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2023-01-03 Government Corruption
Yes, Virginia, General Mark Milley Committed Treason
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.
[GatewayPundit] Gen. Mark Milley Hid Nuke Codes from Trump – Held Secret Calls with Chinese Defense Officials – Then Surrendered to Taliban and Armed Them with $80 Billion in US Weapons

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.
Posted by Woodrow 2023-01-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 So when will he be arrested and charged?

OH! that's right, he must be a good little LSD / Pelosi puppet General.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-01-03 07:18||   2023-01-03 07:18|| Front Page Top

#2 ....told China in a secret phone call that he would give advance warning if the US was ever going to attack.

That alone should be grounds for treason, or at a minimum, relief and discharge.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-01-03 07:24||   2023-01-03 07:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Once Milley established that precedent, next step is an off the reservation general making a false warning to trigger a first strike by China.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-03 07:27||   2023-01-03 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Technical question - if a serving member of the military commits treason, is he/she/xir shot or hanged?
Posted by Mercutio 2023-01-03 10:24||   2023-01-03 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Drowned in rotten fruit salad
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-01-03 10:33||   2023-01-03 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 He was is and always will be one of those generals that could care less about right and wrong, care even less about the constitution, the troops and the people he swore to defend, only caring about himself and his personal agenda. A narcissist and sociopath.
Posted by 49 Pan 2023-01-03 12:28||   2023-01-03 12:28|| Front Page Top

#7 My guess is he was not acting on his own but taking orders from the Politburo and they will make sure he is not prosecuted.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-01-03 12:47||   2023-01-03 12:47|| Front Page Top

#8 The Hofts are often over the top but they are not wrong about this. Nothing will happen though. Precedent is scary, and one more reason for the Second Amendment.
Posted by Glenmore  2023-01-03 14:29||   2023-01-03 14:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Technical question - if a serving member of the military commits treason, is he/she/xir shot or hanged?

Apparently they get promoted to football mascot.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-01-03 15:25||   2023-01-03 15:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Technical question - if a serving member of the military commits treason, is he/she/xir shot or hanged?

Retirement in London.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-01-03 17:36||   2023-01-03 17:36|| Front Page Top

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