Gen. Mark Milley reportedly warned Trump not to strike Iran: 'You're gonna have a f---ing war'

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Source: Business Insider

Top US Gen. Mark Milley feared that former President Donald Trump would take military action against Iran at the end of his presidency and repeatedly warned him not to, according to reporting for an upcoming book on the Trump presidency published in the New Yorker on Friday.

"If you do this, you're gonna have a f---ing war," Milley reportedly told the former president and his foreign policy advisors, who had pushed for a missile strike on the Middle Eastern country after Trump lost the 2020 election.

The topic of Iran was frequently raised in White House meetings in the months following the race, with Trump "seemingly willing to do anything to stay in power," according to a co-author of the book, The New Yorker's Susan Glasser. Correspondingly, the New York Times in late November reported that Trump consulted top advisors - including Milley - about potential options for striking Iran's primary nuclear site and was ultimately talked out of it.

At one meeting in which Trump was not present, his advisors had again brought up taking action against Iran. Milley questioned "why they were so intent on attacking the country," Glasser reports.


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Mike Pence and Benjamin Netanyahu pushed Donald Trump to bomb Iran after losing the election: rpt

Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley was reportedly worried that Donald Trump might declare war on Iran as part of a last-ditch attempt to overturn his election loss, according to a New Yorker report on Thursday.

Miley was "engaged in an alarmed effort to ensure that Trump did not embark on a military conflict with Iran as part of his quixotic campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election and remain in power," journalist Susan B. Glasser wrote. "Trump had a circle of Iran hawks around him and was close with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu," she continued, "who was also urging the Administration to act against Iran after it was clear that Trump had lost the election."

The report stems from a forthcoming book by Glasser and her husband, New York Times reporter Peter Baker. It echoes bombshell allegations in another forthcoming book by two Washington Post reporters.

According to Glasser, the former president had floated the idea of engaging militarily with Iran on a number of occasions during his final months in the presidency. His proposals, the book's authors wrote, reflected Trump's seeming willingness "to do anything to stay in power."

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3. Netanyahu pushed Donald Trump for politcal reasons, Pence for religious ones.

[Aristus]

2. I wonder if anyone had told TFG that if he started a war with Iran, he still would be out of office

on Inauguration Day.

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6. I wondered the same thing

“Don’t change horses in midstream” is not a law. There is nothing in the constitution or US law that says the president that starts a war gets to stay in office until it is done.

Even declaring martial law should not have allowed him to stay in office.

Nonetheless i am glad it did not happen.

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4. Milley must have said something else, like maybe threaten the buffoon because the buffoon does not

care about consequences if he thinks the action he wants to take will benefit him, so I have to think there was more said than just "you will have a f---ing war"...

Something that scared the buffoon was said to stop that idiot on his tracks, because otherwise the buffoon would have done it. For him the entire planet can blow up if he thinks it will help him, he doesn't care.

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5. K&R