General Mark Milley also saw parallels between Trump’s claims of election fraud and Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric in Nazi Germany, the book says.
A new book claims that General Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon was so worried about a coup attempt during the 2020 presidential election that top brass drew up contingency plans to stop a power grab by President Trump. As the former president pushed his narrative about a stolen election, the nation’s top military officer worried Mr. Trump or his supporters could attempt a coup, Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker write in the forthcoming book, “I Alone Can Fix It.” “They may try, but they’re not going to f—ing succeed,” Milley is quoted as saying.
