{"id":756664,"date":"2021-09-15T20:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T00:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=756664"},"modified":"2021-09-15T20:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T00:21:29","slug":"gen-milley-appears-to-defend-talking-to-china-behind-president-trumps-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gen-milley-appears-to-defend-talking-to-china-behind-president-trumps-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen. Milley appears to defend talking to China behind President Trump\u2019s back"},"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\">24<\/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-appears-to-defend-talking-to-china-behind-president-trumps-back%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=756664&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 id=\"attachment_2521195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2521195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley looks on after a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark Wilson\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 5:15 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, September 15, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley did not appear to deny Bob Woodward\u2019s account of his controversial talks with Chinese officials. In a statement on Wednesday, Milley\u2019s spokesperson said his talks with Chinese officials last October and this past January were aimed at \u201cmaintaining strategic stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added Milley acted within his \u201cauthority in tradition of civilian control of the military.\u201d Woodward found Milley reassured China would not carry out President Trump\u2019s orders and he would warn Beijing if Trump authorized military action against China.<\/p>\n<p>Critics have said Milley\u2019s actions could amount to treason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark Milley is a threat to the American Republic and he\u2019s clearly not a Republican and he clearly does not believe in America first,\u201d asserted political commentator Dr. Sebastian Gorka. \u201cHe is a coward and he\u2019s a dangerous coward.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If we lived in a Republic with rule-of-law, Mark Milley would have been arrested and already on trial for treason.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SebGorka\/status\/1437973229373726720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Amid the controversy, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Biden has full confidence in Milley as a \u201cman of honor.\u201d Far-left commentators in mainstream media have also praised Milley as a \u201chero\u201d and a \u201creal patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-cruz-vows-to-filibuster-democrat-efforts-to-raise-debt-ceiling\/\">Sen. Cruz Vows To Filibuster Democrat Efforts To Raise Debt Ceiling<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army General Mark Milley looks on after a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756664","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\/756664","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756664\/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=756664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}