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Top military general took secret action to prevent Trump from using nuclear weapons, book says
General Milley was ‘certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election,’ reporters write in Peril

Gustaf Kilander

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The authors write that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Gen Milley during a tense phone call: “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?”

“You know he’s crazy. He’s been crazy for a long time,” she added.

“Madam Speaker, I agree with you on everything,” the general replied, according to Peril. After the call, Gen Milley told his service chiefs to watch everything “all the time”.

He then called the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Paul Nakasone.

“Needles up ... keep watching, scan,” he told General Nakasone.

“Aggressively watch everything, 360,” General Milley told then-CIA Director Gina Haspel.

“Milley was overseeing the mobilization of America’s national security state without the knowledge of the American people or the rest of the world,” Mr Woodward and Mr Costa write. They add that “some might contend that Milley had overstepped his authority and taken extraordinary power for himself” but that the general thought that it was “a good faith precaution to ensure there was no historic rupture in the international order, no accidental war with China or others, and no use of nuclear weapons”.

After discovering that Mr Trump had signed a memo written by two of his allies instructing the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan by 15 January 2021, without notifying anyone on the national security team, Gen Milley couldn’t forget that Mr Trump had gone over the heads of the military.

After the insurrection on 6 January, Gen Milley “felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions,” the authors write.

Gen Milley thought it was the “absolute darkest moment of theoretical possibility”.
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They are trying to twist this into a hit on Trump instead of a General on the Joint Chiefs betraying his country.....