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July 15, 2021, 1:21 pm
Donald Trump has weighed in on the bombshell report that his generals made a pact to resign rather than follow “dangerous” orders in the event that he attempted a coup (other than the thing on January 6, apparently) rather than accepting his election loss to Joe Biden. The comments were published, probably against all legal advice, in one of his little online “statements” that contains remarks which have people comparing him to O.J. Simpson and his infamous book, If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer.
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The statement comes after General Milley, a recent GOP target after he defended the teaching of Critical Race Theory in military academies, and literally contains the phrase “if I was going to do a coup.”
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“Sorry to inform you, but an 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 General Mark Milley,” he wrote. “He got his job only because the world’s most overrated general, James Mattis, could not stand him, had no respect for him, and would not recommend him.”
It’s unclear why a man would get a job because another general hated him, but the more important thing is that the former president made remarks that are being compared to what is widely believed to be a confession to murder.
Trump’s comments come in response to claims made by Carol D. Leonnig and Philip Rucker in their recently released book I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year that Milley and other high-ranking military leaders planned to resign one by one if the former president ordered them to “do a coup.” They reportedly feared that Trump was intentionally fueling unrest throughout the country to use it as an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act and send out military forces to redo the election, making sure it went in his favor this time.
You know, like a coup.
“They may try, but they’re not going to f—ing succeed,” Milley said to his deputies according to excerpts from the book. “You can’t do this without the military. You can’t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We’re the guys with the guns.”
Trump spent most of his statement trashing Milley specifically, bringing up the general’s statements on regretting walking with him to the St. John’s Church after protesters were cleared out with tear gas so he could have a photo op holding up a Bible.
“He apologized profusely, making it a big story, instead of saying I am proud to walk with and protect the President of the United States,” Trump wrote. “Had he said that, it would have been all over, no big deal, but I saw at that moment that he had no courage or skill, certainly not the type of person I would be talking ‘coup’ with.”
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If he did it.
Are there O.J. Simpson jokes? Of course there are.
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*First Published: July 15, 2021, 1:21 pm
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