Top General Feared Trump's Hitler Moment

martin said:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt/index.html

Several stories this morning based on revelations in new book that General Milley feared Trump was maneuvering post election to stage a military coup. Lord knows he would have if he could,
but the institutions held.
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Milley assured Pelosi that there was no way in hell that trump would succeed. I don't think 'feared' is the correct term. I think 'expected' is more like it, and Milley was damn sure that it was NOT going to happen.
 
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From the OP article ...

"The book, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, describes how Milley and the other Joint Chiefs discussed a plan to resign, one-by-one, rather than carry out orders from Trump that they considered to be illegal, dangerous or ill-advised."

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"Top General Feared Trump's Hitler Moment"

Even though this POS phony gen-gen did refer to adolph ... show me where his generals plotted to resign ...
 
Grumpy said:
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From the OP article ...

"The book, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, describes how Milley and the other Joint Chiefs discussed a plan to resign, one-by-one, rather than carry out orders from Trump that they considered to be illegal, dangerous or ill-advised."

Thead title ...

"Top General Feared Trump's Hitler Moment"

Even though this POS phony gen-gen did refer to adolph ... show me where his generals plotted to resign ...
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Idiot
 
Grumpy said:
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From the OP article ...

"The book, from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, describes how Milley and the other Joint Chiefs discussed a plan to resign, one-by-one, rather than carry out orders from Trump that they considered to be illegal, dangerous or ill-advised."

Thead title ...

"Top General Feared Trump's Hitler Moment"

Even though this POS phony gen-gen did refer to adolph ... show me where his generals plotted to resign ...
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$20 says other generals will confirm it when their books come out. Any insiders to the Trump administration who doesn't cash in on the public's taste for scandal is an idiot.

Trump is a walking, talking scandal machine. He controlled his image as a private citizen but he can't control it as a public one. His lawyers and advisors warned him about this in 2015.
 
Milley's level of crazy was in art all the way back in the 60's...

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Dutch Uncle said:
What about Trump's level of crazy? Any comments there?
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Trump wasn't calling for nuking places left and right, and most of the time he was just a major troll and self-aggrandizing braggard. In any case, it doesn't give a US military general the right or legal authority to countermand his orders or keep information from him.
 
martin said:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt/index.html

Several stories this morning based on revelations in new book that General Milley feared Trump was maneuvering post election to stage a military coup. Lord knows he would have if he could,
but the institutions held.
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Well tRump's Hitler moment got the historical over 81 million voters' boot! Hopefully it will come time for tRump to have a moment of Justice being levied against him in particular for numerous high crimes.
 
reagansghost said:
wrong, any officer or enlisted man has the right to refuse an order is they believe that order is illegal

you didn't know this?
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Bullshit. You better be absolutely sure it's illegal. Otherwise you are finished on the spot. Believing it's illegal isn't enough. You have to be absolutely, positively, sure it is and you better ask two or three times before refusing to carry it out.
It's obvious you never served in the military if you think you can casually refuse an order because you think it's illegal.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Bullshit. You better be absolutely sure it's illegal. Otherwise you are finished on the spot. Believing it's illegal isn't enough. You have to be absolutely, positively, sure it is and you better ask two or three times before refusing to carry it out.
It's obvious you never served in the military if you think you can casually refuse an order because you think it's illegal.
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a lifer should already know all this shit.......but since the UCMJ isn't one of your strong points check this out, sarge

The military is a hierarchical organization. Some degree of obedience to the orders of superior officers is required for the organization to function. But those who serve in the U.S. military are not automatons, and they are not asked to surrender all independent moral judgment when they sign their enlistment papers. American servicemembers are defending a nation of laws, not of men. Their obligation to obey the orders of their superiors does not include orders that are palpably illegal.


https://warontherocks.com/2017/07/when-can-a-soldier-disobey-an-order/
 
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