'Tucker Carlson Tonight' host claims the general was 'undermining' the Trump White House
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Good evening and
welcome to
Tucker Carlson tonight,
Heres a story weve completely
forgotten about, because there
are so many
just before last Novembers
presidential election, two
former army officers, wrote an
open letter to the chairman of
the joint Chiefs of staff men,
who still has the job.
The letter became public. It was
published on the left wing blog
called defense, one and within
minutes was all over the
internet.
The authors of the letter had a
direct order from Mark Milley
who, strictly speaking, did not
report from them.
If Donald Trump refuses to
leave off. As the letter began,
the United States Military must
remove him by force, and you must
give that order.
You must remove the president by
force
thats a little shocking. What
country is this?
Even the usual powermad
partisans in the news media
began to wonder if thatS, a
really good idea,
slate dot com of all places
reminded its readers that no
matter how Orange Donald Trump
might be military coups
generally turn out to be unwise
for the Pentagon had to go on
the record as opposing it too.
The rest of us could keep
civilian control of our
government and what a week that
was paid within days, the story
just kind of receded,
another weird footnote to a
weird four years, but if you
paused for a second, you had to
wonder: where did that idea even
come from?
Did two former? U dot s? Military
officers really just suggest
removing the President of
United States by force of arms,
since when do american military
officers talk like that or think
like that, and do a lot of them
have views like that.
We push that consideration from
our minds, but we shouldnt have
now. We know that Mark Milley
himself is the sort of sin who
considers military coups
entirely within the realm of
possibility.
A new book written by reporters
at the Washington Post, who
cover Mark Milley, reveals the
current chairman of the joints.
Chief of staff is a legitimate
extremist
hes, the last person you would
give power to if you could
possibly help it
in the book. He describes
Donald Trump in the millions of
people who supported them as
the moral equivalent of
Adolf Hitler.
Thousands of trump supporters
peacefully gathered in
Washington for what they assumed
was a constitutionally protected
political rally, the kind we
have had for hundreds of years,
certainly after the election
mark, Milley lining them to the
Nazi party.
He explained his advisors out
loud were actually calls for.
This is the gospel of the
fuehrer.
Those are quotes. Think about
that.
Your grandfather joined the: U Dot S
military, to go overseas, to risk
his life to fight in the Nazis.
Now the head of the? U dot S
military calls you a nazi for
having your grandfathers
political views.
What do you call that
even mind that Mark Milley is a
man? The media tells us is a deep
intellectual, someone who reads,
books and stuff, not just
Wikipedia, and yet this well read.
Man of history is comparing
nearly half of our country to
Adolf Hitler, and that would
include the many Hispanics in
the Rio Grande Valley who voted
for Donald Trump. They agree
with him on immigration,
hes, not just his guy with
crackpot views. Mark Milley has
control of nuclear weapons.
Are we okay with it?
The people on tv are okay with
it.
You read what Milley was
doing, which is obeying the
constitution.
It standing up to the oath that
he and serving members have
taken.
I mean that is what a general
does
General Milley and his team
in the military, with the courage
to stand up to realize that
something was going horribly off
the rails with the president of
the United States,
thank Goodness General Milley
was there and other generals. I
think all saw this guys flaws.
His jaw dropped
theres no other way around it.
Maybe the guy was going to make
darn sure that those guns were
not used.
You think of General Milley
and you think of someone who
chooses every word with
intention and is a student of
history
and to use the words like Nazi
says a lot.
He is a student of
history.
They are easy to impress over on
CNN, make reference to Nazis and
you must be a highbrow grad school god.
If you compare the enemy to.
If you compare the enemy to
Nazis, you know you are a
Princeton guy.
The problem is hes, a lot more
powerful than they are
according to
the Washington Post account.
The mark, Milley is the reason. Th
thousands of american soldiers
occupied the capital ahead of
Joe Bidens inauguration
were going to put a ring of
steel around the city and the
Nazis arent getting in
referring to Milley citizens,
a ring of steel to rappel, the
Qanon shaman and several senior
citizens from Orlando.
This is guy who is paid to
assess threats.
What country poses a threat to
the United States?
Put them in order,
if you think the Qanon shaman is
the same as the ss. Maybe you
are not so good at that,
then he gave a speech out of the
1990s Bruce Willis. Everything
is going to be. Okay,
we are going to have a peaceful
transfer of power
were going to land this plane
safely. This is America, its
strong,
the institutions are bending,
but it wont break
in the end. No Nazi attack ever
came much to mark Milleys
apparent disappointment.
It wasnt Dunkirk.
He think that would be an
embarrassment to mark Milley. To
give a speech like that- and
nothing happens.
Some guy dressed, like Chewbacca,
shows up, but no he was not
embarrassed.
In fact, he gave a speech
testimony to Congress and a said,
apparently not referring to
himself that he understands
white rage better than anyone.
I do think its important
actually for those of us in
uniform to be open, minded and be
widely read
in the United States. Military
academy is a university and it
is important that we train and
we understand-
and I want to understand, white
rage and im White and I want
to understand it.
So what is it that caused
thousands of people to assault
this building and try to
overturn the constitution of the
United States of America?
What caused that?
I want to find that out and
maintain an open mind, and I do
want to analyze it
its important. We understand
that, because our soldiers,
Marines and guardians they come
from the american people, so it
is important that the leaders
now and in the future do
understand it.
White rage, just a
casual racial slur.
These people have no self
awareness,
but he tells us he spent many
hours reading Robin Dangelo
learning about white rage, but
that white rage never came
mark. Milley was not deterred by
that
soon. After the election he began
informally planning with other
military leaders strategizing
how they would block trumps
order to use the military in a
way they deemed dangerous or
illegal.
Wait. A second pause here for a
moment
as the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of staff, the guy who is
empowered by our constitution,
our democracy, to make this
decision
now hes. Not
he cant make them
independently.
If he disagrees, he can resign,
but he cant make them
independently,
but he kept going
in early January Nancy Pelosi
pressed for specifics for
Mark Milley.
She wanted to know what the
generals had done to help her.
She wanted to know if they were
doing things that were illegal,
taking control of the military
from civilian elected leaders
and Mark Milley didnt blush. He
confirmed they had done just
that.
Maam Milley told
Nancy Pelosi, I assure you. We
have checks and balances in the
system
yeah they are written into the
constitution. According to the
post, some of those checks and
balances he referred to involved
undermining the elected
presidents authority to choose
the director of the CIA
interesting. A lot of focus on
the CIA tells you what kind of
power they have
when the president, reportedly
considering firing, who runs the
CIA and replacing her in the
closing days of his
administration. We now know that
Milley pressured the chief of
staff not to do that asked what
the hell is going on here.
Would you guys doing
this? Is lunacy not how the
government should work?
The chief should not be having
this conversation. He should
leave if he cant keep his views
to himself.
That quote alone is grounds for
Mark Milleys, immediate firing
from his job.
No chairman of the joint Chiefs
has say over CIA appointees,
no one in the military does
they cant
talk about a threat to our
system,
and yet the Washington Post
thinks its fine, because the
president at the time was
talking about election fraud
inciting an insurrection
scary.
We already know that Milley had
control of the military long
before the election even took
place
on February 29th of last year,
the Trump administration reached
a deal with the Taliban to end:
U Dot S military involvement in the
country. After only twenty years
immediately, the Pentagon led by
Mark Milley, conspired to kill
the deal which they are not
allowed to do under our
constitution, but they did it
anyway.
According to reporting by the
gray zone with startling,
quickness and Pentagon
leadership exploited, the
open ended terms of the
cease fire to derail the
implementation of the
agreement.
No informed person denies that
have been. It did.
Mckenzie testified before
Congress to be determined by
conditions on the ground,
meaning the decision will be
made not by civilian leaders
but by the Pentagon
again threat to democracy.
Anyone
there it is
acting unilaterally. The Pentagon
launched more than thirty drone
attacks and eight night raids
against the Taliban, and within
weeks the peace deal was dead.
They killed it.
Voters had no say in this:
they operated completely
independently
a little scarier and then the
Qanon shaman.
The same justification that
Mark Milley used later in late,
twenty million two hundred and two thousand and twenty to overrule Donald Trum
order to pull out of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan,
Milley was told the president
was only possible to remove half
of all forces there. Not all
no one in the media seems
concerned about any of this
affect the Washington Post,
which supports authoritarianism,
is already published. An op ed,
saying that Mark Milley is a
hero.
There are nazis amongst us. You,
therefore, we need to get rid of
the filibuster.
Follow that logic.
They also trying to prove that
Mark Milley smiled at
Michelle Obama when Joe Biden
was getting inaugurated.
The question is: why is
Mark Milley still in command of
the? U dot S military.
Transcript generated on 2021-07-17.