Ex–Official Is Scared of Trump’s Fascist Revenge Plans
Donald Trump’s perceived enemies are legitimately afraid of retribution from the Republican presidential nominee should he win on election night.
They include retired U.S. Army general and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, whose tiffs with Trump include intense exchanges over critical race theory and serving as a witness against Trump during the House Select Committee’s January 6 investigation.
“He is a walking, talking advertisement of what he’s going to try to do,” Milley “warned” former colleagues, according to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, War.
“He’s saying it and it’s not just him, it’s the people around him,” Milley said, fearing a potential court-martial, according to the book.
And there’s reason to be frightened. Steve Bannon, a Trump ally imprisoned for defying a federal subpoena, reportedly confirmed the target on Milley’s back, promising last November that “we’re gonna hold him accountable.” Bannon’s temporary War Room substitute host, Natalie Winters, took that threat a little further, vowing Thursday that Trump’s retribution tour will involve prosecuting his enemies for treason.
“If you want a definition of what justice or retribution looks like, it’s going to look like Steven K. Bannon sitting in this chair providing live commentary during the trials and eventual prison sentences of people like Victoria Nuland, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden,” Winters said. “We’ll throw Jack Smith in there too. It will be Steve providing commentary on you guys going to prison. Opening bid is treason, but I’m sure we will find a lot more.”
Milley has gone head-to-head with Trump several times since he was instituted as the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in 2019. In Trump’s final months in office, the ex-president posted on Truth Social that he considered a meeting between Milley and a Chinese general as a “treasonous act” that was “so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!”
Last year, Milley highlighted the absurdity of Trump’s campaign and his administrative rule, which has placed a premium on loyalty to his vision and self above all else.
“We don’t take an oath to a king, or queen, or tyrant or a dictator, and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator,” Milley told a military audience at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall at the time. “We don’t take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it.”