It fell on General Milley to assure the stability of the country - from Face the Nation

[question everything]

JOHN DICKERSON: Bob, I want to -- from the 360-degree view, let's go down to a single moment of testimony We're going to play from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Milley, General Milley. We're going to play some of the testimony, and then I want to get your reaction to it.

GEN. MARK MILLEY (Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff): There were two or three calls with Vice President Pence. He was very animated. And he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders to Secretary Miller: "Get the military, get the Guard down here, put down this situation," et cetera.

JOHN DICKERSON: So, Bob, your book "Peril" opens with Milley.

Explain why that testimony was important and what it led to.

ROBERT COSTA: That testimony in particular showed the entire nation that January 6 was an attack on the Capitol, it was a potential constitutional crisis, in terms of how it was unfolding on Capitol Hill.

But that testimony shows us it was also a crisis in the American presidency. Was then-President Trump doing his duty as commander in chief of the U.S. military? There was an attack on the Capitol, the houses of Congress, and he was sitting idle in the Oval Office or in the Dining Room, just a few steps away.

And it fell to the vice president to make calls to the National Guard. And it raises real questions about who was in charge in the United States? And the rest of the world, as Bob Woodward and I documented, were on high alert about the stability of the United States. It's something that's almost hard to think about, that the rest of the world was wondering, is the United States stable?

JOHN DICKERSON: That's right.

And General Milley worried about who was in charge beyond just that moment.

https://news.yahoo.com/full-transcript-face-nation-june-181100761.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall (and scroll down)

U.S. Made 2 Calls in 4 Months to Assure China It Would Not Attack During Trump Admin: Book

https://www.newsweek.com/us-made-2-calls-4-months-assure-china-it-would-not-attack-during-trump-admin-book-1629071

Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley made two calls to China over a 4 month period to assure the Asian nation that the U.S. would not attack, according to a new book from two Washington Post journalists.

Milley, the U.S' top military officer, made the calls on October 30, 2020, just days before the presidential election, and on January 8, 2021, two days after the U.S. Capitol riot as Congress met to confirm Joe Biden's win over Donald Trump, the duo's book, Peril, says.

[kimbutgar]

1. I remember being in Europe in 2017, 2018 and last in 2019

I would get asked what happened to your country to elect such a fool as President? When I was asked where I was from I’d say California not the USA. It was code for I’m not a crazy American and they picked that up. But overseas they were wary of the US during the TFG years.

[Tumbulu]

5. I think they are still wary

and the thing is that we have done nothing to stop what caused TFG from occupying that office. The coordinated hate am radio stations. That have polluted the minds of the entire rural population so thoroughly that there is no way to reach them with reason.

With the power of the Senate predominately in the hands of the rural states, there is little hope until something is done about the power of coordinated propaganda over 35 years, just because Limbaugh died, the power of this way of thinking and all of his minions spewing this point of view have only metastasized.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Republicans couldn't even convict Trump the second impeachment time around

Now they're not cooperating with J6 Committee.

[yaesu]

3. Was then-President Trump doing his duty as commander in chief? How can you even ask that after all

this time and evidence? The grifter not only didn't do his duty he committed treason! MSM needs to quit pretending to be a news source & start being a news source.

[Fiendish Thingy]

4. Pence and Milley essentially circumvented the 25th amendment by themselves

Anybody hear of any Republicans anywhere complaining about this breach in the chain of command?

Nope, didn’t think so.

And if the GOP takes back the house, I don’t think we will likely see any investigation into the matter either- to do so would be to examine and confirm just how incapacitated and derelict Trump was during the insurrection.

[tavernier]

6. Milley was appalled with Trump's behavior...

Pence was dodging bullets and the hangman’s rope to save our republic…

Gosh, darn, I can hear the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing now.

Incredible how these heroes saved us at the last minute.