Pelosi told top general Trump should have been 'arrested on the spot' for inciting Capitol riot
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told top U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley that then-President Donald Trump was a "dictator" who "should have been arrested on the spot" for inciting the Capitol riot on Jan. 6.
And it reveals safeguards Milley put in place to avoid Trump starting a nuclear war after refusing to accept Biden had won. "But it is a sad state of affairs for our country that we've been taken over a by a dictator who used force against another branch of government," the California Democrat Pelosi told Milley during the call several days after the riot, according to "Peril," the new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
The book says that Milley believed that the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters was a planned, coordinated attack that was designed to overthrow the U.S. government to prevent Congress from certifying the election ofThe riot began shortly after Trump urged the crowd at a rally outside the White House to march to the Capitol and fight against the confirmation of Biden's Electoral College victory. The invasion delayed for hours Biden's confirmation, and directly lead to five deaths.
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