Retired 4-star general compares Trump loyalists to Hitler's Nazis

A retired four-star Army General said Wednesday night that what's happening in the U.S. with Trump-supporting Republicans "is a parallel to the 1930s in Nazi Germany."

"This is all worth being extremely concerned about," Barry McCaffrey said on MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes when asked about Trump's recent comments in which he said General Mark Milley had committed "an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH!"

He was referring to a call Milley made to the Chinese government in the final weeks of Trump's presidency seeking to make sure that Trump's rhetoric would not spark a crisis.

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According to McCaffrey, Trump's followers are part of a "lawless cult."

"I don't say that's the Republican Party. That's 15 to 25 House members, a couple of senators and all those who are Trump MAGA loyalists," he said.

"This is a cult. It's a lawless cult, and it's a major threat to the armed forces of the United States and our security," he said.

He went on to say that Milley would not be intimidated by Trump's comments.

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"He's a Princeton hockey player, he's a tough guy, he had years in combat, his mom and dad fought in World War II," McCaffrey said of Milley.

"But it's a shameful act on the part of those speaking in a manner to support authoritarian government. This is outrageous."