Trump was a loose cannon. The man is mentally unstable (even more than Biden) and should have been removed from office. Milley's oath is to the Constitution, not the President. Thank God for Pence and Milley. And some people on these boards think character doesn't matter. It matters immensely.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-costa-book-trump-afghanistan-memo/index.html
"Just eight days after the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump was so determined to end the war in Afghanistan during his presidency that he secretly signed a memo to withdraw all troops by January 15, 2021, according to a new book, "Peril," from journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
The November 11 memo, according to the authors, had been secretly drafted by two Trump loyalists and never went through the normal process for a military directive -- the secretary of defense, national security adviser and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs had all never seen it.
Unpredictable, impulsive, Trump had done an end run around his whole national security team.
At the White House, the three men paid a surprise visit to national security adviser Robert O'Brien and showed him the signed memo.
"How did this happen?" Milley asked O'Brien, according to the book. "Was there any process here at all? How does a president do this?"
O'Brien looked at the memo and said, "I have no idea," according to the authors.
"What do you mean you have no idea? You're the national security adviser to the President?" Milley responded. "And the secretary of defense didn't know about this? And the chief of staff to the secretary of defense didn't know about this? The chairman didn't know. How the hell does this happen?"
O'Brien took the memo and left. While the officials had briefly debated whether the memo could be a forgery, Trump confirmed to O'Brien that he had signed it."
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