Peril

Former Trump Defense Secretary Mark Esper has a new book out on Tuesday and it's a bit of a doozy He writes that in 2020, the former president

The most recent of which was peril.

Wouldn't it be almost cool to have that power?

Pence says, no, I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible.

No, no, no. You don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore. If you don't do this.

You took away my authority. You're not the president. I'm the goddamn president.

You're all fucked up, everybody. You're all fucked. Every one of you is fucked up.

And that got me thinking about how every Bob Woodward book has three core elements.

One, juicy insider details to sort of an omniscient voice that makes it impossible to verify said details. Three, a histrionic title.

The most recent of which was peril.

Wouldn't it be almost cool to have that power?

Pence says, no, I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible.

No, no, no. You don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore. If you don't do this.

if the reporting is accurate and Bob Woodard book is accurate about what Mark Milley did, they were involved in a coup.

Fox News Milley secretly called Chinese officials out of fear Trump would attack in the final days. The Bob Woodard book claims.

I know Woodward and Costa well enough to know that you should take everything they write with an enormous grain of salt.

And it was more of a defense saying I was ordered to do all that. I was totally fine within the chain of command because the then secretary of defense told me I should.

General Lee, this is Millie on October 30 2020. General Lee, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you. You and I have known each other for now five years, I could I could be with you on it. So far, I could say, okay, you know, he's, he's got some intel. He's trying to say we're not we're not planning an attack, contrary to what you may be here.

If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise.

And this is a quote now in the same context. He's crazy. You know, he's crazy. He's crazy. And what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness.

General Lee, this is Millie on October 30 2020. General Lee, I want to assure you that the American government is stable, and everything is going to be okay. We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.

If we're going to attack, I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise.

He's crazy. You know, he's crazy. He's crazy. And what he did yesterday is further evidence of his craziness.

I agree with you on everything

General Milley in the final days of Donald Trump's presidency, two days after the January 6 attack, and then thereafter, was doing a couple of things.

He worried that Trump could go rogue.

He called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8th to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons, speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon's war room.

General Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was personally involved.

He was afraid based on, quote, Trump's erratic behavior.

These books, you know, written by the, you know, these great reporters like Bender and and and Carol Anig and and Phil Rucker, they don't actually have that much on what Trump was actually doing

but a written order on November 11th to immediately withdraw all troops from Somalia and Afghanistan immediately before the Biden inaugural.

This is confirming something that Bob Woodward had written in his book, Peril, but a written order on November 11th to immediately withdraw all troops from Somalia and Afghanistan, immediately before the Biden inaugural.

if these people say you have the power, wouldn't you want to?

I wouldn't want any one person to have that authority.

but wouldn't it almost be cool to have that power?

no, look, I've read this and I don't see a way to do it. We've exhausted every option. I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible. My interpretation is no.

no, no, no. You don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this.

I know Sanders and I know the kind of things that he says about women and to women.

everyone comes up to me and says I would vote for you if you had a penis.

According to Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's book, Peril, conservative lawyer and guy who cheats at settlers of Catan cities and nights by taking advantage that some of the off-white and white pieces look alike.

In their forthcoming book, Peril, Bob Woodward and Robert Costa claim that the chair of the Joint Chiefs, General Mark Milley, feared Trump might go rogue after losing the election and told US military officials that they should get his permission to launch nukes and secretly contacted a top general in China.

Vice President is reported to have said, no, look, I've read this and I don't see a way to do it. We've exhausted every option. I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible. To which the president says, no, no, no, you don't understand, Mike. You can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this.

If these people say you have the power, wouldn't you want to?

I wouldn't want any one person to have that authority.

But wouldn't it almost be cool to have that power?

No look I've read this and I don't see a way to do it. We've exhausted every option. I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible. My interpretation is no.

No no no you don't understand Mike you can do this. I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this.

Secretary of Defense, I should say, Mark Esper, who wrote in his book about what a good job Tim Walls did with that.