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13 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"You are an island unto yourself right now,” [JCS Chief Gen. Milley's] friend [told him Election Night]. 'You are not tethered. Your loyalty is to the Constitution. You represent the stability of this republic.'"
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"Milley’s friend added: 'There’s fourth-rate people at the Pentagon. And you have fifth-rate people at the White House. You’re surrounded by total incompetence. Hang in there. Hang tough.'"
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"[SecDef] Esper was a lifelong Republican and had worked at the conservative Heritage Foundation as well as for Republican senators .... But ... as he watched TV news anchors cover the election results, he found himself rooting for the Democrat."

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"[Esper] feared that anything less [than a clear victory for Biden] might give Trump some shred of a reason to call out troops. Later in the evening, as returns posted in Biden’s favor, Esper told a friend, 'It looks good.'"
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15 Jul
“Milley described ‘a stomach-churning’ feeling as he listened to Trump’s untrue complaints of election fraud, drawing a comparison to the 1933 attack on Germany’s parliament building that Hitler used as a pretext to establish a Nazi dictatorship.”

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“‘This is a Reichstag moment,’ Milley told aides, according to the book.
‘The gospel of the Führer.’”

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“After the failed insurrection on Jan. 6, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Milley to ask for his guarantee that Trump would not be able to launch a nuclear strike and start a war.”

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Uh-oh, @AC360 has more Final Days of the Former Guy details from @CarolLeonnig’s and @PhilipRucker’s book ….
.@jamiegangel with the details …. Joint Chiefs were afraid tfg would try a coup. Milley saw tfg as Hitlerian and feared a “Reichstag moment” …
“‘They may try, but they’re not going to f**king succeed,’” is a quote in the chyron.
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10 Jul
Interesting (read: appalling) tidbit from @MichaelCBender's new book, which I've just started to read: Former guy told people he launched the Soleimani airstrike because of his upcoming impeachment trial (no. 1): He wanted to placate GOP senators who urged the strike. (p. 41)
Cipollone and Barr and their staffs had a suicide pact under which, in essence, they'd all resign if Trump ever fired one of them for refusing to do something too insane, or unethical. (p. 49)
Book officially comes out this week, but I came across copies already on display at a bookstore.
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7 Jul
I’ve skimmed former guy’s complaint against Facebook and it’s every bit as stupid as you’d think it is.
It’s stupid on so many levels it’s head-spinning.
It’s insane enough that he’s claiming Facebook’s a state actor. Yes, in extreme cases, if otherwise non-state actors are acting in cahoots with the government, they can become state actors. But that’s an absurdly hard thing to show, and nothing like that occurred here.
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Remember, not even the Biden administration disagreed with the result reached in Voting Rights Act case from Arizona decided today.
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27 Jun
If journalists can uncover all this through the voluntary cooperation of sources, imagine what a commission, select committee, or grand jury could find out with subpoenas.
"'And these people aren’t there for a fucking flower contest,' [said a] co-organizer.
Stockton said ... he and Kremer agreed to call Meadows directly."

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"Soon after, Kremer told Stockton 'the White House would take care of it.' ...
Kremer denied that she ever spoke with Meadows or any other White House official about her Jan. 6 concerns. Meadows declined to comment on whether he’d been contacted."
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