Responding to a bombshell report that top US generals feared he would attempt a Nazi-style coup, former President Donald Trump issued a statement denying the report and somehow ended up admitting that he would have done it if he had a different chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
“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!” Trump wrote in the statement. “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.”
The twice-impeached former president went on to claim that he only hired Milley out of spite because President Barack Obama had fired him.
“I often act counter to people’s advice who I don’t respect,” Trump wrote. “In any event, I lost respect for Milley when we walked together to St. John’s Church (which was still smoldering from a Radical Left fire set the day before), side by side, a walk that has now been proven to be totally appropriate — and the following day Milley choked like a dog in front of the Fake News when they told him they thought he should not have been walking with the President, which turned out to be incorrect. He apologized profusely, making it a big story, instead of saying I am proud to walk with and protect the President of the United States. Had he said that, it would have been all over, no big deal, but I saw at that moment he had no courage or skill, certainly not the type of person I would be talking ‘coup’ with. I’m not into coups!”
As expected Twitter users had to respond. Check some of the highlights below.
Trump weighs in with a lengthy statement about General 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” pic.twitter.com/FYAixNygA6
— davidshepardson (@davidshepardson) July 15, 2021
This is the dumbest and most obviously trumpian confession ever. That he uses a bizarre coup denial to conflate coups with elections and attack the character of two US generals and a former president before finally pivoting to racebaiting and confederacy beatification is stunning
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) July 15, 2021
Trump with his OJ moment:
"…If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley…."
— Will Steakin (@wsteaks) July 15, 2021
This nonsensical response to the reporting just confirms he most certainly did. #TrumpCoup https://t.co/2znv65F5uy
— Lena Holubnychy (@tomtomlena) July 15, 2021
In this batshit crazy statement, the former president says he would not have chosen to "do a coup" with JCS Chair Milley, and now says he says he elevated Milley to that position out of spite. pic.twitter.com/DlBt0guoBS
— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) July 15, 2021
Yep, @IsaacDovere is right, this is an appalling abrogation of the subjunctive. https://t.co/uQvJLQQh9D
— Andrew Beatty (@AndrewBeatty) July 15, 2021
This is not very reassuring. https://t.co/JlFBmw9m6j
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 15, 2021
Trump has me thinking. If i was going to do a coup, who would i do it with?
— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 15, 2021
Like lots of Trump statements, genuinely dangerous stuff disguised as a troll (lol you thought that was real???). He seems to be at least as concerned with reassuring extremist supporters about his competence in a hypothetical coup (he mentions it twice) as he is denying a coup. https://t.co/aeqe066LIR
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) July 15, 2021
Translation: I planned a coup, but like everything else I do, it was an incompetent shitshow.
— Frank Finns (@FinnsFrank) July 15, 2021
The amount of stupid shit he admits to in this https://t.co/CF3xnxBAmu
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 15, 2021
TRANSLATION: I tried a coup and it failed because I had the wrong chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. https://t.co/7Lbr9iUP4c
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 15, 2021
ideally the president would spend zero time thinking about which generals would help him stage a coup.
Trump spent more time than that. https://t.co/7Lbr9iUP4c
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 15, 2021
