Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals | The New Yorker
▻https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals
How Mark Milley and others in the Pentagon handled the national-security threat posed by their own Commander-in-Chief.
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“Can you imagine what a group of people who are much more capable could have done?”
It turned out that the generals had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty. The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
“Which generals?” Kelly asked.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.