Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certification

Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

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Trump’s top general calls ex-president [Donald J. Trump] ‘fascist to the core’ and ‘most dangerous person to this country,’ new book says. General Mark Milley expressed his concerns about Trump to author Bob Woodward in March 2023
by Andrew Feinberg
UK Independent
10/11/24

Mark Milley, the US Army general who Donald Trump appointed as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, now says the current Republican presidential nominee is a “fascist to the core” and says no person has ever posed more of a danger to the United States than the man who served as the 45th President of the United States.

Milley, a decorated military officer who became a target for right-wing scorn after it became known that he expressed concerns over Trump’s mental stability in the wake of his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden, is described by journalist Bob Woodward in his new book, War, as incredibly alarmed at the prospect of a second Trump term in the White House. The Independent obtained a copy ahead of the book’s October 15 release date.

In the wake of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by a riotous mob of the then-president’s supporters, Woodward writes that Milley insisted on securing a meeting with the then-newly-minted attorney general, Merrick Garland, to urge him to investigate domestic violent extremism and far-right militia movements.

According to Woodward, a senior Department of Justice lawyer said at the time that Milley’s sit-down with Garland might have been the first-ever meeting between a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the country’s top civilian law enforcement official. He writes that the general asked for the meeting because he was “deeply convinced” that Trump remained “a danger to the country” even though he had been forced from office after Biden’s election win.


Woodward writes that when he approached Milley at a reception, the general spoke first and told him: “We gotta talk.”

He told the journalist that “no one has ever been as dangerous to this country” as the former president.

He asked: “Do you realize, do you see what this man is?”


Milley, who had been a source for Woodward’s last book, Peril, said he’d “glimpsed” Trump’s true nature when they previously spoke during the writing of that 2021 release, but he said he now knew exactly what the ex-president is.

“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,” he said.

“A fascist to the core,” Milley repeated.


The general’s private comments to Woodward, which have not been previously reported, were echoed in cutting remarks Milley made publicly at his September 2023 retirement ceremony, when, without mentioning Trump’s name, he appeared to take a swipe at the ex-president.

In the impassioned speech, he defiantly said the US military is “unique” among the world’s fighting forces because it does not profess fealty to any one person.

““We don’t take an oath to a country, we don’t 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,” he said.

Apparently referencing Trump, he immediately added: “And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator!”

““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 said.
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Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

Postby admin » Sat Oct 19, 2024 1:35 am

Shirkey to Jan. 6 panel: 3 lawyers, including Hillsdale leader, pressed for fake electors
by Beth LeBlanc
The Detroit News
12/28/2022
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 762604007/

[Karen Friedman Agnifilo, MeidasTouch] And it says:

Q. How did you learn of that answer?

A. The Speaker of the House told me that I might be getting a call from the President of the United States, and advised me that my display on my phone would say, "spam risk Egypt." That was my notification for the fact that it might be him.

Q. Was the Speaker of the House at the time, whoever it was, answer correct, and did he tell you that you had already spoken to the President about coming to the White House?

A. I believe so.

[Karen Friedman Agnifilo, MeidasTouch] So "spam risk Egypt." So if you continue on the transcript, he got a phone call from the President of the United States, this gentleman who is testifying here in this transcript, he got a phone call, and it showed up "Egypt," okay? What does that tell me? It tells me this is the kind of stuff we used to do when I was a prosecutor, okay? We used to see people in the Mafia, and drug dealers, etc., or cyber criminals -- you know these sophisticated criminals would spoof calls, and make it come out and look like something else, so that people don't really know who's calling. And so "spam risk Egypt," I don't know who thought of that, but that's how the call from the President of the United States is going to come up, so that if anyone ever seizes the phone, or looks at the phone, or if there's a reporter nearby and they can see the phone, it's going to come up "Egypt." It's not going to come up "President of the United States." You know, maybe that's why they do things like that. But that seemed really fishy. and sketchy to me.



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Three attorneys — one of whom is a Hillsdale College vice president — pressured state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey after the 2020 election to award Michigan’s electoral votes to former President Donald Trump rather than President Joe Biden, Shirkey told a U.S. House committee.

The Clarklake Republican told the U.S. House Jan. 6 committee in June that he was pressured to submit an alternate slate of electors during meetings with Hillsdale College Vice President Robert Norton, Grand Rapids attorney Ian Northon and Amistad Project Director Phill Kline, who is the former Kansas attorney general, according an interview transcript released Tuesday.

Shirkey said he denied the requests because it would have violated Michigan law.

“I’m not going to suggest to you that there were specific threats, but the pressure was real and the expectations were, for the most part, unambiguous,” he said in a June interview.

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Mike Shirkey, Senate Majority Leader, addresses the media during a press conference with other legislative leaders announcing a partnership between the State of Michigan and Ford Motor Company at Grand Hotel Thursday morning, June 2, 2022.

Michigan Republican Party Chairwoman Laura Cox also has said Norton informed her of plans to have Michigan Republican electors hide in the Capitol overnight from Dec. 13, 2020 through Dec. 14, 2020 so they could cast their vote for Trump in the state House — a plan Cox called "insane and inappropriate."

Instead a group of Republican electors tried to gain entrance to the Capitol on Dec. 14, 2020 as Democratic electors met to cast their votes for Joe Biden. They were rejected by security officials since Biden had won Michigan.

Hillsdale College, a private conservative college in southern Michigan, did not respond to an email seeking comment on Norton.

Kline, who also was subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 committee, could not be reached for comment.

Northon said Wednesday it was “unfair and inaccurate” to suggest he pressured Shirkey to award electoral votes to Biden. He argued that he merely pushed Shirkey “to investigate and force the executive branch to follow the MI election laws.”

“He was not an elector and did not have the authority or power to do so,” Northon said of Shirkey. “On behalf of my private clients, however, I showed him evidence that the election laws in Michigan were not followed.”

Shirkey said in a Wednesday message that Northon was lying. The senator told interviewers in June he believed Norton and Northon were also talking to other members of the Michigan Legislature about alternate electors as well.

“…there was a loud noise, loud, consistent cadence of, ‘We hear that the Trump folks are calling and asking for changes in the electors and you guys can do this,’” Shirkey told interviewers, before being asked if that demand was “along the lines” of what Norton, Northon and Kline were requesting.

“That is very similar to the outcome that they were asking for, yes,” Shirkey said.

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Michigan State Police officer tells state Rep. Daire Rendon, in doorway, and Republican electors that they cannot enter the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing on Dec. 14, 2020.

Biden won Michigan by roughly 154,000 votes or 3 percentage points over Trump. Multiple court rulings, dozens of independent audits and a Republican-run Senate Oversight Committee investigation have all upheld the results of the election.

Outside of the meetings with Norton, Northon and Kline, Shirkey said he received “dozens and dozens of texts” in the lead-up to Michigan’s Dec. 14, 2020, Electoral College meeting urging the Senate majority leader to “do the right thing.”

Shirkey said he didn’t receive direct pressure from Trump in four phone calls leading up to the Electoral College meeting or during a Nov. 20, 2020, meeting with the president at the White House. But in a Jan. 3, 2021, post, the former president listed Shirkey’s cell phone number and encouraged supporters to urge Michigan lawmakers to “demand vote on decertification.”

The full transcript of Shirkey's interview, some of which has been disclosed in other Jan. 6 committee documents, was released Tuesday by the panel. The Jan. 6 panel voted earlier in December, following an 18-month investigation, to refer recommendations to the Justice Department that Trump be charged with obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress; conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to make false statements; and inciting, assisting or aiding and comforting an insurrection.

Oval Office meeting

Shirkey said he and former House Speaker Lee Chatfield, R-Levering, communicated ahead of the Nov. 20, 2020, meeting so they would operate in “lockstep” to emphasize they would be following Michigan law, which requires the state’s electoral votes to go to the individual who won the popular vote.

Shirkey told the panel that he didn't recall specifically telling Trump that it would be illegal for the Legislature to award electoral votes to Trump.

"I just remember saying we were going to follow Michigan law," he said.

Shirkey said Trump at some point in the Nov. 20, 2020 meeting was “disparaging” regarding Wayne County and the vote count operation there.

Shirkey said he told the president that he didn’t lose the state because of Wayne County, but because he underperformed in the traditionally Republican counties of Kent and Oakland, “and, more specifically, he underperformed with educated females.”

“If he had received the same number of votes as the two winning sheriffs in those two counties, he likely would have won Michigan,” Shirkey said.

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Michigan State Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey adjusts his protective face mask as he arrives to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, U.S., November 20, 2020.

The Trump campaign’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel also were on a conference call for part of the meeting. Shirkey said he interrupted Giuliani’s “monologue” to ask him when he would file a lawsuit.

“I was tired of hearing all of these loosely calculated claims and allegations but no substance to back them up,” Shirkey said, adding that the unsubstantiated claims were “destroying the country” and creating “unnecessary doubt.”

Chatfield told the Jan. 6 committee in an informal interview that Giuliani told Michigan lawmakers in the meeting to "have some backbone and do the right thing."

Shirkey and Chatfield issued a statement after the meeting indicating they would follow Michigan electoral laws and that they’d seen no information “that would change the outcome of the election in Michigan.”

Trump calls

Shirkey received a total of four calls from Trump ahead of Michigan's electoral college vote — on Nov. 18, 21, 25 and Dec. 14, 2020 — with each call showing up with the caller ID of “Spam risk Egypt,” the senator said.

The first call was to invite Shirkey to the Nov. 20, 2020, meeting, Shirkey said.

The senator said he was in a tree stand when he received the Nov. 21 call, during which Trump thanked Shirkey for coming to the Oval Office. Shirkey said he received the Nov. 25 call while sitting at his kitchen table, but said he didn’t remember much of the call except that Trump spoke to Shirkey’s wife for a bit.

Shirkey said he could not recall the contents of the Dec. 14, 2020 call that came the same day Michigan’s Electoral College met.

When asked about the group of Trump electors who sought access to the Capitol Dec. 14, Shirkey said he knew that was “the charge or the goal” of Norton, Northon and Kline.

“I didn’t know if they were going to be successful in aggregating a group or not,” Shirkey said. “I didn’t ask. I wasn’t there.”

Staff Writers Melissa Nann Burke and Craig Mauger contributed.

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