Milley Took Steps To Prevent Trump From Launching a Nuclear Strike After Jan. 6: Report

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was reportedly so concerned about then-President Donald Trump’s mental state after the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6 that he took steps to ensure the commander-in-chief could not launch a nuclear strike.

The new account is detailed in the forthcoming book “Peril” written by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of The Washington Post, and was first reported by CNN.

According to the book, Milley “single-handedly took top-secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike or launching nuclear weapons.”

Milley was reportedly “deeply shaken by the assault, ‘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.”

The top general told aides that he was afraid Trump would “go rogue,” adding, “You never know what a president’s trigger point is.”

He reportedly told aides not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.- READ MORE