Trump insults media and general Milley: “He’s a damned idiot”

During a reception in his Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump returned to insult reporters as “bastard swindlers” and the head of the United Staff, General Mark Milley, called “a damned idiot”. The former president’s colorful utterances took place at the Turning Point USA event, a group of young conservatives that was streamed by far-right blogger and provocateur Jack Posobiec. “This country is in a very important and dangerous situation,” said Trump, who dusted off the usual baseless allegations of electoral fraud that would have led to his defeat in November 2020. Accusations peppered with the usual attacks on the media, “fake news” , once again branded as “the enemy of the people”. “We don’t have a press, because the press is corrupt – he said – if there is positive news about us, positive news about anyone who is Republican, conservative, they make it a negative story”. Trump, however, said he was honored to have reporters against them because “they are a bunch of dishonest, bastard swindlers.” The former president did not fail to lash out, once again, against General Milley, whom he himself nominated in 2018 to lead the US Armed Forces, for withdrawing from Afghanistan: “Milley will never forget me, who tells me ‘ Sir, it is cheaper to leave the equipment there than to bring it back, “he said, stating that” at that moment I knew he is a damned idiot. ”