Ret. Gen. Milley says America will 'be okay' under Trump, after reportedly saying he was 'fascist to the core'

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired Gen. Mark Milley went from reportedly informing that President-elect Donald Trump is "fascist to the core" to saying that the United States volition beryllium good nether his leadership.

Many of Trump’s harshest critics person gone from cautioning that helium would beryllium a menace to democracy to speaking positively astir however America volition fare nether him, present that helium won the statesmanlike election. 

Milley’s purported claims astir Trump being "fascist" and "the astir unsafe idiosyncratic to this country" successful a forthcoming book by Washington Post subordinate exertion Bob Woodward look to person gone by the wayside arsenic helium spoke astir America’s aboriginal astatine a caller event. 

"Bottom enactment is respire deep, America’s going to beryllium okay," helium told MSNBC big Stephanie Ruhle astatine a Pallas Foundation lawsuit shown connected the network. "There is simply a batch of waves retired there, but this is simply a big, beardown country. 380 cardinal people. Great institutions, large people, large workforce, and a large younger cohort of radical that are gonna support America."

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Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley went from reportedly informing President-elect Trump is "fascist to the core" to saying that America volition beryllium good nether his incoming leadership.

MSNBC besides showed him speaking to their big astatine the aforesaid lawsuit and saying that the Pentagon has a agelong past of reforms from incoming Secretaries of Defense.

"Every azygous Secretary of Defense has travel successful with the thought of ‘reforming’ the Pentagon. It is extraordinarily hard and it takes, successful my presumption — archetypal of all, it takes mature enactment and it takes an alliance, oregon an alignment, I should say, betwixt the Hill, the senators and congressmen up connected the Hill who walk the laws," helium said.

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Milley went connected to reason that incoming Trump allies person the imaginable to bring "helpful" reforms to the Pentagon oregon trim it to "rubble."

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FILE - Then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a quality league astatine the Pentagon successful Washington, July 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

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"If each you’re going to bash is travel successful with a wrecking shot and conscionable stroke things apart, past what you’re going to get is rubble. And if that’s what you want, that’s awesome if you privation rubble, but that’s not going to support the United States," helium said. 

Milley added, "So we perfectly person to alteration the Pentagon and it’s going to instrumentality an effort. And industry-outside guys similar Elon, Vivek and whoever – sure, they tin beryllium precise adjuvant but they – it has to beryllium done correctly."