Writing tabloid books about former President Donald Trump, 78-year-old journalist-turned-political-hack Bob Woodward finds plenty of former government officials to denounce the flamboyant real estate tycoon. Whatever one says about Trump, he made a lot of enemies, more than willing, like 80-year-old House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), to denounce Trump. Woodward’s latest salacious fiction book about the last days of the Trump presidency finds former CIA Director Gena Haspel calling Trump a six-year-old in a tantrum. “Yesterday was appalling,” Haspel said Nov. 9, 2020, the day Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper. Apparently Haspel didn’t like Trump’s personnel move, secretly trashing the former president at every opportunity. “We are on the way to a right-wing coup. The whole thing is insanity. He is acting out like a six-year-old with a tantrum,” Haspel told Woodward.
Both Haspel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley were in a folie a deux, two like-minded people with the same ax to grind. Milley assured Haspel, “We’re steady as a rock. We’re going to keep our eye on the horizon. Keep alert to any risks, dangers. Keep the channels open,” Milley said, knowing he, like Haspel, were grossly exaggerating any concerns about Trump’s behavior. Woodward quoted Haspel and Milley in his new book “Peril,” that they were concerned, without any merit, that Trump was going to start WW III to keep himself in power, a standard Democrat talking point for Trump’s four years in office. Democrats compiled expert witness psychiatrist Yale University’s Dr. Bandy X. Lee to certify Trump as insane, a danger to U.S. national security. Lee, of course, was a disgrace to her profession, letting her anti-Trump politics influence he professional judgment.
Haspel and Milley let their hatred toward Trump to also influence their professional judgments, prompting Milley to contact his counterpart in China’s Peoples Liberation Army [PLA] to warm him Trump could start WW III. Milley had no facts on which to base his hysteria yet contacted China secretly to tell them he’d warn them about any impending attack. White House officials have no problem with Milley’s actions because he’s on the same page when it comes to denouncing Trump. Several prominent elected officials think that Miley, in contacting China, breached the chain of command, going over Trump’s head for no reason. Milley had zero reason to contact China to warn them about Trump’s erratic behavior. “That the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” promising to warn them if an attack was imminent. Milley’s knee-jerk actions showed his bad judgment.
Woodward likes assembling anything as long as it serves his political goal of discrediting Trump. Woodward wrote Democrats 2020 campaign talking points, blaming Trump in his 2020 book, “Rage,” for the Covid-19 crisis. Woodward insisted Trump knew everything about the Covid-19 crisis when he interviewed him Jan. 28, 2020. Woodward gave Democrats everything he needed to beat Trump in 2020, blaming him for the feckless response to the novel coronavirus crisis. Woodward never asked World Health Organization [WHO] Director-General Tedros Abhanom why he waited four months of declare a global pandemic March 11, 2020. Yet Woodward blamed Trump for knowing everything about stopping the virus Jan. 28. Democrats lapped up Woodward’s accusations, using it to toss Trump from office. Woodward never questioned anything Trump’s chief medical adviser, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said about the course of the pandemic sweeping the planet.
Just like his last book, Woodward’s now hopes to influence the House Select Committee that’s looking for anything to blame Trump for Jan. 6 riot. Quoting Haspel and Milley, Woodward got the right Trump-haters to denounce the former president for trying to cause WW III. When looking a Haspel and Milley’s statements, they’re Trump-haters looking to blame him for just about everything. Milley felt inclined to call China because he was worried about Trump starting WW III, something not supported by any facts, only pure politics. Milley and Haspel would have done anything to prevent Trump from getting another four years. Neither were really concerned about Trump starting WW III because they saw Trump look to disengage the U.S. from foreign wars during his four years in office. Milley and Haspel had no reason to assume the firing Esper was anything but business as usual.
Once Trump lost the Nov. 8, 2020 presidential election, the knives came out quickly, looking, in books like Woodward’s, to lash out at the earliest possible time. Milley’s contacts with China were entirely unnecessary, driven ponly by politics not any real concern about U.S. national security. Getting a chance to take a cheap shot a Trump, Milley and Haspel gladly took it but not because there was any risk to the country. Trump was irked after the Nov. 8 election because when TV networks went black Nov. 8, Trump was winning the race. When everyone woke up Nov. 9, Biden had taken the lead for good. Trump was aware that universal mail-in ballots made his reelection all the more improbable. When Biden was declared the victory, Trump was shocked that he was beat en by “Sleepy Joe.” Trump ran a good race but couldn’t compete with Democrats’ voter registration advantage.
