effort. the chairman secretly feared trump would insist on launching a strike on iranian interests and it could setoff a full-blown war. so general milley was worried president trump would use the pretext of a warul with iran to stay in power, which is i guess one way to doch it. now, that war obviously never came tono pass. instead trump pulled many other insane levers to stay in the white house, but this new yorker story washe a big deal. trump was apparently furious. the summer the new yorker article came out trump was so enraged by general milley that trump even released a statement. if i was going to do a coup one of the last people i would want to do it with was general mark milley. if i was going to do a coup.