A book about the last year of the most eccentric American president is published.
General Mark Millie, the chief of staff of the United States, feared that former leader Donald Trump and his allies would try to carry out a coup or take “other dangerous and illegal measures” after the defeat of the Republicans in the November 2020 presidential election. .
This is stated in The Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, “I Can Do It Myself,” dedicated to Trump last year in office.
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The book, written by Pulitzer Prize winners WP reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, is due out next week. However, excerpts from it have already been published on the publication's website.
The authors interviewed more than 140 participants, including senior officials from the Trump administration, his friends and advisers. Almost everyone spoke to journalists on condition of anonymity. Many of them quoted Millie. In the book, he is portrayed “ as a man who tried to preserve democracy because he believed he was on the verge of collapse.“
Millie and other senior chiefs of staff have discussed the resignation plan one by one, according to CNN. The point is that they did not want to carry out the “ illegal, dangerous and ruthless“ demands of the former American leader. It should be noted that, for the first time in the recent history of the United States, a senior officer tasked with advising the president himself has confronted the commander-in-chief for fear of attempting a coup after losing the election.
The book also says that Millie received a warning from an “old friend” that Republican supporters would try to “overthrow the government.” The general, along with other members of the Chiefs of Staff Committee, unofficially discussed various ways to defend the former president.
According to journalists, Marek Milli's concerns were related, among other things, to personnel changes made after the presidential election. This includes the removal of Attorney General William Barr, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, and the appointment of Trump's supporters to key positions at the Pentagon. According to the general, these permutations “ foreshadowed something sinister & # 39; & # 39 ;, so he always had to be “ careful & # 39; & # 39 ;.
“They can (former president and his supporters.” MK) try a coup, but they will definitely not succeed in this, “Milli told his aides. & ndash; guys with guns. & # 39; & # 39;
In addition, Milli warned his subordinates that Donald Trump allegedly provoked unrest in order to take advantage of the law to suppress the insurgency by the army. The general considered the ex-president a “ classic authoritarian leader who had nothing to lose“. and even trace some parallels between Adolf Hitler's rhetoric about “sacrifice and savior” and Trump's statement about electoral fraud, the authors write. Milli likened the situation in the United States at the time to the burning of the Reichstag in 1933, “which Hitler used as an excuse to establish a Nazi dictatorship.”
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Meanwhile & nbsp; After one of the briefings discussing the upcoming march of Republican supporters intending to protest the announced election results, the chief of staff reportedly said his speech was seriously concerned about the US analogue of “brown shirts on the streets.” `
Recall that the victory in the US presidential election in 2020 was won by Democratic candidate Joe Biden. His opponent, Republican Donald Trump, refused to accept the results of the vote, believing they had been falsified.
On January 6, supporters of the former US leader attacked the US Congress building in Washington and adjourned meetings to approve the results of the presidential election … Five people died in the incident, including a protester shot by police and a chapter. Congressmen were evacuated to safety just minutes before a crowd of protesters broke into conference rooms. Biden called the incident a riot and accused Trump of inciting, the US Congress has demanded indictment of Republicans.