It is simply extraordinary that the nation’s top general would tell anyone, much less one of the most famous reporters in the world, that the fmr president of the US was a “fascist”—a “fascist to the core,” even—& a threat to the constitutional order. There is no precedent for such a thing in American history—no example of another time when a high-ranking leader of the nation’s armed forces felt compelled to warn the public of the danger posed by its once & perhaps future chief executive.