Donald Trump says he’s ‘not into coups’, trashes top US general Mark Milley
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Former US president Donald Trump insisted that he wouldn’t have used the military to illegally seize control of the government after his election loss. But he suggested that if he had tried to carry out a coup, it wouldn’t have been with his top military adviser.
In a lengthy statement, Trump responded to revelations in a new book detailing fears from General Mark Milley that the outgoing president would stage a coup during his final weeks in office. Trump said he’s “not into coups” and “never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government”.
“He had no courage or skill,” Trump said of Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
At the same time, Trump said that “if I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is” Milley.