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 |  Subject: Idiotic Pelosi spoke with top US military leader about preventing Donald Trump launching nuclear strike  Fri Jan 08, 2021 10:07 pm | |
| Nancy Pelosi spoke with the US military’s top commander about stopping an “unhinged” Donald Trump from launching a nuclear strike during his remaining days in office, it emerged on Friday.
In a letter to colleagues, the Democratic House Majority leader said she and Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley had discussed the “available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike”.
“The situation of this unhinged President could not be more dangerous, and we must to everything that we can to protect the American people from his unbalanced assault on our country and our democracy,” she wrote.
The extraordinary intervention came as Democrats tried to ramp up pressure on Vice-President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday.
Five people including a Capitol Police officer have now died following the riot. Mr Trump held a rally near the White House earlier in the day and has been accused of inciting the violence after urging his supporters to march on Capitol, where lawmakers has gathered to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
Three House Democrats are planning to introduce articles of impeachment against Mr Trump on Monday. But in her letter, Speaker Pelosi reiterated her preference that Republicans take responsibility for removing their own president from office.
"As you know there is growing momentum around the invocation of the 25th Amendment, which would allow the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet to remove the President for his incitement of insurrection and the danger he still poses.
"Yesterday, Leader [Chuck] Schumer and I placed a call with Vice President Pence, and we still hope to hear from him as soon as possible with a positive answer as to whether he and the Cabinet will honour their oath to the Constitution and the American people”.
“Nearly fifty years ago, after years of enabling their own rogue President, Republicans in Congress finally told President Nixon that it was time to go. Today, allow the President’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress needs to follow that example and call on Trump to depart his office immediately.
“If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly the Congress will proceed with our own action”.
Mr Trump initially refused to condemn Wednesday’s rioters and was temporarily locked out of his Twitter account after posting a video repeating baseless allegations of voter fraud and telling supporters: “I know how you feel.”
Eventually, facing a torrent of political outrage, he relented. On Thursday he released a stilted, scripted video address, in which he deplored the “violence and destruction” on Capitol Hill and for the first time promised a "smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power”.
But old habits die hard; on Friday he tweeted that he would not be attending Mr Biden’s inauguration on January 20.
Earlier he had posted: “The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”
.https://www.standard.co.uk/news/us-politics/nancy-pelosi-nuclear-strike-donald-trump-us-military-b764090.html
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