On June 11, 2020, General Mark Milley gave an address as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the graduates of National Defense University, and he apologized for his appearance in a photo with President Trump after there had been a night of violent riots in Washington D.C. by far-left terrorists. “I should not have been there,” he told the graduates. “My presence…created a perception of the military being involved in domestic politics.” General Milley was referring to the photo-op where he was standing by President Trump as they toured the ruins of the historic St. John’s Church that had been torched by nutjob arsonists the night before.
The Democrats nominated Mark Milley to the position of the Army Chief of Staff in 2015 and he was confirmed by the Senate in August 2015. Defense One reported that his rise to the position of top office came relatively quickly. He was commander of the U.S. Forces Command, but he only held that position for nine months. Moreover, he was only the deputy commander of the Afghanistan war and ran the international coalition’s day-to-day responsibilities. But hold on, it’s going to get worse. Even though it was discovered that critical race theory was being taught at West Point, Milley not only stuck to his guns, but he actually DEFENDED the practice! It was at a congressional hearing that Milley told lawmakers that he believed it was important to understand various schools of thought.
General Milley even went so far as to tell the Armed Services Committee that he had read dictators such as Mao Zedong, communists such as Marx and Lenin, and plenty of others, but “that doesn’t make me a communist. So what is wrong with understanding the country that we are here to defend?”
So now we have President Biden’s failed, yet “woke” chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one General Mark Milley, who now finds himself in hot water because of excerpts from Bob Costa and the legendary journalist Bob Woodward that say that had such hatred and disgust for President Trump that he committed what 45 calls an act of treason. The Daily Mail is reporting that Trump believes that General Milley is guilty of treason if he went behind his back and promised that he would alert China to a pending attack from the United States.
Of course, the former president was responding to the bombshell allegations in the new book that claimed that General Mark Milley literally didn’t trust Trump as far as he could throw him, even going so far as calling his Chinese counterpart last year over concerns that Trump was planning on going to war with them.
If it is actually true – which is hard to believe that he would have called China, and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or in advance of an attack – that’s treason,’ Trump said during his latest interview on Newsmax TV with Sean Spicer.
These revelations came from an excerpt in “Peril” by journalists Robert Costa and Bob Woodward where they suggest that Milley feared Trump was ready to launch a nuclear war in response to his November election defeat to his successor Joe Biden.
Milley was evidently seeking to assure General Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army that the U.S. was not planning on launching strikes in the wake of their election. Indeed, in one call Milley claimed that he was going to use backchannels to let his counterpart know if attack was imminent.
These deadlines triggered a new wave of condemnation from GOP members who accused Milley of treason and demanded that he resign.
This angered the 45th President and Trump dismissed these claims, saying that Milley was only out to distract from his own role in Afghanistan.
I think he’s trying to just get out of his incompetent withdrawal out of Afghanistan, the worst, the dumbest thing that anybody’s seen … probably the most embarrassing thing that’s ever happened to our country,’ he said.
Trump also repeated his frequent condemnation of the way that the Biden Administration is handling Afghanistan, and that was before he turned his attention to the allegations in the new book. Many of the excerpts were leaked by the New York Times, CNN, and the Washington Post.
Trump said: ‘Milley made it up. he made this story about me attacking China.
Think of it, I’m going to attack China. What’s the reason exactly, other than that they screw a certain trade?
‘You don’t attack them for that.’
And he described Milley’s alleged behavior as ‘a disgrace.’
‘He was going to inform them when that will take place so they could be prepared,’ he said.
‘That is a treasonous statement and I cannot tell you how many people called up about it.’
Trump originally named General Milley to the top post in 2018, but their relationship cooled and there have been many instances of where their clashes seeped into the public view with several accounts regarding the final days of the Trump Administration.
The latest account details how Milley took several extraordinary steps after the January 6th Capitol riot because he had concerns that an “unstable” President Trump was going to do some military action in a bid to stay in office and cancel the incoming Biden Administration.
Milley began by meeting with top military officials in the Pentagon just days after the MAGA riot and he alerted them that he must be kept in the process for all military actions, including using any type of nuclear weapons.
‘If you get calls, no matter who they’re from, there’s a process here, there’s a procedure. No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,’ he allegedly told them.
Milley thought that Trump was suffering from “serious mental decline”, according to the book, which relies on Woodward’s “deep background” information sources, even if they are anonymous. Woodward will also normally look at interviews and documents to attempt to reconstruct the events and conversations.
“The strict procedures are explicitly designed to avoid inadvertent mistakes or accident or nefarious, unintentional, illegal, immoral, unethical launching of the world’s most dangerous weapons,’ he continued.
‘Got it?’ Milley asked his team members. ‘Yes, sir,’ they replied, in an exchange Milley was considering ‘an oath.’
Milley also is on record for telling CIA Director Gina Haspel: ‘Aggressively watch everything, 360.’
Milley feared Trump might seek to use such an attack to achieve a Reichstag fire type incident, where he would cite the dangerous new situation to cling to power. Milley afterward concluded Li was ‘unusually rattled.’
‘General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,’ Milley reportedly told him.
Oh brother. Just more character assassination of President Trump.