“Things may look unsteady,” the chairman, Gen. Mark A. Milley, told Gen. Li Zuocheng of China on Jan. 8, two days after Mr. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol to try to stop the certification of his election loss and in the second of two such calls. “But that’s the nature of democracy, General Li. We are 100 percent steady. Everything’s fine. But democracy can be sloppy sometimes.”1月8日,在特朗普的支持者冲进国会大厦试图阻止国会确认他竞选失败的两天后,马克·米利(Mark Milley)上将告诉中国的李作成将军,“局面可能看起来不稳定,”这是两人之间的第二次类似通话。
Erin Schaff/The New York TimesDespite General Milley’s reassurances, he feared that Mr. Trump might be trying to find a moment that he could seize on to remain in power, similar to Hitler’s exploitation in 1933 of an arson fire at the German Reichstag to help institute emergency powers, the book said.该书称,尽管米利做出了保证,但李作成担心特朗普可能会试图找到一个时机,通过抓住这个时机继续掌权,就像希特勒在1933年利用德国国会大厦纵火案来掌握非常时期的权力一样。
”While much had been reported about General Milley’s views of Mr. Trump, the book’s depiction of Mr. Pence revealed for the first time the depths that the vice president went to as his fealty to Mr. Trump collided with calculations about his political future and the counsel of his aides and advisers to follow the Constitution.尽管有大量笔墨描述了米利对特朗普的看法,书中对彭斯的描写则首次揭露了在对特朗普的忠诚与对政治前途的盘算、以及其助手和顾问对遵守宪法的建议之间出现冲突之时,这位副总统可以做到何种程度 ... 阅读全文