Learning to trust Trump's generals: There's a reason why his military men who now call him fascist

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : Here's Trump on the campaign trail just yesterday:"As president, you have tremendous -- it's called extreme power.
70% : Trump didn't believe him, insisting that they were totally loyal.
50% : Trump also asked at one point who the "good guys" were in WWI.
49% : It was also very easy to see that fascism was on the menu in the United States of America if Trump won the electionThat was nine years ago and a zillions of words have since been written about Trump's dishonesty, corruption, unfitness and authoritarian philosophy.
39% : He told me that when Trump raised the subject of "German generals," Kelly responded by asking, "'Do you mean Bismarck's generals?'"
38% : If they fear retribution from Trump, I'm afraid that ship sailed.
34% : Yet Trump has very little respect for the military either.
33% : At the time, Trump was extolling the virtues of torture, talking about a massive surveillance program to be used against American Muslims and promising to send Syrian refugees, including children, back to their war-torn country.
32% : "The lawyer for the family suggested to the Atlantic that Trump never paid but members of the family defended him after the story published.
25% : Schmidt asked him if he thinks Trump is a fascist:"Well, looking at the definition of fascism: It's a far-right authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy," he said.
23% : We've learned over the years, through many reports, memoirs and tell-all books that Trump tried to govern in dictatorial fashion at every turn but was either too mentally undisciplined to follow through or was held back by people around him who kept him from acting on his worst impulses.
21% : Goldberg published a piece in The Atlantic on Tuesday with some new revelations about Trump's disdain for the military, quoting from witnesses and contemporaneous notes about an episode in which Trump exploded over the cost of a funeral for a service member which he'd promised to help pay for:"It doesn't cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican!"
15% : Trump had said to Kelly at one point, "Why can't you be like the German generals?"
10% : Kelly told me Trump was not acquainted with Rommel.

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