Senator Lindsey Graham took a shot at Mark Milley, a top general in Donald Trump’s administration, for calling the former president a “total fascist” - insisting that he is “wrong” as he tore into the veteran‘s record in the US Army.
“He has a right to his opinion. This is the man who oversaw 20 years of training of the Afghan-Iraqi army that folded like a cheap suit,” Graham said Sunday when asked about by Meet the Press anchor Kristen Welker about Milley’s warning.
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Milley, who was a top general in the former president’s administration, was quoted talking about Trump in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book, War.
The ex-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff referred to Trump as “a total fascist,” and added, “No one has ever been as dangerous to this country.”
In the appearance Sunday, Graham veered away from addressing the comments, and explained why Vice President Kamala Harris was a much scarier possibility than Trump.
“I like General Milley, but I disagree with him. You know what I fear? I fear four more years of a Biden-Harris policy. I fear holding Israel back so they can‘t win the war they have to win to survive. I fear four more years of holding Ukraine back. Four more years of broken borders, four more years of not drilling for oil and gas, four more years of high food prices.”
He continued, “The threat to the world is the policies of this administration. To General Milley, you have a right to your opinion, but I don‘t fear Donald Trump. I fear what’s going on in the world today. If you want the world to stay on fire, vote for her. If you want to keep paying high prices for everything it costs to live, vote for her.”
Welker drove the conversation back to Milley, and included recent claims made by chief of staff John Kelly that Trump was “constant and obsessive” in his demands to “go after” those against his administration.
The tone of the interview devolved as Welker read Kelly’s quote, with Graham speaking over her passionately.
“I think he‘s wrong. I know Trump very well. I think they’re wrong,” he stated repeatedly.
