon seen here) that were reported on by the Post and CNN
(July 15).
In the book: “I Alone Can Fix It,” due for release next
week, it offers the most disturbing insight yet into how Trump's refusal to
accept his election defeat was seen inside the government. For example:
When Trump called for a march on Washington by supporters in November, Milley, who had been appointed by Trump, expressed worries that he was deploying “brownshirts in the streets,” (the book says, referring to Hitler's violent followers).
As Trump persisted in claiming, with no evidence,
that he was cheated from a second term by fraud and planned another rally on
January 6 – when his followers attacked the Congress – Milley schemed with
other top officials to resign, one by one, to signal that they would not go
along with any coup by the outgoing president.
Milley said and his aides recounted for the book: “This is a Reichstag moment... The gospel of the Fuhrer. They may try, but they're not going to f**king 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 the guns.”
Milley had already earlier in the year resisted Trump's
desire to call out regular troops to confront BLM protests in multiple cities.
That left Milley highly suspicious of Trump's motivations,
especially after the election, when Trump began replacing top officials,
including at the Pentagon, with close loyalists even though he only had weeks
left in office.
The book says: “Milley told his staff that he believed Trump
was stoking unrest, possibly in hopes of an excuse to invoke the Insurrection
Act and call out the military.”
My 2 Cents: Books mostly
contain good information and are historical in nature – this article shows that in
spades, in my view.
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