According to "Peril," a new book by journalist Bob Woodward and Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump's top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took top-secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons.
Woodward and Costa write that Milley, deeply shaken by the assault, 'was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies.'
Milley instructed senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.
Gotta' love this exchange between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Milley (Woodward and Costa have the call transcript):
PELOSI: "What I'm saying to you is that if they couldn't even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, who even knows what else he may do? And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?"
PELOSI: "You know he's crazy. He's been crazy for a long time."
MILLEY: "Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything."
Also, Woodward/Costa report that Milley discovered the President [Trump] had signed a military order after the Jan 6 insurrection to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, before he left the White House.
So, umm, how was Trump going to get 125,000 Americans, allies, and Afghans out of the country in less than two weeks?
ANSWER: Trump didn't give two squats about them.
http://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/index.html
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