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Pelosi Tried to Foment a Military Coup Against Trump
By Nick Arama | Jan 09, 2021 4:00 PM ET
The New York Times ran a story today about the actions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi behind the scenes against the president. Talk about “insurrection,” she was essentially fomenting a coup, and fomenting the military against the president, trying to remove him from the chain of command.
Here’s the way the New York Times reported it:
In a phone call to the chairman, Gen. Mark A. Milley, Ms. Pelosi appeared to be seeking to have the Pentagon leadership essentially remove Mr. Trump from his authorities as the commander in chief. That could be accomplished by ignoring the president’s orders or slowing them by questioning whether they were issued legally.
But General Milley appears to have made no commitments. Short of the cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment or removing Mr. Trump through impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate, it is unconstitutional to defy legal orders from the commander in chief.
Ms. Pelosi’s request, which she announced to the Democratic caucus as an effort to prevent “an unhinged president” from using the nuclear codes, was wrapped in the politics of seeking a second impeachment of Mr. Trump.
More:
Mr. Trump, they noted, is still the commander in chief; unless he is removed, the military is bound to follow his lawful orders. While military officials can refuse to carry out orders they view as illegal — or slow the process by sending those orders for careful legal review — they cannot remove the president from the chain of command. That would amount to a military coup, the officials said.
A coup. She’s encouraging that and a violation of the Constitution to consolidate her own effort against the president. This is an abuse of her own power to undermine her political opponent and a violation of the separation of powers. She has no right to interfere in the military chain of command. Yet, guarantee it, there will be no action taken against her and it will all be excused.
On June 1, 2020, during protests in Washington, D.C., in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, Milley joined National Guardsmen and various police forces assembling in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House.[47] Minutes later, the troops and police used tear gas and other riot control tactics to disperse rioting protestors so President Trump could stage a photo-op at nearby St. John's Episcopal Church. The church had been set on fire by BLM protesters and suffered extensive damage. About half an hour after that, Milley, in combat uniform, walked alongside the president from the White House to the church, drawing sharp criticism from former military officers and others.[48][49][50][51][52][53]
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/trump-pelosi-nuclear-military.html
Nancy Pelosi tried orchestrating a military coup against a sitting president.
- a fucking misdemeanor carrying penalty up to 1 year in jail. The rest is stuff like "committing disorderly conduct" and "theft of government property" - the latter is for removing a fucking empty envelope from the Lizard's office and for moving her fucking 1000-dollar lectern from one room to another inside the same fucking building.
Ridonkulous. They have fucking nothing.