US top general feared Trump's election fraud complaint was a 'Reichstag moment'

[Judi Lynn]

By Reis Thebault
July 15, 2021 — 3.45pm

Washington: In the waning weeks of Donald Trump’s term, the country’s top military leader repeatedly worried about what the president might do to maintain power after losing re-election, comparing his rhetoric to Adolf Hitler’s during the rise of Nazi Germany and asking confidantes whether a coup was forthcoming.

As Trump pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, grew more and more nervous, telling aides he feared that the president and his acolytes may attempt to use the military to stay in office, according to a new book titled I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year by Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.

Milley described “a stomach-churning” feeling as he listened to Trump’s untrue complaints of election fraud, drawing a comparison to the 1933 attack on Germany’s parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to establish a Nazi dictatorship.

“This is a Reichstag moment,” Milley told aides, according to the book. “The gospel of the Fuhrer.”

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Milley - who was widely criticised last year for appearing alongside Trump in Lafayette Square after protesters were forcibly cleared from the area - had pledged to use his office to ensure a free and fair election with no military involvement. But he became increasingly concerned in the days following the November contest, making multiple references to the onset of 20th century fascism.

More:
https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/us-top-general-feared-trump-s-election-fraud-complaint-was-a-reichstag-moment-20210715-p58a0z.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If Trump gave the order, would the Military have obeyed?

[David__77]

2. There's been no indication that there would have been disobidience.

Resignations would not have been disobedience.

[Skittles]

4. America is stronger than Donald Fucking Trump

I don't believe they would have obeyed, no.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Senior leadership made clear before they were loyal to US constitution.

Not to Donald Trump.

[Yoyoyo77]

3. Update.

It's been reported that Milley and the rest of the joint chiefs decided that they would resign one by one
if they were given an illegal order.

[lees1975]

5. This can't ever happen again

so remember that the next time you think about skipping an election.

[hydrolastic]

6. Miley was there at Lafayette sq with tfg

He would have done anything he was asked to do. Six months later he says different...