<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I find this disturbing, and yet I do understand that the general's motivations were good and the actions needed... I just hope this does not become a trend...</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">"In the days following the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley held a top-secret meeting with senior military officials to take action against then Commander-in-chief Donald Trump, blocking the president from potentially launching nuclear weapons and ordering staff to ignore all orders except Milley’s, a new book entitled “Peril” by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa revealed, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/?utm_term=link&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_content=2021-09-14T15%3A56%3A45&utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none medium;font-size:24px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(160,147,95);text-decoration-line:none">as reported by</a> CNN on Tuesday.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Prior to taking action, Milley had multiple phone calls with China’s top general and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.</p><div class="gmail-code-block gmail-code-block-3" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both"><div class="gmail-OUTBRAIN" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The two journalists wrote that Milley “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.”</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Milley was reportedly concerned the president could “go rogue.”</p><div class="gmail-code-block gmail-code-block-2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both"><div class="gmail-OUTBRAIN" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">In the secret meeting, Milley ordered the officials in charge of the National Military Command Center not to take orders from anyone except him.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">“No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley ordered, according to the book. The general then moved around the room and received verbal confirmation from each person.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">“Got it?” Milley asked, the book said. The authors wrote that Milley considered the order “an oath.”</p><div class="gmail-code-block gmail-code-block-4" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:8px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:both"><div class="gmail-OUTBRAIN" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"></div></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)">According to the book, Milley engaged in two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general and promised he would warn the nation of an attack."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/09/report-gen-milley-held-top-secret-meeting-to-block-trumps-access-to-nukes-told-staff-to-disobey-all-but-his-orders/">https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/09/report-gen-milley-held-top-secret-meeting-to-block-trumps-access-to-nukes-told-staff-to-disobey-all-but-his-orders/</a><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.4em;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:1.1em;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-family:Neuton,Georgia,serif;line-height:1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p></div>