Political trash comes from Watergate-famed journalist-turned-Democrat political-hack, 78-year-old Bob Woodward implicating Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley of talking secretly to his counterparts in Beijing during the last months of the Trump presidency. Milley confessed to Woodward that he reassured the Chinese during the contentious days following before and after Nov. 8, 2020 presidential election that he would notify Beijing before Trump intiated a nuclear war. In keeping with Democrats’ garbage narrative about Trump, Milley said he grew concerned that Trump could start WW III with the Chinese to stay in power, declaring martial law, refusing to leave the White House. Milley’s words mirrored the most pernicious Democrat talking points during the 2020 campaign that Trump was unhinged, not fit for duty and capable of some egregious act breaching U.S. national security.
Milley breached the civilian chain-of-command for the U.S. military, where only the commander-in-chief can conduct foreign policy, not military brass that take orders from the president. Yet 78-year-old President Joe Biden says he has the utmost confidence in Milley and has no plans to take disciplinary action, including relieving him of duty. Biden has confidence in Milley because he spews Democrat talking points, regurgitating nonsense still lingering from the 2020 campaign. Democrats spent four years accusing Trump of violating the Constitution, threatening to fire once Special Counsel Robert Mueller, engaging in a panoply of alleged crimes, pure fabrications by Democrats looking to remove Trump from office. Milley’s assertions about his fears that Trump would start WW III were utterly baseless, simply a continuation of the same demonization that went on for Trump’s four years.
Milley told Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng, China;s top general, that he would notify him before the U.S. launched any attack. “If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,” Milley was quoted telling the Chinese general in Woodward’s new book, “Peril.” Milley’s comments, if true, were based on pure politics, another hit job against Trump. Without any factual basis, Milley took U.S. national security into his own hands, violating the U.S. Constitution that permits only the commander-in-chief to authorize any such communication with a foreign power. Politics in the U.S. has gone wild with Biden thinking it’s OK for his chief general to go behind his back when he has some fantasy, but, more importantly, wants to harm Trump politically. Saying his call to Chinese Gen. Zuocheng was within his job description is outrageous, pure nonsense.
Milley knows the chain-of-command under the commander-in-chief, where the president is clearly responsible for initiating any contact with a foreign power, certainly on matters of U.S. national security. When Milley called Zuocheng, he was engaged in pure speculation, having no clue what Trump would or would not do. In his four years in office, Trump dealt with many tense situations in Iraq, Syria, Iran, North Korea and China, and never compromise U.S. national security. Trump was the last person to embroil the U.S. into a wasteful, costly foreign war, looking for exit strategies in U.S. military involvement overseas. “All Calls from the Chairman to his counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated and communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency,” said Dave Butler, Milley’s spokesman. Butler knows Milley violated the chain-of-command, going over Trump’s head.
Closing ranks around Milley, Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin said he had “full trust and confidence in Milley,” despite the fact that it was highly unusual for Milley to contact a foreign power, no less China, without the president’s approval. “Milley wasn’t elected to be president. I can’t even tell you how incredibly dangerous this is,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told conservative talk show host Glen Beck. “It threatens to tear apart our nation’s longstanding principle of civilian control of the military,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fl.) wrote to Biden, falling on deaf ears. Biden backs Milley because he’s a pawn in the Democrat political spin machine determined to discredit Trump, well after he left office. Biden says he has full confidence in Milley because he’s not in charge as commander-in-chief with the nation reeling from his failed exit strategy from Afghanistan, leaving 13 U.S. soldier dead.
Democrats and the complicit U.S. press back Milley because it follows the narrative that Trump was a menace to the United States. Biden’s inability to see how Milley breached his role as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff making up utter rubbish and communicating his nonsense to a foreign power. Biden’s confidence in Milley shows that the White House and U.S. military is in bad hands, not understanding basics about Constitutional power. “That is a treasonous statement and I cannot tell you how many people call up about it,” Trump said about Milley’s call to Li. “That is a disgrace,” understating the danger to U.S. national security. Milley has zero basis to conclude that Trump was “unhinged” or considering any kind of military action against China. Working on behalf of Biden’s 2020 campaign, Milley let politics get in the way of performing his job.
