Today In Biden Land

[TIC]

what is that?

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/n...oto/1235181192

[TIC]

[Kirkland Laing]

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 secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to "Peril," a new book by legendary journalist Bob Woodward and veteran Washington Post reporter Robert Costa.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 worried that Trump could 'go rogue,' the authors write.
"You never know what a president's trigger point is," Milley told his senior staff, according to the book.
In response, Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.
"No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I'm part of that procedure," Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood.
"Got it?" Milley asked, according to the book.
"Yes, sir."
'Milley considered it an oath,' the authors write.


https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/14/p...ear/index.html

[TitoFan]

It can be argued that Trump was unfit to figuratively "have the keys" to the nuclear launch button since Day One of his Presidency. His personality does not check the right boxes for someone with that power.

The fact it took until after January 6th to come to that determination is worrisome.

[Master]

It can be argued that Trump was unfit to figuratively "have the keys" to the nuclear launch button since Day One of his Presidency. His personality does not check the right boxes for someone with that power.

The fact it took until after January 6th to come to that determination is worrisome.

I am sure they knew earlier but a democratically elected leader who needs guidance was probably what they were thinking. I bet they were holding their breath until he finally left. Trying to stop him from doing his worst but hoping for the best for their country.

Cannot have been easy.

[Master]

Good to see Democrats still winning as the California governor survives a bid to oust him.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58565271

[TitoFan]

It can be argued that Trump was unfit to figuratively "have the keys" to the nuclear launch button since Day One of his Presidency. His personality does not check the right boxes for someone with that power.

The fact it took until after January 6th to come to that determination is worrisome.

I am sure they knew earlier but a democratically elected leader who needs guidance was probably what they were thinking. I bet they were holding their breath until he finally left. Trying to stop him from doing his worst but hoping for the best for their country.

Cannot have been easy.

It gets even "less easy" when the ex-President starts yelling "treason."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-say...221700296.html

[Kirkland Laing]

It can be argued that Trump was unfit to figuratively "have the keys" to the nuclear launch button since Day One of his Presidency. His personality does not check the right boxes for someone with that power.

The fact it took until after January 6th to come to that determination is worrisome.

I am sure they knew earlier but a democratically elected leader who needs guidance was probably what they were thinking. I bet they were holding their breath until he finally left. Trying to stop him from doing his worst but hoping for the best for their country.

Cannot have been easy.

It gets even "less easy" when the ex-President starts yelling "treason."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-say...221700296.html

The worst part is that even now we know that the senior folks in the Trump administration including Milley and Barr all thought Trump was certifiable and shouldn't be prez there are still tens of millions of Americans who will happily vote to give him the nuclear codes again.

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