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Gen. Mark Milley, the top US military leader, resisted Donald Trump’s demands that his forces “crack skulls” of protesters marching against police brutality, according to a much-trailed new book. CNN reported the latest excerpts from Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost by Michael Bender, a Wall Street Journal reporter.
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Throughout a tense summer, Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a historic piece of legislation regarding domestic unrest, but ultimately did not do so. Bender reports that at one stage Milley pointed at a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president who led the Union to victory in the civil war, and told Trump: “That guy had an insurrection. What we have, Mr. President, is a protest.”
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On Capitol Hill this week, Milley discussed the deadly 6 January attack on the US Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to overturn his election defeat, which Congress deemed an insurrection when it impeached Trump for inciting it.