Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took top-secret action to protect nuclear weapons

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  1. JET3534

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    A traitor supported by other traitors.
     
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    I still say bullshit because he didn't do it.

    Whatever those people did they did on their own. The only active help they received from Nancy Pelosi, who refused to post security at the Capitol.
     
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    I expect no president in this country has. Trump is truly one of a kind.
     
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    Bullshit.
     
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    jack4freedom Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I would welcome an open hearing with members of both parties grilling General Milley. I think that the sane public would support his actions.
     
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    Here's another story emerging from the Woodward book in a slightly lighter note, although still tied around how unhinged he was

    SNIP
    After the 2020 election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was so concerned about how President Donald Trump would react to a phone call from President-elect Joe Biden that he worked through a backchannel to ensure it didn't happen.

    So he asked GOP Sen. John Cornyn of Texas to ask Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, who has a close relationship with Biden, to tell the president-elect not to call Trump, per the excerpt.
    ENDSNIP

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/mcconnell-told-biden-not-call-210149591.html

    Like there was any serious concern that Joe was going to pick up the phone in the first place???

    It's like High School.... "Pssst.... tell Tommy to tell Olivia to tell Jennifer that I like her"
     
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    Only one party is capable of "grilling" witnesses (and only rarely then).... the other just rants at the sky yelling buzzwords like Treason and Leavenworth and Gallows...

    Times like this I miss Al Franken...

    I do agree with your conclusion, but there would have been a better way to word it, assuming those are direct quotes...
     
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    Yup.

    Anyone who blindly trusts an internet story to declare someone a traitor is a traitor to logic ... there is usually a huge difference between
    what is actually said and what the internet says was said ... so I say.
     
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    What Miley did was give China the option of trusting him, or not trusting him and striking us first.

    Milley needs to be court martialed and then given his choice of firing squad or hanging.

    He acted on a thought, not a fact and put us at risk.
     
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    Yeah, because China's never had the option of striking us first....
     
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    Except as usual the wacko lefties were wrong...Shocker.
     
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    If you support this kind of backstabbing treatment of the President you will live to regret it. It will come back to bite you and half the country will be against you. That senile tottering old fool in the White House will be the undoing of America’s leftists.
     
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    Trump suffers from TDS, no doubt about that, that is why the disease is named after Trump, he is patient zero
     
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    Telling the head general of another nation that you've neutered our retaliatory nuclear strike capability when the entirety of the nuclear armed world subsists on M (mutually) A (assured) D(destruction) and that you'd warn him if we attacked is.
     
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    He 1) neutered our retaliatory strike capability 2) informed a rival nation of that fact 3) further informed said rival nation that he would of course give them a warning if we were going to attack, when attack by surprise is a decision out of his hands if ordered by someone above him in the chain of command 4) by doing 1-3 he took for himself the powers of the presidency as commander in chief.
    The first 3 are treasonous, the final is seditious conspiracy.
     
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    WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AMERICA’S TOP GENERAL AND A CHINESE SPY?

    “Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel. ‘General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise.'”

    Court Martial
     
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    You don't ask your boss for their weapon. You relieve them of command in an official capacity in front of witnesses.
    And you normally face a court martial afterwards. There is a process for these things. When you're talking the civilian commander in chief, that process is prescribed by the constitution and requires death, incapacity, or removal, none of which are the call of the joint chief to make. He could outright refuse to obey an unlawful order, were said order to be actually given, but he could not subvert the authority of his superior ahead of time. He chose to do the latter, not the former.
     
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    Sorry that should read Secretary of Defense, Freudian slip watching Blinken testifying.............
     
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    First the military is under civilian control and that being the President.

    It seems now that the DoD is HIGHLY disputing the reporting because if true, that's it for Milley.
     
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    Exactly, the lefties cheering this on aren't even smart enough that if this is true Milley will be removed from duty, most likely court martialed and could face Treason charges.
     
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    What?? You don't want the military having some control over Biden's gnarled old finger on the button???

    That's a change....
     
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    Why?
     
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    And if he were to call the Chinese premier tomorrow and tells him the same about Biden in his diminished mental capabilities, don't worry I won't allow a launch...........

    Fox's Jennifer Griffith is reporting officials at the DoD are vehemently denying what the book is claiming, even calling it nonsense to imagine. They know the implications if what is claimed in the book is true. If it is true Biden has no choice but to fire him.

    Perhaps hearings are called for as you would like to see happen.
     
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    Ahhhh......the CIVILIAN leadership has control over the military not the other way around.
     
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    Well, then they probably shouldn't have a military guy walking around the POTUS with a very cool briefcase then....
     
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