Top US general called his Chinese counterpart twice secretly over concerns President Donald Trump could wage war with China because his Potential Electoral Loss and Aftermath, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
US General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, calls on General Li Xuocheng of the People’s Liberation
Army on October 30, 2020 – four days before the election – and again on January 8, two days later Trump supporters take deadly lead
Riot in the US Capitol, the newspaper reported.
The report said that in the call, Milley sought to reassure Lee that the United States was stable and would not attack and that if an attack did occur, he would alert his counterpart ahead of time.
The report was based on a new book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, “Peril”, which they said relied on interviews with 200 sources and is due for release next week.
Trump cast doubts on the story in a statement, calling it “fabricated”. He said that if the story is true, then he should be tried for treason. “For the record, I never even thought of attacking China,” Trump said.
Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, holds a news briefing at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, USA. (file photo via Reuters)
Milley’s office declined to comment.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio called on President Joe Biden, a Democrat, to immediately sack Mille.
“I don’t need to tell you what the danger is with senior military officials leaking classified information on U.S. military operations, but I will underline that this kind of sabotage is a threat to the president’s negotiating and the national power of this nation.” One of the tools undermines the ability to take advantage of foreign nations,” Rubio said in a letter to Biden.
When asked about the Washington Post report, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment and sent questions to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Defense Department.
Trump, a Republican, Milley named to top military rank in 2018 But after he lost the presidential election to Biden in November 2020, criticism of him, as well as other appointees and former employees, began.
The Washington Post reported that Millie was prompted to approach Beijing for a second time because of a January 8 call with US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who asked the general to stop the “unstable president”. What security measures have been taken? launching a nuclear attack.
“He’s crazy. You know he’s crazy,” Pelosi told Miley, the newspaper reported, citing a transcript of the call.
According to the quoted call transcript, the general replied, “I agree with you on everything.”
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