Pelosi had a 'total nuclear meltdown' on Jan. 6th, Trump's defense secretary ... trends now

Nancy Pelosi was in a 'state of total nuclear meltdown' during the January 6th insurrection, Donald Trump's Defense Secretary Christopher Miller writes in his forthcoming memoir, saying the then-speaker of the House called him 'incoherent' and 'shrieking' about 'a rowdy band of MAGA supporters' who were 'taking selfies' throughout the Capitol.

Miller describes – in gripping detail – the afternoon Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election in his book Soldier Secretary, out Tuesday, and available for pre-order on Amazon and obtained by DailyMail.com.

He was heavily critical of the Congressional leadership at the time – both Pelosi and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer but also of Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell.

He described the lawmakers as 'hyperventilating into the phone' as they demanded to know the status of troops coming to the Capitol.' 

'At this point in time, I had been President Donald Trump's Acting Secretary of Defense for approximately two months,' he writes in the introduction to his book.

'I had known when I took the job that it was going to be wild. But I never could have imagined anything like this—getting reamed out by a histrionic Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell as they implored me to send troops to forcibly expel a rowdy band of MAGA supporters, infiltrated by a handful of provocateurs, who were traipsing through the halls of the Capitol, taking selfies, and generally making a mockery of the entire institution.'

He writes in his more than 30 years in the Army: 'I had never seen anyone—not even the greenest, pimple-faced 19-year-old Army private—panic like our nation's elder statesmen did on January 6 and in the months that followed.'

Miller also blasts the leadership for staying in power too long instead of training a new generation of leaders: 'Do I blame a bunch of geriatrics for acting like a bunch of geriatrics? Of course not. But do I judge them for it? You're damned right I do. Most of all, I resent that we are ruled by a bunch of geriatrics that ruthlessly and selfishly maintain their hold on power and refuse to develop the next generation of leader.'

Some of what Miller describes in his book is shown in footage shot by Pelosi's daughter Alexandra Pelosi for a documentary about her mom. She shows the Congressional leaders huddled in a secure location after the Capitol was breached.

Schumer had called then-Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy at 3 p.m., after the Senate chamber had been breached, to say there were still Senators hiding in their Capitol offices who needed to be evacuated.

Schumer and Pelosi called several officials that day to demand help, including Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen. 

Miller also was on their call list.

'I'm going to call up the effing secretary of DoD,' Schumer said of Miller, while sitting next to Pelosi. They rang him at 3:44 p.m. on Schumer's flip phone, requesting a 'massive' response.

'Just pretend for a moment it was the Pentagon or the White House or some under entity that was under siege. They can logistically get there as you make the plan,' Pelosi told Miller, as shown in the documentary.

Pelosi ordered him to 'get troops to the Capitol now,' Miller recalled in his book, calling it ironic because of how she and Democrats blasted the use of National Guard troops to quiet the Black Lives Matter protests, which sprang up around the country after the murder of George Floyd.

'As soon as it was her a** on the line, Pelosi had been miraculously born again as a passionate, if less than altruistic, champion of law and order,' Miller writes in his 305-page memoir.

Pelosi's office was broken into by the rioters, who trashed it as they looked for her, shouting her name as they marched through it.  

Miller, who was appointed by Donald Trump to oversee the Pentagon after the then-president fired his Defense Secretary Mark Esper, spares no one except Trump in his memoir, which is filled with blunt language, laced with obscenities, and critical of military industrial complex.

Much of it focuses on his 31 years in the military - including his service in Iraq and Afghanistan - but he also talks about his service in the Trump administration, both on the National Security Council and at the Pentagon. 

His tenure on January 6th, 2021, garners a chapter in his book and a mention in the introduction. His role on the day was controversial and he had to defend how long it took the National Guard to help expel the MAGA supporters from the Capitol. 

Under the law, D.C. National Guard reports to the secretary of Defense.

As rioters stormed the Capitol that day, Pelosi and the rest of the congressional leadership were rushed to a security location near Capitol Hill, where they worked the phones to bring in back up for the overwhelmed D.C. national police.

Miller writes when he could finally get a word in, he told the Congressional leaders he had already ordered the 'complete mobilization of the District of Columbia National Guard and that forces were on their way to the Capitol as soon as they were properly equipped and synchronized with the Capitol Police.'

But, in his book, he accused the leaders of 'cowering like frightened children' for the world to see.

There are also some contradictions between what Miller writes about the day and the clips of his testimony released by the January 6th committee. 

Miller writes that, on January 3rd, he met with Trump in the Oval Office when the president asked about preparations for January 6th.

Miller told him of Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's request for National Guard support. 

He recounts their conversation:

'You're going to need 10,000 people,' President Trump said bluntly. I wasn't sure what to make of his prediction. Where did he get that number? I chalked it up to his fondness for hyperbole.

'Well, the Mayor only asked for 340,' I responded. 'But we're giving her everything she requests.'

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