Top US general said Trump spread 'gospel of the Führer' and threatened US democracy with 2020 election lies: new book
John Haltiwanger
Wed, July 14, 2021, 3:58 PM·4 min read
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A top US general likened Trump to Hitler over his lies about the 2020 election, a new book says.
He was concerned that Trump was stoking unrest as an excuse to deploy combat troops.
"These are the same people we fought in World War II," Milley reportedly said after the Jan. 6 riot.
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Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said former President Donald Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results put him in the same camp as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, according to a new book by two Washington Post reporters, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker.
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