Judicial Watch Makes Move, Files FOIA Lawsuit For Pelosi Records From Jan. 8 Phone Call About Trump

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told House members on January 8 that she had called Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley to ask what was being done to prevent then President Trump from accessing nuclear launch codes, calling the president “unhinged.”

On Wednesday, Judicial Watch announced that they had it had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense for records about that phone call.

The FOIA lawsuit asks for “any and all records” involving the call and “includes, but is not limited to, any and all transcripts, recordings, and/or summaries of the call, as well as any other records produced in preparation for, during, and/or pursuant to the call.”

The organization also seeks “Any and all additional records of communication between Gen. Milley and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi between November 1, 2020 and the present.”

The president of Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton, had his personal Twitter account suspended around the time of that phone call and he has not posted on the platform from it since.

Fitton’s last tweets reference that phone call and he called Pelosi’s actions a “coup” in multiple tweets.

In one, Fitton explained further, “Corrupt left media doesn’t care about leftists destroying our constitutional structure and literally encouraging military opposition to a sitting president. Will any House member call on Pelosi to step down or be impeached?”

Coup. But corrupt left media doesn't care about leftists destroying our constitutional structure and literally encouraging military opposition to a sitting president. Will any House member call on Pelosi to step down or be impeached? https://t.co/unn0CWjeTQ

— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 9, 2021

In a letter to House Democrats on Jan. 8, Pelosi said, “”This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.”

From NBC:

“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,” Pelosi continued.

Many congressional Democrats, and at least one Republican, have called for removing the president immediately. The 25th Amendment of the Constitution allows the vice president and a majority of the executive Cabinet to force the president out by declaring him “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.” In that case, the vice president would take over.

If that fails, Pelosi said Congress will move to impeach and remove Trump for his “dangerous and seditious acts.”

“If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action,” Pelosi said.