{"id":798415,"date":"2021-09-21T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=798415"},"modified":"2021-09-21T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T16:28:41","slug":"bob-woodward-says-milleys-china-call-was-made-in-the-interest-of-protecting-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bob-woodward-says-milleys-china-call-was-made-in-the-interest-of-protecting-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Woodward Says Milley\u2019s China Call Was Made \u2018In The Interest Of Protecting The Country\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fbob-woodward-says-milleys-china-call-was-made-in-the-interest-of-protecting-the-country%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=798415&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><\/div>\n<p>Bob Woodward claimed during a Monday night appearance on MSNBC that Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley\u2019s calls to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of the Trump administration, which he detailed in his upcoming book, were \u201cin the interest of protecting the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In two secret phone calls that took place before the 2020 election and after the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, Milley allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/mark-milley-warn-china-trump-phone-call-military-strike\/\">assured<\/a> Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People\u2019s Liberation Army that the U.S. would not strike China and he would warn the Chinese in case of an attack, according to the upcoming book \u201cPeril\u201d authored by Woodward and fellow journalist Robert Costa.<\/p>\n<p>Milley also allegedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/mark-milley-trump-nuclear-weapons-pelosi-woodward\/\">subverted<\/a> the nuclear chain of command and civilian control of the military by taking secret action to prevent former President Donald Trump from using nuclear weapons after the Capitol riot, according to the book.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward appeared to suggest during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/transcripts\/transcript-last-word-lawrence-o-donnell-9-20-21-n1279711\">appearance<\/a> on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cThe Last Word\u201d that Milley\u2019s calls to his Chinese counterpart, which were not disclosed to Trump, were justified because \u201csensitive intelligence\u201d prior to the 2020 election indicated Beijing thought the U.S. was \u201cgoing to launch an attack on them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.022471910112\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cOur reporting? Zero evidence, absolutely zero evidence of some sort of treason or the idea of doing something not in the interest of protecting the country,\u201d Bob Woodward says about General Milley. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwdbKlAhNC\">pic.twitter.com\/SwdbKlAhNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1440266493770420232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think at the center of all of this we should say the reporting we did shows that everything Milley did was to protect the country,\u201d he told MSNBC\u2019s Lawrence O\u2019Donnell. \u201cThe idea that he committed treason is totally unsupported by \u2014 I mean, there is just nothing in our reporting.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/mark-milley-phone-calls-china-within-scope-duties-responsibilities\/\">(RELATED: Gen. Milley Says Allegedly Secret Phone Calls With China Were \u2018Perfectly Within\u2019 His \u2018Duties And Responsibilities\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd when he says to General Li, head of the Chinese military, if we are going to attack you, I will call you \u2026 he\u2019s saying not that he\u2019s going to tip him off, but the tensions will build up. This is the way it always happened in history,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Milley has faced sharp criticism since his alleged actions were first reported last week. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/mark-milley-warn-china-trump-phone-call-military-strike\/\">ripped<\/a> the general as a \u201cdumbass\u201d and said the alleged calls to China would constitute \u201ctreason\u201d if true. But liberals have <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/14\/joy-reid-general-mark-milley-heroic-patriot\/\">praised him<\/a> as a \u201cpatriot\u201d for purportedly stopping Trump from taking military action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur reporting, zero evidence, absolutely zero evidence of some sort of treason or the idea of doing something not in the interest of protecting the country,\u201d Woodward said in response to the criticism of Milley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Woodward claimed during a Monday night appearance on MSNBC that Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley\u2019s calls to his Chinese counterpart in the final months of the Trump administration, which &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-798415","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\/798415","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798415\/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=798415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}