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New book details Trump’s efforts to instigate war with China as part of January 6 coup attempt
New revelations emerged Tuesday of the extraordinary steps taken by Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to counter efforts by then-President Donald Trump to instigate a war with China—and possibly launch a nuclear strike—as part of his efforts to overturn his election defeat and remain in power.
The New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN and other news sources published accounts of the conflict within the state apparatus based on a new book by Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Peril, which is slated to be released to the public next Tuesday.
According to the accounts, US intelligence concluded in the final months of Trump’s term that the Chinese military considered an American military strike to be likely under conditions where Trump was refusing to commit to a peaceful transfer of power. Milley, the authors of Peril write, “felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump and believed it was his job as the senior military officer to think the unthinkable and take any and all necessary precautions.”
On October 30, just days before Election Day, Milley told his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, commander of the People’s Liberation Army, that the US would not carry out a military strike against China. “General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” Milley told him. “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.”
But Trump’s refusal to concede defeat after the election intensified both fears in China and the internal crisis and conflict within the American state. CIA Director Gina Haspel warned Milley, according to the new book, “We are on our way to a right-wing coup.”
On January 8, two days after the fascist storming of the US Capitol aimed at blocking congressional certification of the electoral vote, Milley spoke again in secret with his Chinese counterpart to reassure him that the United States was stable and would not attack China. He even told Gen. Li Zuocheng that should he prove unable to prevent Trump from launching a military strike, he would give the PLA commander advance notice of the impending attack.
That same day, Milley, who, as the president’s chief military adviser, is not formally in the military chain of command, called an extraordinary and secret meeting in his Pentagon office of the senior officials in charge of the National Military Command Center and instructed them to take no orders from anyone—including the president—unless he was involved. The meeting, according to the Times, was intended to “remind” the commanders “that the procedures for launching a nuclear weapon called for his involvement in such a decision.”
CNN cites the following account of the meeting:
“No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told the officers, according to the book. He then went around the room, looked each officer in the eye, and asked them to verbally confirm they understood.
“Got it?” Milley asked, according to the book. “Yes, sir.”
‘Milley considered it an oath,’ the authors write.
Books released earlier this year have documented Milley’s references to the run-up to the January 6 coup as Trump’s “Reichstag moment.” The new book provides further information, including on the central role of Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon.
According to Woodward and Costa, it was Bannon who urged Trump to return to the White House to prepare for the events of January 6. “You’ve got to return to Washington and make a dramatic return today,” Bannon argued in a quote cited by CNN, calling January 6 “the moment of reckoning.” He added, “We’re going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him.”
These new revelations shatter all attempts to downplay the significance of the events of January 6. That Trump and his fellow coup plotters inside and outside the Republican Party have never been charged with a crime, let alone arrested, is a testament to the cowardice and duplicity of the Democratic Party. Virtually none of the revelations in the new book had been revealed in the nine months since January 6 and the numerous hearings held by Democratic-controlled committees.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, whose members were chosen by Pelosi, has held only one public hearing, at which no government officials were called to testify. Its lethargy is palpable. If one goes onto its website and clicks on “committee activity,” one sees “There are no upcoming hearings.”
Rather than alert the public as the coup was unfolding, the Democrats did everything they could to keep the crisis contained to the state and military apparatus. That opposition to Trump’s coup plotting was to be left entirely in the hands of the military, “the guys with the guns,” as Milley put it, testifies to the extreme crisis of American democracy.
Since Biden’s inauguration, the theme of the Democratic Party has been “unity” and “bipartisanship.” This has created the conditions for Trump to strengthen his position as the de facto head of the Republican Party as he prepares to run for president again in 2024.
Over the weekend, Trump used the 9/11 anniversary to deliver fascist rants to police and firefighters in Manhattan. Trump copied Hitler’s “stab-in-the-back” narrative and applied it to the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. He combined it with the lie of the “stolen election,” which has been embraced by virtually the entire Republican Party, and called for the removal of all restraints on police violence and for stepped-up attacks on opposition to austerity, war, inequality and the homicidal back-to-school and back-to-work policies of the entire ruling class.
Railing about “Antifa running down the streets and burning down your buildings,” Trump in effect called for a police state.
Trump supporters, militia groups and former Trump aides have called a rally in Washington D.C. for September 18 titled “Justice for J6,” calling for the release of the “political prisoners” imprisoned for their roles in the storming of the Capitol. The US Capitol Police announced Monday it is planning for possible armed violence and will re-erect a seven-foot security fence around the Capitol grounds.
Meanwhile, the Democrats continue to plead for “unity” with Trump’s Republican co-conspirators. This was on full display at the official ceremonies to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11 held on Saturday.
George W. Bush, who presided over the launching of the “war on terror” and the complete break with both US and international law it entailed, was given pride of place to deliver the main address at the commemoration in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. He was flanked by his vice president, Dick Cheney, and the current vice president, Kamala Harris, who hailed the response to 9/11 as proof “that unity is possible in America.” The same theme was invoked by Biden, who declared in a taped video statement, “Unity is our greatest strength.”
By “unity,” the Democrats and sections of the Republican Party mean the unity of the ruling class as it confronts the massive growth of social opposition produced by the pandemic, which has claimed the lives of more than 670,000 people in the US alone. It means the perpetuation and acceleration of the underlying tendencies that produced Trump and raise before workers in the US and internationally the threat of fascism and dictatorship.
Rand Paul Calls for Milley to Be Court-Martialed, Removed if He Went Around Trump, Colluded with China
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday became the second senator to call for the removal of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley if allegations that he tried to undermine then-President Donald Trump and promised to alert China in the case of a U.S. attack are true.
Paul tweeted:
I don’t care what you think of President Trump, the Chairman of the JCOS working to subvert the military chain of command and collude with China is exactly what we do not accept from military leaders in our country. He should be court martialed if true.
Couple that with his inept handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan, and it is clear General Milley is no longer fit to serve as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and should be removed immediately.
Earlier in the day, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) called for President Joe Biden to fire Milley in a letter charging that he undermined the former Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces by planning to commit treason. Rubio wrote:
I write with grave concern regarding recent reporting that General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked to actively undermine the sitting Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces and contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). These actions by General Milley demonstrate a clear lack of sound judgement, and I urge you to dismiss him immediately.
According to the upcoming book Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley worried then-President Trump would “go rogue” and orchestrated two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general promising to inform him if an attack on the Communist country were to commence.
“You and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,” Milley reportedly told his Chinese counterpart.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks as Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman, Army Gen. Mark Milley looks on after getting a briefing from senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room at the White House on October 7, 2019, in Washington, DC. Trump spoke about the pull-out of U.S troops in northeastern Syria and the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
In his letter, Rubio stressed that Milley interfered with America’s civilian-controlled military, which could possibly “lead to war”:
I do not need to tell of you the dangers posed by senior military officers leaking classified information on U.S. military operations, but I will underscore that such subversion undermines the President’s ability to negotiate and leverage one of this nation’s instruments of national power in his interactions with foreign nations.
Even more egregiously, reports indicate that General Milley interfered with the procedures by which the civilian commander-in-chief can order a nuclear strike. He purportedly instructed officials not to take orders without his involvement and forced them to take an oath to that effect. A senior military officer interfering with that civilian-controlled process is simply unacceptable at best, and at worst, would cause ambiguity which could lead to war.
General Milley has attempted to rationalize his reckless behavior by arguing that what he perceived as the military’s judgement was more stable than its civilian commander. 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.
In addition, several Republican and Libertarian lawmakers also called for Milley’s firing.
Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) tweeted:
If the reports about General Milley are true, he needs to be relieved of his duties. There’s no justification for secret communication with our greatest adversary. There’s no justification for treason.
@POTUS: If this is verified, you need to immediately dismiss General Milley.
Rep. Justin Amash (L-MI) tweeted that Milley betrayed his oath:
We must preserve civilian control of the Armed Forces, through the president, as our Constitution requires. Any official who subverts this system should not be in office. Anyone concerned about an unfit president can seek a constitutional remedy; anything else betrays their oath
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO) tweeted:
We must preserve civilian control of the Armed Forces, through the president, as our Constitution requires. Any official who subverts this system should not be in office. Anyone concerned about an unfit president can seek a constitutional remedy; anything else betrays their oath.
Breitbart News’s Paul Bois contributed to this report.
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Report: Mark Milley Told Military Officials Not to Take Orders After Capitol Riot
Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley single-handedly took top-secret action to preempt then-President Donald Trump from ordering a military strike or launching nuclear weapons, according to a new book.
According to Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Milley was worried that after the January 6 Capitol breach, Trump could “go rogue” and called a secret meeting on January 8 with senior military leaders.
During that meeting, Milley instructed senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center to not take orders from anyone unless he was involved, according to a write-up of the book by CNN.
“No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told them.
“Milley considered it an oath,” Woodward and Costa wrote.
The book also revealed that Milley had two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general to reassure him that the U.S. would not attack, even promising to give him a heads up if it did.
According to a write-up by the Washington Post, Milley — four days before the 2020 presidential election — assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, that the U.S. would not strike.
US Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley (L) introduces members of his staff to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Li Zuocheng (R) during a welcome ceremony at the Bayi Building in Beijing on August 16, 2016. MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP via Getty Images
The book said Milley’s first call was prompted by intelligence that suggested the Chinese believed the U.S. was preparing to attack.
“General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay,” Milley allegedly said. “We are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you.”
Milley even pledged to alert Li in the event of a U.S. attack.
“General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise,” he said, according to the book.
In his second call on January 8, 2021, Milley promised Li, “We are 100 percent steady. Everything’s fine. But democracy can be sloppy sometimes.” Milley did not tell Trump about the call, according to the book.
Also according to the book, Milley told House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “I agree with you on everything,” after the speaker called him and pressed him to secure the country’s nuclear weapons and called Trump “crazy.”
Woodward and Costa write that after the call with Pelosi, Milley “decided he had to act” and told the military service chiefs and then-CIA director to watch everything “all the time.”
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 10: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a hearing with the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on June 10, 2021 in Washington, DC. The hearing was held to discuss the Defense Department’s Fiscal Year 2022 budget proposal. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
They wrote, “Milley was overseeing the mobilization of America’s national security state without the knowledge of the American people or the rest of the world.”
“Some might contend that Milley had overstepped his authority and taken extraordinary power for himself,” they wrote, but said the chairman believed his actions were “a good faith precaution to ensure there was no historic rupture in the international order, no accidental war with China or others, and no use of nuclear weapons” as Milley “felt no absolute certainty that the military could control or trust Trump.”
Milley also allegedly discovered Trump had signed a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, and considered it an “end run” around the president’s military advisers.
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Report: Milley Promised To Warn Chinese About US Military Operations
'If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time'
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley secretly promised to warn the head of the Chinese People's Liberation Army before the United States would carry out any "attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you."
The shocking anecdote is described in a new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, which discloses the extent to which the Pentagon worked to subvert former president Donald Trump's foreign policy goals. Trump's rhetoric toward China, according to a Washington Post summary, increasingly alarmed Milley, who suspected the president might order a surprise strike.
"I want to assure you that the American government is stable and everything is going to be okay," Milley reportedly told Gen. Li Zoucheng, on Oct. 30, 2020. Milley went on to highlight the close relationship between the two men, saying, "If we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not going to be a surprise."
Milley never informed the president of the conversation. He called Li again on Jan. 8, 2021 to "address Chinese fears about the events of Jan. 6," according to the Washington Post.
"We are 100 percent steady. Everything’s fine," Milley told Li. "But democracy can be sloppy sometimes."
Milley's fears—which later proved erroneous as there is no evidence Trump attempted to, or even considered a strike against China during his last days in office—were in part prompted by the then-president signing an order to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Jan. 15, 2021. That order never went through, but, according to a summary of the book by CNN, "Milley could not forget that Trump had done an end run around his top military advisers."
A spokeswoman for the Joint Chiefs declined to comment.
Out of fear that China could "lash out" against the United States, Milley sought to unilaterally defuse tensions between the two countries on Jan. 8, 2021. He called the chief Navy official in charge of America's Indo-Pacific Command and told him to postpone scheduled military exercises. That same day, Milley spoke with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), who grew concerned Trump might order a nuclear strike.
"What I'm saying to you is that if they couldn't even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, who even knows what else he may do? And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?" Pelosi said, adding that Trump has "been crazy for a long time."
Milley responded by saying, "I agree with you on everything," and assured her that the military would not authorize any military strikes, which, according to Costa and Woodward, meant he "was overseeing the mobilization of America's national security state without the knowledge of the American people or the rest of the world."
According to the book's authors, Milley considered President Joe Biden's "50 years" of experience in politics as reason to "always give him decision space," even as the White House agreed with the previous administration on a full withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan.
"Here’s a couple of rules of the road here that we’re going to follow," Milley said in private remarks to the Joint Chiefs. "One is you never, ever, ever box in a president of the United States."
Milley's comments during a June congressional hearing, in which he defended the teaching of critical race theory in the armed services, sparked outrage and accusations that he was overseeing a politicization of the military.
"I want to understand white rage, and I'm white," Milley said in his testimony. "I have read Mao Zedong, I've read Karl Marx, I've read Lenin—that doesn't make me a communist. So what is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?"
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