| In which Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft waxes hysterical about the new book by Bob Woodward and Bob Costa that lays out in somewhat more detail than was originally reported at the time how General Mark Milley and his team viewed themselves as a Praetorian Guard acting behind the back of President Trump — hiding the nuclear codes and assuring Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi as well as Chinese officials that Trump would be prevented from waging a surprise attack — then defied incoming President Biden by refusing to organize the ordered withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
According to the book “Peril” written by Bob Woodward, General Mark Milley, the Joint Chiefs chairman, told China in a secret phone call that he would give advance warning if the US was ever going to attack.
“In a pair of secret phone calls (Oct. 20 and Jan. 8), Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the PLA, that the U.S. would not strike, according to the new book written by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political editor Robert Costa.
On January 8, 2021, the same day Milley reportedly spoke to China in a secret phone call, CNN ran a story claiming Pelosi had gotten assurances from Milley there are safeguards in place in the event President Trump wants to launch a nuclear weapon.
According to Fox News, 15 people were present when Milley called China on teleconference in October 2020, which was coordinated with then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s office (Trump eventually fired Esper).
Milley released a statement through a spokesman that confirmed the reporting in the book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that stated Milley had two conversations with his counterpart in the Chinese military that undermined President Trump.
Christopher Miller, Trump’s Acting Secretary of Defense from the 2020 election through Inauguration Day, called Milley’s phone calls an “unprecedented act of insubordination” in a statement to Fox News.
On Monday Robert Costa reported that Milley told Speaker Pelosi that he agreed that Trump was crazy and he reassured the Speaker that the nuclear codes were safe.
It was the final coup against Trump involving the DOJ, FBI, US Military, Pelosi and Democrats.
Just months later General Mark Milley surrendered to the Taliban and armed the terrorist group with $80 billion in US weapons and supplies.