I agree with this 100 per cent.

Under “normal” circumstances I would Never side with a Joints Chief Chairman taking steps to usurp or supplant the authority of the President. And under “normal” circumstances there should be REAL consequences to pay for any such effort.

BUT with Trump acting as President, WE were living in a country…A World…that can best be described as Anything but “Normal.”

The fool was and, in my opinion, remains the biggest threat to Our country and Our democracy.

ALL things considered, Gen. Milley did the right thing.

“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.”

He’s a dangerous child in a gown-up’s body….which is what I’ve been saying about him AND his supporters for quite some time now.

And the level of audacity it takes for that dangerous fool and ANY of his WEAK-azz lackies to call anyone else “a traitor to this country” is off the charts…smh!

After the call, Milley decided he had to act. He told his top service chiefs to watch everything “all the time.” He called the director of the National Security Agency, Paul Nakasone, and told him, “Needles up … keep watching, scan.” And he told then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, “Aggressively watch everything, 360.”

The authors write, ‘Milley was overseeing the mobilization of America’s national security state without the knowledge of the American people or the rest of the world.’

Woodward and Costa also write that ‘some might contend that Milley had overstepped his authority and taken extraordinary power for himself,’ but he 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.’

Milley’s fear that Trump could do something unpredictable came from experience. Right after Trump lost the election, Milley discovered the President had signed a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, before he left the White House.

The memo had been secretly drafted by two Trump loyalists. No one on the national security team knew about it, according to the book. The memo was eventually nullified, but Milley could not forget that Trump had done an end run around his top military advisers.

Woodward and Costa write that after January 6, Milley ‘felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions.’