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That trump is in serious mental decline. he also has been talking back channel to the chinese. he is aware from intelligence that the chinese are on edge, because of january 6th. and because of trump s behavior. so he s trying to reassure them behind the scenes, and milley tells his senior staff, quote, you never know what a president s trigger point is. against this backdrop, same day, january 8th, milley gets a call from speaker of the house, nanly pelosi. we ve heard about this call, but wood ard and costa got a transcript of the call. pelosi has the same concerns that milley does. the phone call is dramatic. it is blunt. and pelosi wants milley to reassure here that the nuclear weapons are safe. and this is the exchange. pelosi, who knows what he might ....
You about what he thinks about himself and what he thinks about use of presidential power. but wouldn t it be almost cool to have power? he s trying to get mike pence to say no. i will not certify the i will not follow the constitution or law. wouldn t it be almost cool to have that power? mike pence, no. i ve done everything i could, and then some to find a way around this. it s simply not possible. trump, no, no, no. you don t understand, mike, you can do this. i don t want to be your friend anymore if you don t do this. number one, there s a little bit of third grade there. let s set that aside. this is more important than that. trump s view of forget the law, forget the constitution, i want to stay in power, make it happen. right. and the common thread here is with this and with the reporting, the new reporting on the exchange with general milley, is that trump thinks that personal loyalty to him is the operative and important thing here. it s not about the presidency. ....
Afghanistan by january 15th, before trump s presidency is over. there s just one problem. no one on the national security team, no one at the pentagon knew that this had been drafted and signed. it had been done by two trump loyalists at the white house. they had done an end run around the national security team. they were completely blind sided. so milley decides he s going to go over a no notice surprise visit to the white house, and he confronts national security adviser robert o brien who says, i don t know anything about this either. and milley says to him, quote, what do you mean you have no idea? you re the national security adviser to the president. and the secretary of defense didn t know about this, and the chief of staff to the secretary of defense didn t know about this. the chairman didn t know. ....
Time of risk that he had to take all necessary precautions. he actually had an expression for it. he called it the absolute darkest moment of theoretical possibility. what trump might do. and so general milley knows at this point his relationship with the president over that demonstration across the white house was toxic. it was so perhaps he s worried about the relationship. he also has other evidence. they write in the book about a secret memo. that general milley found out the president was trying to quickly pull out troops out of afghanistan before he left office. milley had proof that president trump could go rogue. he d done it once before. a week after trump loses the election, on november 11th, this memo, a military directive, shows up unexpectedly at the pentagon. it is a secretly drafted and signed by the president memo, saying you re to get out of ....
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