{"id":751797,"date":"2021-09-14T14:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=751797"},"modified":"2021-09-14T14:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T18:21:55","slug":"gen-milley-worried-trump-would-go-rogue-warned-chinas-top-general-in-secret-back-channel-phone-calls-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-milley-worried-trump-would-go-rogue-warned-chinas-top-general-in-secret-back-channel-phone-calls-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Milley Worried Trump Would \u2018Go Rogue,\u2019 Warned China\u2019s Top General In Secret \u2018Back-Channel\u2019 Phone Calls: Book"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fgen-milley-worried-trump-would-go-rogue-warned-chinas-top-general-in-secret-back-channel-phone-calls-book%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=751797&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Mark-Milley-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In their new book, \u201cPeril,\u201d journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa claim that Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was so concerned that then-President Donald Trump would \u201cgo rogue\u201d and \u201cspark a war with China\u201d that he made a \u201cpair of secret phone calls\u201d to his counterpoint in China, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/14\/peril-woodward-costa-trump-milley-china\/\">per the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoodward and Costa write that after January 6, Milley \u2018felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions,&#8217;\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/09\/14\/politics\/woodward-book-trump-nuclear\/index.html\">CNN writeup on the same report,<\/a>&nbsp;that added that Milley thought Trump might \u201cwag the dog\u201d \u2014 provoke \u201ca conflict domestically or abroad to distract from his crushing election loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milley was so fearful of Trump attacking China, the Post notes, that he appears to have undermined the Trump administration and communicated directly with Chinese officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People\u2019s Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike,\u201d the pair of reporters noted. \u2018One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election that unseated President Trump, and the other on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol siege carried out by his supporters in a quest to cancel the vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shockingly, according to Woodward and Costa, it seems Milley communicated sensitive information to a Chinese general and even suggested that he would warn China ahead of time if he discovered that Trump planned to attack.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p><em>The first call was prompted by Milley\u2019s review of intelligence suggesting the Chinese believed the United States was preparing to attack. That belief, the authors write, was based on tensions over military exercises in the South China Sea, and deepened by Trump\u2019s belligerent rhetoric toward China.<\/em><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" readability=\"11\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\"><em>\u201cGeneral Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,\u201d Milley told him. \u201cWe are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div readability=\"17.5\">\n<div data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" readability=\"34.5\">\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p class=\"font--article-body font-copy gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-el=\"text\"><em>In the book\u2019s account, Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they\u2019d established through a backchannel. \u201cGeneral Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we\u2019re going to attack, I\u2019m going to call you ahead of time. It\u2019s not going to be a surprise.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-el=\"text\">The Washington Post noted that Li took Milley \u201cat his word.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">The CNN writeup also noted that Milley had a conversation with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who, herself, seemed prepared to assume power.<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cMilley received a blunt phone call from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to the book. Woodward and Costa exclusively obtained a transcript of the call, during which Milley tried to reassure Pelosi that the nuclear weapons were safe,\u201d per CNN. \u201cPelosi pushed back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">\u201cWhat I\u2019m saying to you is that if they couldn\u2019t even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, who even knows what else he may do? And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?\u201d Pelosi reportedly told the General. \u201cYou know he\u2019s crazy. He\u2019s been crazy for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-el=\"text\">Milley, the authors wrote, told Pelosi that he \u201cagreed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Woodward and Costa\u2019s book covers the waning days of the Trump administration, most notably the period following the election but before Trump was scheduled to leave office, and chronicles the Biden campaign. The book \u201cis based on interviews with more than 200 people, conducted on the condition they not be named as sources. Exact quotations or conclusions are drawn from the participant in the described event, a colleague with direct knowledge or relevant documents, according to an author\u2019s note. Trump and Biden declined to be interviewed,\u201d the Washington Post said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their new book, \u201cPeril,\u201d journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa claim that Gen. 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