Brownshirts in the Streets
General Mark Milley, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, feared a possible Trump coup telling his aids “This is a Reichstag moment,” and “The gospel of the Führer.”
Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post reporters, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, document the chaos and lies that lead to Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the election in their new book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year.” They report that Giuliani’s plan was to just lie and claim Trump won every contested state. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Miley, compared Trump’s lies of election fraud to 1933 Germany and the MAGA Mob to “brownshirts in the streets.”
Gen. Mark A. Milley speaks with members of the military as he arrives for a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 11, 2020. (Al Drago/for The Washington Post)
By Reis Thebault
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 reelection, comparing his rhetoric to Adolf Hitler’s during the rise of Nazi Germany and asking confidants whether a coup was forthcoming, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters.
As Trump ceaselessly pushed false claims about the 2020 presidential election, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, grew more and more nervous, telling aides he feared that the president and his acolytes might attempt to use the military to stay in office, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker report in “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year.”
Gen. Mark Milley worried about what the president might do to maintain power after losing reelection, according to new reporting in Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker's book 'I Alone Can Fix It.' The Morning Joe panel discusses.