Trump Responds to Military Coup Accusation
By Tyler O’Neil
In remarks reported in a forthcoming book, Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, compared President Donald Trump to the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and his supporters to Nazi brownshirts. Milley said he feared a military coup from Trump, who had decided to contest the results of the 2020 election. Trump responded to the accusation in a blistering statement on Thursday.
“Despite massive Voter Fraud and Irregularities during the 2020 Presidential Election Scam, that we are now seeing play out in very big and important States, I never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government. So ridiculous!” the former president wrote.
Trump insisted that the only way he would want to gain or hold on to power would be through an election. He also went on the offensive against Milley.
“Sorry to inform you, but an Election is my form of ‘coup,’ and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley. He got his job only because the world’s most overrated general, James Mattis, could not stand him, had no respect for him, and would not recommend him,” Trump argued. “To me the fact that Mattis didn’t like him, just like Obama didn’t like him and actually fired Milley, was a good thing, not a bad thing. I often act counter to people’s advice who I don’t respect.”
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Trump said he lost respect for Milley after the general joined him in the infamous walk to St. John’s Church across from the White House. Amid the protests and riots after the death of George Floyd, arsonists had set St. John’s Church on fire, and Trump had gone to the church to show solidarity. The legacy media attacked him for supposedly having nearby Lafayette Square cleared solely for this photo op, but Trump did not order the square cleared for this purpose.
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