Trump, Republicans Call Gen. Mark Milley ‘Treasonous’ for Calls with China
September 15th, 2021Via: USA Today:
Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is facing outrage from lawmakers after a report that he assured China that the United States would not launch a nuclear strike in the last days of the Trump administration.
The bombshell revelations were reported in “Peril,” the latest book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodard. Woodward writes that in a pair of calls in 2020, Milley twice assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army.
Former President Donald Trump and his allies have called the move treasonous, accusing Milley of subverting the military chain-of-command calling for consequences.
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., accused Milley of “treasonous” and “reckless behavior” and urged President Joe Biden to fire the top general.
“It is a dangerous precedent that could be asserted at any point in the future by General Milley or others. It threatens to tear apart our nation’s longstanding principle of civilian control of the military,” Rubio wrote in an open letter to Biden.
