Thanx for the heads-up on that reportage. I had not seen it before.
I opened the link to
DML News and they stated they had aggregated the story from '
The Hill'.
So I wen to 'The Hill'.
This is what they reported:
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"Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley moved to limit former President Trump's ability to call for a military strike or launch nuclear weapons days after the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot according to "Peril," an upcoming book about the end of Trump's presidency written by veteran journalist Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
Woodward and Costa wrote in their new book that Milley was worried that Trump might "go rogue,".
According to the two journalists, Milley "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."
Due to this perceived "decline," Woodward and Costa wrote that Milley convened a secret meeting at the Pentagon on Jan. 8 in order to review the process of military actions. ........Milley ordered senior military officials to not 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,
" he reportedly said.
Milley's fear of the president going "rogue" was apparently based on prior experience. According to "Peril," Trump issued a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan on Jan. 15, five days before he was set to step down from office.
As Woodward and Costa wrote, 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."
The Hill has reached out to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Trump's office for comment."
(emphasis by my avatar)