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Former President Donald Trump on Thursday said he’s “not into coups,” further clarifying that even if he was, he wouldn’t want to commit one with Gen. Mark Milley.
An excerpt of the book “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” by Washington Post reporters Phillip Rucker and Carol Leonnig and published by CNN on Wednesday said that Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other top US generals were afraid that Trump could take his desire to overturn the 2020 election to the point of leading a coup. Some top officials even prepared to resign en masse if necessary, the authors wrote.
“I never threatened, or spoke to, anyone about a coup of our government. So ridiculous! Sorry to inform you, but the election is my form of ‘coup’, and if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is Mark General Milley,” Trump said in a lengthy statement. In it, he also blamed Milley’s appointment on Gen. James Mattis, who he described as “the world’s most overrated general.”
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Article URL : https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-says-hes-not-into-coups-gen-mark-milley-response-2021-7