MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace questions why people aren’t speaking out against Trump’s fascist threats
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From the September 8, 2025, edition of MSNBC's Deadline: White House
NICOLLE WALLACE (HOST): I do want to put the post from the weekend up because this can never be normalized. An American president sent out a tweet, essentially, it would be easy to understand it as a declaration of war against Americans living in an American city. Miles Taylor, you know better than just about anyone how reluctantly General John Kelly spoke out and did a recorded interview. Ahead of the interview, he warned about exactly this. He did an interview after Secretary Mattis and General Mark Milley described Donald Trump as fascistic to the core. That's a quote to Bob Woodward. He did an interview where he confirms that Donald Trump meets all the technical definitions of a fascist. But he goes further and he describes what is wrong with putting U.S. troops on the streets of American cities and warns about its impact to the military. Where are all those voices speaking out for what this does?