Posted on 09/15/2021 7:12:30 AM PDT by Red Badger
The new book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa is meant to damage Donald Trump and it attempts to justify a potential act of treason by a windblown general. It reveals, if true, that General Milley betrayed then-President Donald Trump and the nation.
The media has swiftly come to defend Milley’s potential act of treason. Yet, it is even worse than first reported in The Washington Post.
HE ORDERED THE COMMAND SWEAR LOYALTY TO HIM As reported by CNN’s summary of the book, General Milley demanded total loyalty to him from the military command, and not to the President. He even made each commander take an oath TO HIM.
During his secret meeting on January 8th, Milley instructed senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center to not take orders from anyone unless he was involved, according to a summary of the book by CNN.
“No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told them.
“Got it?” Milley asked, according to the book.
“Yes, sir.”
“Milley considered it an oath,” Woodward and Costa wrote.
As he was disloyal to the President and the American people, he made the command swear fealty to him.
That is in violation of his own oath. His bizarre reaction to Chinese propaganda was to violate the Constitution and demand the military remain loyal to him, not the President.
We don’t live in a military, police state. Civilians have control of the military. Milley reversed that in collusion with the Democrat Speaker of the House and Democrat Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Background The book had revealed that Milley, through two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general, reassured him that the U.S. would not attack, even promising to give him a heads up if it did.
According to a write-up by the Washington Post, Milley — four days before the 2020 presidential election — assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the U.S. would not strike.
Also according to the book, Milley told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “I agree with you on everything,” after the speaker called him and pressed him to secure the country’s nuclear weapons and called Trump “crazy.”
Woodward and Costa write that after the call with Pelosi, Milley “decided he had to act” and told the military service chiefs and then-CIA director to watch everything “all the time.”
They wrote, “Milley was overseeing the mobilization of America’s national security state without the knowledge of the American people or the rest of the world.”
“Some might contend that Milley had overstepped his authority and taken extraordinary power for himself,” they wrote, but said the chairman believed his actions were “a good faith precaution to ensure there was no historic rupture in the international order, no accidental war with China or others, and no use of nuclear weapons” as Milley “felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump.”
It doesn’t matter what he thought. He had an obligation to follow the chain of command, not take over militarily. The military is clearly under civilian control.
This is a very serious betrayal of the President and the American people. It looks like treason.
Now compare Joe Biden’s utter incompetence and feeble-mindedness to Trump’s demeanor. It’s insane.
Yes, we have to bear in mind what a devious SOB Woodward is.
This guy needs the basement room at Leavenworth.
He does it every time, enough there to cause chaos and garner attention to sell a book, not enough there for real meaning.
Yes....................
Woodward meant his story to damage Trump.
But it was written before the Afghanistan debacle.......so it proved more damaging to Milley than Trump.
Biden HAD to know about the call, as well.
And what does China pal, Hunter, know?
“Seven Days in May”
General James Mattoon Scott but with truck loads of Gay.
But first! Milley needs to be “introduced” to the general population (gen pop).
I think we need to be extremely careful about using the word treason. It’s the only crime defined in the Constitution, and the legally-prescribed penalty is death.
If Woodward’s charges are true, Milley committed treason. The problem is that it’s Woodward.
It sounds like if President Trump had been re-elected, General Milley was planning a coup.
If this is true, he should be arrested along with Pelosi and Schumer. Now.
As defined in the Constitution, it’s ‘treason’ only during wartime. In other times it’s ‘sedition’..................
Yes. He’s the Gen who never saw combat as per his awards. He was an I’ve been in country REMF.
Yes, but if individual military officers are being told to promise fealty to another officer, who evidently considers himself not subordinate to civilian authority, that is already a violation of the Constitution.
This is very serious stuff.
What was he planning on doing with his sworn cadre? And it appears that much of this plot was at the behest of Nancy Pelosi.
Agree. Look at the trashing of America starting with Clinton and even back to LBJ’s handouts. Clinton and Bush pushed DADT. Hillary sold our Uranium to Russia. The treason and pushing trash on our military is disgusting to those WIA.
My take on what this means. This is my first take/opinion.
Gen. Miley knew the Chinese had attacked the United States by releasing and deliberately spreading the virus. He must have known that Trump knew that the Chinese had tampered in the election AND released the virus.
US policy is to launch weapons of mass destruction if attacked with weapons of mass destruction. In this case, it means that Trump had to consider releasing Nuclear weapons for the attack.
The good news for all of us everyday people, is that we did not have a thermonuclear exchange, because the people behind the collaboration of the Chinese biological attack were right here in the good old USA!
General Miley, with the help of the Chinese and the Speaker of the House, conspired to short circuit the US military response to an attack, because they were all in on it. He had all of his people convinced that Trump was the proble, the virus was an accident, and that the election was legitimate, and had them swear allegiance to him.
General Miley is still in charge. He is in charge because the Democrats approve of his actions.
Anybody who thinks I am missing something should write in.
The truth of your post is why without change the future of the US is bleak.
We have a very significant percentage of the populace who feel entitled to do whatever they can get away with in the furtherance of their personal agenda. Lying, vote fraud, made up accusations, character assassination, you name it.
When people believe they are justified in immorality because they believe their 'truth' is the real 'truth', you can't have a nation.
“...HE ORDERED THE COMMAND SWEAR LOYALTY TO HIM...”
Didn’t some lunatic do the same thing back in the late ‘30’s and early ‘40’s? The ultimate outcome wasn’t very good.
Watching the presser from Penagon. They are not going to speak of alligator in book. Jesus he is stuttering like a fool.
Allegations, I hate wordcheck.
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