Former President Donald Trump’s suggestion on Election Day that the U.S. military should be used to deal with the “enemy from within” may lead to an increase in U.S. forces if he wins a second term as commander in chief. There are renewed concerns about what to ask for.
And the people who are sounding the alarm most clearly about President Trump are the military leaders who served under him.
Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells Bob Woodward in his new book, War, that the former president is “the most dangerous person to this country.” …He’s a fascist through and through. ”
And on Thursday, Woodward said on the podcast “The Bulwark” that he received an email from Gen. Jim Mattis, President Trump’s secretary of defense, saying he agreed with the assessment Milley provided to Woodward. said. Woodward said on his podcast that the gist of Mattis’ email about Trump was “let’s not downplay the threat. It’s a big threat.”
Trump has long had a boyish admiration for the military, admiring World War II generals George Patton and Douglas MacArthur. As a teenager, he enjoyed life at a military-style boarding school in New York.
Despite its appeal, Trump took multiple postponements to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
When Trump became president, he placed senior generals in his cabinet. He appointed Mattis, a retired four-star general, to head the Pentagon. His chief of staff, John Kelly, was also a retired four-star general. And two of his national security advisers were three-star generals, Michael Flynn and H.R. McMaster.
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