This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 38%. (I'm a bot)
> In short, Gen Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and star of many a Trump-related books story of late, reportedly did not only stop Trump from shooting protesters and muse to friends about "Reichstag moments" and "The gospel of the Führer".
> In the months after the election, with Trump seemingly willing to do anything to stay in power, the subject of Iran was repeatedly raised in White House meetings with the president, and Milley repeatedly argued against a strike.
> Trump did not want a war, the chairman believed, but he kept pushing for a missile strike in response to various provocations against US interests in the region.
> Trump had a circle of Iran hawks around him and was close with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was also urging the administration to act against Iran after it was clear that Trump had lost the election.
> For what it's worth, Trump returned to the offensive against Milley on Friday, issuing yet another intemperate statement about the contents of books with which, in the most part, he himself co-operated.
> Here is Lloyd Green's review of perhaps the biggest of the Trump books, I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker of the Washington Post, which includes a lot of Milley's musings about the possibility of a coup, which have really angered Trump.
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