Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took top-secret action to protect nuclea

[Jedi Guy]

32. I get what Vindman and you are saying here, and ordinarily I would agree.

However, Trump was not an ordinary President by any stretch of the imagination. He never had his shit in one sock to begin with, and after he lost the election, the sock was missing in action and the shit was spread hither, thither, and yon. Yes, Milley most certainly threw out the rulebook by doing what he did. In a perfect world, the cabinet would've come together and invoked the 25th Amendment.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world and I doubt like hell that the rules were written with a President like Trump in mind. Milley broke the rules, but his reasons for doing so were sterling. I find it very hard to fault him for what he did, particularly since one shudders to think what might have happened if he hadn't.

Given the totality of the circumstances, I think he should be quietly asked to retire and the matter should be considered closed with that.