Milley feared Trump would attempt a coup

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Top U.S. Gen. Mark Milley feared Trump would attempt a coup after his loss to Biden, new book says. Top-ranking Army Gen. Mark Milley feared in the wake of the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump or his allies might attempt a military coup to stay in power, according to a new book from two Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters. Trump on Thursday denied discussing staging a coup to stay in power – but added that if he were to stage a coup, he wouldn’t want to do it with Milley. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, began informally strategizing in the final months of Trump’s one term in office about how to guard against such an attempt by Trump or those around him, according to “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year,” which comes out next week. But Trump, in a lengthy, insult-laden statement lashing out at Milley over a variety of grievances, said he “never threatened, or spoke about, to anyone, a coup of our Government.” “If I was going to do a coup, one of the last people I would want to do it with is General Mark Milley,” Trump said in the statement, which was sent through his political action committee. (Trump was the worst mistake we could have made in regard to presidential elections.)