Tucker Carlson demands Biden fire General Mark Milley and says he is an 'extremist with crackpot views' after Joint Chiefs chairman 'compared Trump to Hitler'
Tucker Carlson called on President Joe Biden to fire Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley after the country’s most senior military officer described how he vowed to stop then-President Donald Trump from carrying out a coup.
On his Fox News show on Thursday, Carlson called Milley a ‘legitimate extremist’ after he was quoted as comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler and his supporters as ‘brownshirts.’
Milley, Carlson said, 'compared half our country to Adolf Hitler.'
'Think about that,' Carlson said on Fox News.
'Your grandfather joined the US military to risk his life fighting the Nazis.
'Now the head of the US military calls you a Nazi for having your grandfather's political views.
'What do you think of that?'
Tucker Carlson (left) called on President Joe Biden to fire Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley (right) after the country’s most senior military officer reportedly described how he vowed to stop then-President Donald Trump from carrying out a coup
According to excerpts from a soon-to-be-released book, Milley was so concerned that then-President Donald Trump (seen above in Dallas on Sunday) or his allies might try to use the military to remain in power that he and other top officials strategized about how they might block him - even hatching a plan to resign, one by one
Milley's reported comments were excerpted by CNN which previewed next week's release of the book I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year. The book was written by Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig.
According to excerpts, Milley was so concerned that Trump or his allies might try to use the military to remain in power that he and other top officials strategized about how they might block him - even hatching a plan to resign, one by one.
Milley also reportedly compared Trump's rhetoric to Adolf Hitler's during his rise to power.
'This is a Reichstag moment,' Milley reportedly told aides. 'The gospel of the Führer.'
Carlson on Thursday blasted Milley as a person who holds ‘crackpot views’ and who ‘has control of nuclear weapons.’
He played a clip of CNN panelists on Anderson Cooper’s show praising Milley.
'They're easy to impress over on CNN,' Carlson said.
Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was so convinced that Trump would attempt a coup after his election loss to Joe Biden that he and other senior generals made plans to stop him, according to a new book. Milley is seen left with Trump at the Army-Navy college football game in Philadelphia in December 2018
Milley reportedly referred to Trump supporters as 'brownshirts' and compared the former president to Hitler. The image above shows Trump supporters rioting at the US Capitol on January 6
'Make a reference to Nazis and the Reichstag Fire and you are really high-brow, grad-school history stuff.
'You hear someone compare his political enemies to Nazis, you know for sure he went to Princeton. Pretty funny.'
Carlson referenced a report that Milley and his deputies planned to block Trump if he issued an illegal order to the military to help him seize power after the election.
'Now, wait a second,' Carlson said. 'Is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the guy who's empowered by our Constitution, our democracy, to make those decisions?
'No, he’s not.
'We have civilian leadership, he can't make them independently, if he disagrees, he can resign.
'But he can't make them independently.'
Carlson also referenced another excerpt from a book in which Milley reportedly pressured Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, not to fire the head of the CIA, Gina Haspel, and the FBI, Christopher Wray.
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