Former President Donald Trump sent out a furious mass email to his supporters claiming that the 2020 Presidential Election was “Rigged and Stolen,” and denying the reports, saying that despite “the fact he never once considered using the military to enact a “coup” while blasting reports that his former top generals discussed a plan to resign, one-by-one, rather than carry out any dangerous or illegal orders.
“The writing within these third-rate books are Fake News, and ‘General’ Milley (who Mattis wanted to send to Europe in order to get rid of him), if he said what was reported, perhaps should be impeached, or court-martialed and tried,” Trump said.
He then appeared to confess that the only reason he didn’t discuss a “coup” with Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley is that he “lost confidence in him.”
“Never once did I have a discussion with [Milley] about bringing in the military or a ‘coup,’ which makes sense, because I lost total confidence and the way he handled himself on our little walk to the church.”
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 that were reported by the Post and CNN Thursday.
“This is a Reichstag moment… The gospel of the Fuhrer,” Milley told Pentagon aides, according to the author of the book.
In 1933 Hitler took advantage of a suspicious fire at the Reichstag, the German parliament, to suspend civil liberties and concentrate authority in his government, setting the stage for the Nazi consolidation of power.
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.
“They may try, but they’re not going to f**king succeed,” Milley told his aides, the book recounts. “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,” he said.
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"So, there was no talk of a coup, there was no coup, it all never happened, and it’s just a waste of words by fake writers & a General who didn’t have a clue. What there was, was a Rigged & Stolen election, & those facts have come out, & are coming out, loud & clear." pic.twitter.com/f48bcbxVFE
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) July 16, 2021
