General Mark Milley Thought Stephen Miller Was “A Character Of Rasputin,” New Book Says

• General Mark Milley viewed Trump’s adviser Stephen Miller as “a character of Rasputin,” according to a new book.
• “I Alone Can Fix It” details a conflict between Milley and Miller over the George Floyd protests.
• Milley told Miller to “shut its mouth” when the latter suggested to Trump that the protesters “were burning the country,” according to the book.

General Mark Milley viewed Trump adviser Stephen Miller as “a character of Rasputin, still whispering evil ideas in the king’s ear,” according to a new book on the last days of the Trump administration.

According to an excerpt from “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump’s Catastrophic Final Year” by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Phillip Rucker, Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to assistants about his deep feelings towards Miller. .

Milley compared Miller to the villainous Grigory Rasputin, an influential Russian politician also known as the “Mad Monk,” who wielded considerable influence over the last Czar, Nicholas II, and his family. The self-proclaimed holy man was later murdered by aristocrats.

According to Leonnig and Rucker, this tension between Milley and Miller, then senior policy adviser and director of speech writing in the White House, manifested itself during the George Floyd protests last summer.

The book details a tense exchange between the two men, highlighting how particularly aggravated Milley was when Miller asked Trump to use armed troops to quell the protests.

“Mr. President, you have to show strength. They are burning the country,” the book said in a meeting with the former president.

According to the book, that’s when Milley “turned his head” and blasted Miller, saying, “Stephen, shut up the fucking. They don’t burn the fucking country.”

The book further claims that throughout this exchange, Trump watched the two “silently and impatiently, as if the argument between his advisers was a pay-per-view fight on HBO.”

The Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Miller did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.

Trump has denied ever discussing the deployment of the military during the 2020 George Floyd protests with Milley in a statement released on July 16.

“Despite the fact that the 2020 presidential election was rigged and stolen, and while many people, including the outside public, said we should call in the military, I never even thought about it.” Trump wrote in the statement.

“I never had a single discussion with him about the arrival of the military or a ‘coup’,” Trump added.

Trump also denounced Milley on a separate issue. On July 15, Trump released a long statement responding to claims that Milley feared planning a coup to overthrow the government. Writing that he is “not in a coup”, Trump added that even if he was, he “would not want to commit one with General Mark Milley.”