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Gen. 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.'
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Milley's fear was based on his own observations of Trump's erratic behavior. His concern was magnified by the events of January 6 and the 'extraordinary risk' the situation posed to US national security, the authors write.
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Milley had already had two back-channel phone calls with China's top general, who was on high alert over the chaos in the US.
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Gen Milley agrees with Speaker Pelosi’s brutal assessment of Trump’s state of mind: 
📌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.
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📌The AFG withdrawal memo had been secretly drafted by two Trump loyalists. No one on the national security team knew about it. The memo was eventually nullified, but Milley could not forget that Trump had done an end run around his top military advisers.
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📌Woodward and Costa write that after Jan 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.'
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📌Woodward and Costa write that top national security officials were worried Trump might pull a "Wag the Dog" -- provoking a conflict domestically or abroad to distract from his crushing election loss.
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📌When Trump refused to concede in November 2020, Haspel warned Milley, "We are on the way to a right-wing coup. The whole thing is insanity.
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📌Bannon, who had been indicted in April 2020 and later pardoned by Trump, played a critical role in the events leading up to Jan 6.
On Dec 30, Bannon convinced Trump to come back to the White House from Mar-a-Lago to prepare for the events of January 6.
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On Dec 30, Bannon convinced Trump to come back to the White House from Mar-a-Lago to prepare for the events of January 6.
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"You've got to return to Washington and make a dramatic return today," Bannon told Trump. "You've got to call Pence off the fucking ski slopes and get him back here today. This is a crisis."
Bannon told Trump that January 6 was "the moment for reckoning."
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Bannon told Trump that January 6 was "the moment for reckoning."
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People are going to go, 'What the fuck is going on here?' " Bannon believed.
“We're going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him," Bannon said.
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“We're going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him," Bannon said.
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Trump to Pence: 'I don't want to be your friend anymore'
"Peril" also describes the tense encounter in the Oval Office on January 5 when Trump pressured Pence to overturn the results of the election.
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"Peril" also describes the tense encounter in the Oval Office on January 5 when Trump pressured Pence to overturn the results of the election.
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Trump pressures Pence to decertify the election — the exchange:
📌June 2021 — BLM protests
Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act.
Trump wanted to invoke the Insurrection Act.
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