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

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

“He is the most dangerous person ever,” Milley informed Woodward for his ebook “War,” in response 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 mentioned.

Part of Milley’s warning about Trump revolves across the former president’s promise to get revenge on his perceived political enemies. Trump has often informed his supporters on the marketing campaign path: “I am your retribution.” Milley, who clashed with Trump within the White House and who has since been publicly vital of the present Republican presidential nominee, informed Woodward that he’s afraid of being recalled from retirement to be court-martialed if Trump wins the election subsequent month.

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

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

Woodward’s ebook additionally particulars a tense Oval Office dialogue Milley had with Trump and his second secretary of protection, Mark Esper. Trump reportedly wished to get revenge on, or probably court-martial, William McRaven, the retired Navy admiral who led the 2011 mission wherein al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was killed. Trump was enraged that the retired admiral publicly criticized him.

Milley informed Woodward he was capable of mollify Trump by saying he would “take care” of it however then warned McRaven and different former army commanders to maintain off the “public stage” for some time and ease up on their criticisms of Trump.

The Trump marketing campaign didn’t reply to a HuffPost request for remark about Milley’s reported feedback to Woodward.

Milley’s tales about Trump within the White House are just like recollections from different army figures, together with retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, who was Trump’s chief of employees. As famous by the Guardian, Kelly mentioned Trump reportedly insisted that generals ought to be “like the German generals” serving beneath Adolf Hitler throughout World War II, who have been “totally loyal.”

On the marketing campaign path this 12 months Trump has mentioned he’d be a “dictator” on his first day in workplace. He has additionally repeatedly used explicitly fascist rhetoric whereas speaking about immigrants within the United States.

Milley is just not alone in his evaluation that Trump is a fascist.

Robert Paxton, thought-about one of many foremost students of fascism, initially declined to name Trump a fascist throughout his rise to the White House in 2016, however he modified his tune after the Jan. 6, 2021, assault 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 on 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.”