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Another look at Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book appeared to show how the former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff “clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome.”

Even before then-President Donald Trump had left office, since-retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley had postured himself against the commander-in-chief. Now, an excerpt from “War” was said to reveal just how much animosity the general had as he was quoted referring to the GOP leader as “fascist to the core.”

In a portion of the book cited by Newsweek, the once-highest-ranking officer was said to have contended of the president, “He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country.”

Reacting to the quote, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement, “Woke train-wreck Mark Milley clearly suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome and it’s no surprise he pals around with a washed-up fiction writer like Bob Woodward to peddle lies and misinformation.”

“If Milley spent this much time and effort doing his job, maybe the Afghanistan debacle would have never happened,” he added.

Previously, Milley had admitted to speaking with Woodward for the book “Peril” which included details of phone calls between the then-Joint Chiefs of Staff chair and his Chinese counterpart Gen. Li Zuocheng where he’d said he would warn the Chinese Communist Party if Trump planned any military action. The general had also fessed up to those calls during Congressional testimony where he said, “As part of that conversation, I said, ‘General Li, there’s not gonna be a war; there’s not gonna be an attack between great powers.’ And if there was, the tensions would build up; there would be calls going back and forth from all kinds of senior officials. I said, ‘Hell, I’ll probably give you a call, but we’re not going to attack you. Trust me, we’re not going to attack you.’”

Milley’s posture toward Trump was believed to be included in the general’s retirement speech where he’d said, “We are unique among the world’s militaries. We do not take an oath to a country. We do not take an oath to a tribe, we don’t take an oath to a religion, we don’t take an oath to a king or a queen or a tyrant or a dictator. And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We do not take an oath to an individual.”

“We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it,” he went on, “each of us commits our very life to protect and defend that document, regardless of the personal price, and we are not easily intimidated.”

The general’s opinions of Trump were alleged to have had a measurable impact as four current and former leaders of the Washington, D.C. National Guard had testified to Congress in April that Milley’s warning of a potential “Reichstag moment” on Jan. 6, 2021 had delayed deployment of the Guard in response to protests at the U.S. Capitol.

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