September 14, 2021
General Mark Milley (Vanilli) took steps to keep nuclear weapons out of lame duck President Donald Trump's hands, according to a new book by Bob Woodward.
From The Daily Mail
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley took a series of extraordinary actions after the Jan. 6th Capitol riot out of concerns an 'unstable' President Trump might undertake military action in a desperate bid to stay in office, according to Bob Woodward's bombshell new book.
The efforts included Milley as the top ranking military officer meeting with top military officials in the Pentagon two days after the MAGA riot and telling them to keep him in the process for all military actions, including the use of nuclear weapons. It also included back-channel outreach to Milley's counterpart in the Chinese military to provide reassurances the US would not strike its rival, according to the book.
'If you get calls, no matter who they’re from, there’s a process here, there’s a procedure. No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure,' he told top US military officials inside the Pentagon's war room two days after the riot,' according to Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Advance excerpts of the book were published by CNN, the New York Timesand the Washington Post.
Milley apparently tried to get people to swear oaths to disobey orders from their Commander-in-Chief.
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US intelligence concluded the Chinese believed Trump might launch a military strike in order create a basis to stay in power, after an election Trump claimed was fraudulent, despite a series of court and procedural defeats that had him running out of options.
Milley feared Trump might seek to use such an attack to achieve a Reichstag fire type incident, where he would cite the dangerous new situation to cling to power. Milley afterward concluded Li was 'unusually rattled.'
The book quotes Milley expressing concerns Trump might launch a strike that could lead to war. Trump campaigned repeatedly ending Middle East wars he called a waste, and negotiated a departure date with the Taliban in Afghanistan before leaving office.
'I continually reminded him, depending on where and what you strike, you could find yourself at war,' the book quotes Milley as saying of Trump.
So now the military is making these decisions?This is clearly a court-martial offense and Milley should be brought before a tribunal for doing it.
If anyone needs any more evidence that there is a Deep State and that they tampered with the last election it is this.
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Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 14, 2021 02:23 PM (dmr2P)
Posted by: Bill H at September 14, 2021 06:17 PM (/sW5m)
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 15, 2021 07:09 AM (/hvMw)
First, Bernstein is a tool who has been forever pursuing his glory days going after Nixon, and he is strangely docile when it involves Democrats. Obama was ripe for a scathing investigation but Mr. Bernstein seemed less than eager to purse THAT.
Second, we know the purposes of this. It is to keep Trump or anyone remotely like Trump from daring to challenge the Ruling Class. Trump must be so demonized that nobody ever tries it again. And of course this is coming out NOW because Biden is in real trouble and desperately needs a diversion. What better diversion than to go after Trump again?
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 15, 2021 07:12 AM (/hvMw)
Milley really needs to be fired, at the very least, and Biden could look like a stronger president if he did it.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 15, 2021 11:37 AM (pdDZ2)
Frankly, I'm sure Milley is guilty as he appears to be, since he's that kind of sleazeball. But we need to get testimony from him. Sen. Rand Paul, who I respect, wants him to testify under polygraph. It likely won't happen, but it should.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at September 15, 2021 10:45 PM (pdDZ2)
What if we HAD to launch a strike and this a-hole refused on his own judgment?
The fact is, there is a chain of command with the President, the Vice President, the House Speaker, and the Sec. of Defense over generals. They aren't the ones making the call. That's why the 25th Amendment is in place; Trump's cabinet could have overridden him on any nuclear launch order. Not a general. He is duty bound to obey orders.
Dana, when I said Bernstein in the comment I was mocking Woodward. I guess my little joke fell flat. The idea was nobody knows the difference between the two or cares.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at September 16, 2021 07:32 AM (OJ4VN)
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