Chris Hayes and Ian Bassin criticize the lack of media coverage of Gen. Mark Milley calling Donald Trump “fascist to the core”
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Citation From the October 11, 2024, edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes
CHRIS HAYES (HOST): General Mark Milley, that's Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, this is a pretty serious dude, his top general, worked with Trump, was in the room with him, says Trump is, quote, a fascist to the core. Not my assessment, fascist to the core and the most dangerous person in the country. That's who we're dealing with.
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IAN BASSIN (GUEST): I think the thing you're pointing out now about J.D. Vance and Mike Johnson is that unlike in 2020, Trump now has stocked people around him and created a Republican Party that is fully on board. He still had 147 votes in the Republican Party last time. He has even more this time because he's gotten rid of anybody who would stand in his way, and I think this poses the very danger that General Milley alluded to. And I want to point out, Chris, something that you just flagged on the screen.
General Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs under Trump, called him a fascist to the core and you put up on a screen a news article reporting it from The Independent, a newspaper out of England. The other newspaper that has covered it so far is The Guardian out of England. Where's the American press putting this on banner headlines tomorrow?
I mean, it's as if a doctor called your house to tell you you had a fatal heart condition and needed emergency surgery and the person taking the message wrote it on a post-it and buried it in some paperwork under the phone. No, if you get that message, you find the person who needs the surgery, you grab them by the collar and you slap the post-it on their forehead. And that's what the media needs to do for the days and weeks ahead to warn the American people.