{"id":823556,"date":"2021-09-28T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=823556"},"modified":"2021-09-28T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T15:13:35","slug":"my-loyalty-is-absolute-milley-slaps-at-media-defends-chinese-phone-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/my-loyalty-is-absolute-milley-slaps-at-media-defends-chinese-phone-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Loyalty Is Absolute\u2019: Milley Slaps At Media, Defends Chinese Phone Calls"},"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\">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%2Fmy-loyalty-is-absolute-milley-slaps-at-media-defends-chinese-phone-calls%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=823556&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>Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley defended calls to his Chinese counterpart during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/flashback-watch-chairman-mark-milley-lie-five-times-in-one-minute-about-the-infamous-isis-k-strike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milley<\/a> objected to media portrayals of him either betraying his loyalty to the United States or stepping outside the prescribed chain of command because he believed former President Donald Trump might pose a risk. <strong><a class=\"text-black\" 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 Responsibilites\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/oversight-republicans-transcripts-call-mark-milley-li-zuocheng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milley<\/a> gave his opening statement on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and as his time ran out, he asked for a brief extension in order to address some of the things he felt the media had gotten wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Chairman, I have served this nation for 42 years. I spent years in combat, and I buried a lot of my troops who died while defending this country,\u201d Milley said once he was given the go ahead. \u201cMy loyalty to this nation, its people, and the Constitution hasn\u2019t changed and will never change as long as I have a breath to give. My loyalty is absolute and I will not turn my back on the fallen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/jesse-watters-milley-china-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milley<\/a> went on to defend calls he made to his Chinese counter part, saying that intelligence suggested the Chinese were concerned about possible military action and he made a decision to communicate directly with the Chinese to reassure them there was no imminent threat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know, I am certain, that President Trump did not intend to attack the Chinese. And it is my directed responsibility and it was my directed responsibility by the secretary to convey that intent to the Chinese,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/15\/pentagon-spokesman-john-kirby-mark-milley-report-concern\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milley<\/a> explained. \u201cMy task at that time was to de-escalate. My message again was consistent, stay calm, steady, and de-escalate. \u2018We are not going to attack you.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milley then addressed a conversation with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, during which he said she expressed concerns about Trump\u2019s mental state and his ability to launch nuclear strikes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was concerned and made very \u2013 made various personal references characterizing the president. I explained to her that the president is the sole nuclear launch authority and he doesn\u2019t launch them alone. And that I am not qualified to determine the mental health of the president of the United States,\u201d Milley said. \u201cThere are processes, protocols and procedures in place and I repeatedly assured her that there was no chance of an illegal, unauthorized or accidental launch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milley went on to say that he had only ever given advice in the capacity that he was required to as a part of his role as a military adviser, and said that he had never and would never step outside the chain of command.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy oath is to support the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic and I will never turn my back on that oath,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley defended calls to his Chinese counterpart during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.Milley objected to media portrayals of him either &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-823556","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\/823556","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=823556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823556\/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=823556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}