The initial reports on the contents of the new book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa came trickling in this afternoon.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1387419
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1387419
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In conversations with senior staff, Milley reportedly likened Jan. 6 to the 1905 Russian Revolution, which was put down by the Tsar but presaged the successful 1917 revolutions that overthrew the country’s government.
I can see why Republicans don’t want Milley reading books or studying history.
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The book says that Trump himself told Pence “I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this,” and later said: “You’ve betrayed us. I made you. You were nothing.”
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““Things may look unsteady,” the New York Times reported Milley as saying,
“but that’s the nature of democracy, General Li.”
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“What you might have seen was a precursor to something far worse down the road…”
Milley has a Bachelor’s in politics from Princeton; his thesis was “A Critical Analysis of Revolutionary Guerrilla Organization in Theory and Practice”. He’s also got a Master’s from Columbia in International Relations and a Master’s in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College. Maybe we should listen to him.
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Jesus. How prescient and correct she is.
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Milley is one smart cookie. Bless him.
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In one episode, retired Gen. Keith Kellogg, who served as Pence’s national security adviser, was in the White House with Trump while he watched the insurrection unfold on television.
Kellogg urged Trump to act.
“You really should do a tweet,” Kellogg said, according to the authors. “You need to get a tweet out real quick, help control the crowd up there. This is out of control. They’re not going to be able to control this. Sir, they’re not prepared for it. Once a mob starts turning like that, you’ve lost it.”
“Yeah,” Trump said. The authors write, ‘Trump blinked and kept watching television.’
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Dan Quayle as the voice of reason.
First Bush and now Quayle.
Strange days.
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McConnell knew Trump was nuts. But…becuz judges…
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He is one of those college boys. All highfaluting with their book larn’n.
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It is just another example of how low the bar is for Republicans to be “reasonable” or “moderate”.
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N tax breaks
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WHY do theY cUT off BIden’s MIKE???
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“What you might have seen was a precursor to something far worse down the road,” the book quotes him as saying.
And this is why we need to have consequences for the 1/6 insurrection. Traitors need to be treated like traitors. Treason needs to be treated like treason.
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The select committee needs to get those folks to testify. I want it on record, on camera.
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McConnell was living on the edge to get what he wanted. It almost cost all of us. And that story is still being written as it is.
In reading the excerpts from the book earlier, I realized my heart was pounding again. We said the guy was nuts and unfortunately we were too damn correct in that view.
So the question I have for people in general, how solid do you think the Woodward-Costa reporting is? I know the general sense of that answer, but deep down, are they good?
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