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Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke with
the House speaker about her desire to limit an ‘unhinged’ Trump’s powers to declare nuclear war.

THE DEFENSE Department's top officer on Friday confirmed he had spoken
with Nancy Pelosi about President Donald Trump's powers as commander in
chief but in a carefully crafted statement distanced the Pentagon from any attempts by the House speaker or other congressional leaders to strip the president of his authorities.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-01-08/joint-chiefs-chairman-distances-pentagon-from-talk-of-disarming-trump

"Speaker Pelosi initiated a call with the chairman," Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, tells U.S. News. "He answered her questions regarding the process of
nuclear command authority."

The statement follows a letter Pelosi sent to Democratic colleagues on
Friday. She updated them about stunning events this week in the aftermath
of the violent mob of President Donald Trump's supporters that swarmed the Capitol shortly after he finished a rally roughly a mile away near the
White House. The protesters were attempting to prevent with force
Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

In her letter, Pelosi documents a conversation she had with Milley earlier
on Friday in a section titled, "Preventing an Unhinged President From
Using the Nuclear Codes."

Pelosi wrote that she discussed with Milley "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.

The dramatic language comes as Pelosi considers growing calls from
Democrats and some Republicans for new articles of impeachment against
Trump for his part in stirring up the mob that laid siege to the Capitol.
At least five people died as a result of the violence and dozens were
injured, including dozens of police officers.

Milley has wrought widespread condemnation previously for appearing to
support Trump's politicization of the military, including accompanying the president to a photo op at St. John's Church near the White House last
summer moments after police forcefully cleared the area of social justice protesters. Milley later apologized for his actions, saying his presence "created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics."

But Milley has also asserted the military's political neutrality in
domestic affairs, pushing back on reports that speculated about a
potential role in overturning or redoing last month's elections.

"We have established a very long 240-year tradition of an apolitical
military that does not get involved in domestic politics," Milley told NPR
in October. "We, the U.S. military, we are sworn to obey the lawful orders
of our civilian leadership. ... And we want to ensure that there is always civilian leadership, civilian control of the military, and we will obey
the lawful orders of civilian control of the military."

Pentagon staff members have gone to great lengths to distance themselves
from perceptions of politicization in recent months, dramatically limiting public exposure of its top officials.

### - haha can just imagine pelosi' concern of trumpy still running around
with the nuclear football tucked under his arm for another 2 weeks? lol
:)))

kinda hinting to milley maybe you's could just give him a fake one to play
with instead ahaha :P

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