Joe Buy-Dung demonstrates his prowess with the football…
Posted on 01/09/2021 12:41:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Despite a campaign by Democrats and the establishment media to delegitimize President Donald Trump after Wednesday’s Capitol incursion, Department of Defense officials intend to avoid outside pressure and continue to recognize him as the commander in chief while avoiding taking part in “a military coup,” according to a report.
It was widely reported Friday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked Army Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to limit the president’s access to the country’s so-called nuclear football, which contains launch codes for America’s vast arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Pelosi called Milley to ask him to ignore orders from Trump to use those codes. It’s unclear what initiated the call to Milley. No specific threat from Trump seems to exist, suggesting the call was made for political purposes.
The California Democrat reportedly told Milley she wants to limit the president from responding to international threats during the final days of his term.
NPR reported Pelosi told her Democratic colleagues she spoke to Milley about “available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”
“The situation of this unhinged President … could not be more dangerous and we must do everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy,” Pelosi wrote.
But according to The New York Times, the Pentagon is remaining neutral in the partisan squabbling.
A statement from Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for Milley, confirmed to The Times that the call took place.
“[Milley] answered her questions regarding the process of nuclear command authority,” Butler said.
The newspaper spoke to other Pentagon officials who were reportedly hesitant to get involved in Pelosi’s political match, according to Times reporters David Sanger and Eric Schmitt.
“Mr. Trump, they noted, is still the commander in chief; unless he is removed, the military is bound to follow his lawful orders. While military officials can refuse to carry out orders they view as illegal — or slow the process by sending those orders for careful legal review — they cannot remove the president from the chain of command. That would amount to a military coup, the officials said,” Sanger and Schmitt reported.
“The one issue that has worried officials the most is Iran’s announcement that it has begun enriching uranium to 20 percent purity — near the quality to make a bomb. In December, Mr. Trump asked for military options that might be taken in response to Iran’s escalating production of nuclear fuel, but he was talked out of it by a number of top officials, including General Milley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo,” the Times also reported.
Pelosi and other Democrats have used the events at the Capitol Building on Wednesday to justify going after Trump, and they have signaled they intend to exact political revenge against him following years of fear-mongering about his mental state during his final days in office.
Democrats have also announced they plan to again impeach the president, and there is chatter they might attempt to remove him from office by using the 25th Amendment with less than two weeks left in his term.
Other Democratic lawmakers have also reportedly put pressure on Milley since Wednesday. But for now, the military has reportedly rebuffed them and intends to remain neutral from politics.
Trump remains the only person in government with the capacity to directly order military action and who has the discretion to use the country’s nuclear arsenal. Any attempt to deny him the tools to carry out his duties presiding over national security would be unlawful, unless there is an invocation of the 25th Amendment, or any orders given to Pentagon officials by him are determined to be themselves unlawful.
President-elect Joe Biden will be inaugurated on Jan. 20, at which point he will be given command over the country’s military and nuclear arsenal.
“Pelosi called Milley to ask him to ignore orders from Trump to use those codes.”
Does she have “standing” to go to Milley?
She wants Trump dead in the worst way.
Yep, do dawn raids on the gooberner, the SOS and Stacey Abrams for starters......but bring a horse trailer to bring her in!
“heart wrenching photo. GOD’s judgement is about to be lambasted on America”
It seems that there are some Trump supporters who are beyond savvy when it comes to tech, and are expert hackers. I would love to have the feeds of the MSM hacked in to and hours and hours of these photos streamed for all the world to see. Not just Hunter’s. There’s chatter that there are MUCH worse out there showing many of the RATs and RINOs in compromising ways.
No they’re not. The military is also corrupt as are most of the generals. Several of my classmates are now 1, 2 and 3 star generals and you’d be surprised how liberal they are.
Even Henry the 8th felt a little bad about Thomas More's execution.
“While military officials can refuse to carry out orders they view as illegal — or slow the process by sending those orders for careful legal review — “
Since when? Now, I’m an old guy and I went into the Air Force more than 50 years ago, during Vietnam; but I’m quite sure officers could not put orders on ice pending “careful legal review.”
Pelosi is flinging p** at Trump and it hit her in the face. Democrats love Pelosi, the unhinged psychotic.
Why did she call USA General Milley? He is the CJCS. The VCJCS is USAF General Hyten. Then there are 6 more on the JCS rep’g Army, AF, Navy, Marines, NG and Space. They report to the Secretaries of the respective branches.
Why did she reach out sideways like that? The CJCS does not control the military or any branch of the military although there is obvious influence.
*****”...While the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff outranks all other commissioned officers, the chairman is prohibited by law from having operational command authority over the armed forces; however, the chairman does assist the president and the secretary of defense in exercising their command functions. ...” Wikipedia*****
I suppose Pelosi’s world is all about lying, backroom deals, bribes, payoffs, the occasional suicide, and so on. It’s not like the People should expect the Speaker to know anything about the law or how govt works.
Hoist with his own petard
“Hoist with his own petard” is a phrase from a speech in William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet that has become proverbial. The phrase’s meaning is literally that a bomb-maker is blown up by his own bomb, and indicates an ironic reversal, or poetic justice.
Thanks. I should have read further in the chain before posting : )
The trick is to stage a nuke ‘accident’ in the center of their
Nuke program such that it sends their country back to the Stone Age. Let Team Biden expend all kinds of rehab efforts on an enemy intent on wiping us out.
Ahhh. The demon crats must be so disappointed and outraged over this. Eat it idiots!!
You did good. You got it right.
She even has a pizza restaurant chain where I have heard is a good place to launder the money she has stolen from us.
Petard was an early hand gun5, and shooting it was called ‘hoisting’. They backfired a lot.
>>> No they’re not. The military is also corrupt as are most of the generals.
We shall see very soon.
I hope your wrong
Joe Buy-Dung demonstrates his prowess with the football…
I looked it up once, longago, and got the wrong result as far as I can see.
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/hoist-by-your-own-petard.html
It’s not a crime until it’s too late to do anything about it...didn’t you get the memo?
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