Marsha Blackburn: ‘Did Nancy Pelosi Ask General Milley To Take An Action Outside of His Chain of Command?’

As questions swirl around Mark Milley over calls that he made to China’s top general, some are asking about his relationship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked in a tweet yesterday, “Did Nancy Pelosi ask General Milley to take an action outside of his chain of command?”

Liberals swooped in on the tweet to defend Pelosi and Milley, with activist Marianne Williamson replying, “Give me a break, Senator.”

“She wanted to know someone was going to make sure a madman didn’t set off a nuclear war just to help himself win an election,” Williamson added.

Give me a break, Senator. She wanted to know someone was going to make sure a madman didn’t set off a nuclear war just to help himself win an election.

— Marianne Williamson (@marwilliamson) September 17, 2021

A recent op-ed in the New York Post by Miranda Devine also asked a similar question. Devine wondered, “Is Nancy Pelosi pulling General Mark Milley’s strings?”

An article that was published by the Associated Press on Jan. 8 of this year was titled, “Precautions are in place to prevent Trump from launching a nuclear strike, Gen. Milley tells Pelosi.”

From the AP:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is telling fellow Democrats that the nation’s top military officer has told her there are safeguards in place that would prevent President Donald Trump from firing nuclear weapons.

Pelosi is holding a conference call with House Democrats about what they should do about Trump during his waning days in office, including the possibility of impeachment. Democrats and many Republicans blame Trump for this week’s deadly assault on the Capitol by pro-Trump rioters, and many say they are worried that Trump might try something irrational.

Before Friday’s conference call, Pelosi told her colleagues that she had asked Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about preventing Trump from initiating a nuclear strike. A person familiar with Friday’s call says Pelosi has told them that Milley has told her there are precautions in place that would prevent such an action by Trump.

The president has sole authority in the U.S. government to order the launch of a nuclear weapon. But if a military commander were to determine, on advice of his lawyers, that such an order was illegal, then the order could be refused.

It would be illegal to launch a nuclear attack for no reason or as a disproportionate response to a military provocation.

The person described Friday’s conference call on condition of anonymity because the call was limited to House Democrats.