'Everything changes': Ex-Army general makes desperate last-minute plea over Trump
Donald Trump and his MAGA movement fit “the definition of fascism,” according to retired U.S. Army Major General Randy Manner who warned that if the former president were to return to office — especially in light of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling — “everything changes.”
“If he was to be the commander in chief again, everything changes," Manner said during an interview Monday night with CNN anchor Laura Coates. “The Supreme Court has given him immunity and the threshold for turning the National Guard into his personal police force is quite low."
Manner noted that as long as Trump remains out of office, “he cannot do anything to harm Americans directly," but then added a stark warning.
“Most Americans don’t know how easy it would be for an unhinged president to use the military against our own citizens," he said.
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“President Trump is not like any sane leader,” Manner said.
He went on to recite a dictionary definition of fascism after Coates read a statement from retired U.S. Army General Mark Milley to journalist Bob Woodward, in which he called Trump “a total fascist.”
“Let’s back up a second, if you go to Webster online, you will find that it’s usually nationalistic, it’s far-right — ok, let’s see, so that’s definitely the Trump campaign,” Manner said as he as he went on to read other aspects of fascism that he says lines up with Trump.
“Check, check…that is actually the definition of fascism,” Manner said. “If he as the chairman of the joint chiefs is calling the president a fascist, I am so proud of him for breaking that barrier to say — to speak to the truth — that he is.
He added at the conclusion of the interview that “the very far-right, the hard-core — they don’t understand what fascism is. The reality is they are in fact fascist themselves by the definition.”