{"id":1556737,"date":"2022-07-15T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556737"},"modified":"2022-07-15T16:04:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T20:04:31","slug":"lawmakers-say-mark-milley-needs-to-answer-report-he-broke-trumps-chain-of-command","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-say-mark-milley-needs-to-answer-report-he-broke-trumps-chain-of-command\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Say Mark Milley Needs to Answer Report He Broke Trump\u2019s Chain of Command"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-say-mark-milley-needs-to-answer-report-he-broke-trumps-chain-of-command%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556737&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Congressional lawmakers have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/grassley-banks-call-on-milley-set-record-straight-on-whether-general-interceded-in-chain-of-command\">asked<\/a> Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mark-milley\">Mark Milley<\/a> to respond to claims that he cut off the chain of command while serving under the Trump administration in early 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican lawmakers\u2019 letter was issued in response to allegations in last year\u2019s book, \u201cPeril,\u201d that he made phone calls to a top Chinese Communist Party counterpart twice in early 2021 to tell him that the United States had no plans to attack China. Republicans, including Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.), have suggested that his calls usurped the statutory chain of command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilley has yet to respond\u201d to their \u201cnow months-old questions. Lawmakers have been seeking clarity on this serious potential breach of the American democratic order\u201d since the publication of the book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/grassley-banks-call-on-milley-set-record-straight-on-whether-general-interceded-in-chain-of-command\">said<\/a> Grassley and Banks in a release on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The book also alleged Milley told top-level military officers not to follow then-President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s orders unless he approved them beforehand. One of the calls to the CCP official allegedly occurred two days after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach, according to the book, which was authored by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf those books and all attended press coverage of those books, had contained gross misrepresentations. We would have heard about it a long time ago. He would have hammered the authors and corrected the record,\u201d Grassley said in a speech on the floor of the Senate, according to a transcript. \u201cHowever, to date, not a peep from the general. His silence speaks volumes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grassley added that the general\u2019s alleged actions \u201cstrike at the heart of our democracy\u2014civilian control of the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe may have stepped out of his lane as the president\u2019s principal military adviser and into the statutory chain of command, where law doesn\u2019t allow him to go,\u201d Grassley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional lawmakers have\u00a0asked Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley to respond to claims that he cut off the chain of command while serving under the Trump administration in early 2021. The Republican lawmakers\u2019 letter was issued in response to allegations in last year\u2019s book, \u201cPeril,\u201d that he made phone calls to a top [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}