General Mark Milley committed “treason” for contacting Chinese military officials during the previous Trump administration according to President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump said “if it is actually true, which is hard to believe that he would have called China and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or in advance of an attack… that’s treason”.
Gen Milley, who is the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made secret plans to prevent Mr Trump from ever misusing nuclear weapons, according to claims made in Peril, a new book by Washington Post editor Bob Woodward and reporter Robert Costa.
The general made two calls to his Chinese counterpart General Li Zuocheng over concerns that Mr Trump could spark a war with China, according to the book.
He made the first call on 30 October 2020, four days before the presidential elections and the second on 8 January, two days after Trump supporters demonstrated outside Capitol Hill.
The book suggested Gen Milley was ‘disturbed’ by the January the 6th incident and that he “was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election, with Trump now all but manic, screaming at officials and constructing his own alternate reality about endless election conspiracies”.
He assured his Chinese counterpart that the US was not going to attack China and if there were to be an attack, he would alert Gen Li ahead of time, the book says.
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