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When Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley goes before Congress on Sept. 28, he may face some of the most hostile questioning of any modern four-star general.
Driving the news: Newly released excerpts from "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — detailing secret moves by the nation's highest-ranking military officers to manage national security risks that he perceived Donald Trump posed in the final days of his presidency — are driving questions about whether Milley went too far.
The big picture: Republicans were already irate with Milley for playing a starring role in a string of recent Trump books.
Driving the news: Newly released excerpts from "Peril" by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa — detailing secret moves by the nation's highest-ranking military officers to manage national security risks that he perceived Donald Trump posed in the final days of his presidency — are driving questions about whether Milley went too far.
The big picture: Republicans were already irate with Milley for playing a starring role in a string of recent Trump books.
Inside the crisis surrounding Gen. Mark Milley
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This seems to try to summarize everything that's going on. Although interesting is that there's another book about Trump called "I Alone Can Fix It" that did not interview Milley and is all anonymous sources (140 the authors said) who were given anonymity to speak candidly and "reconstruct events and dialogue." That book does not appear to mention anything about him calling his Chinese counterpart but states that he was afraid of what Trump might do leading up to the election with the firing of Esper, Barr resigning and then after Jan 6. This book alleges that there was a plan among Milley and other Joint Chiefs to "resign one-by-one rather than carry out orders from Trump that they considered to be illegal, dangerous or ill-advised."
It is interesting that this book raised no concern on this forum or really anywhere. Hm.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt/index.html
It is interesting that this book raised no concern on this forum or really anywhere. Hm.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/14/politics/donald-trump-election-coup-new-book-excerpt/index.html
'They're not going to f**king succeed': Top generals feared Trump would attempt a coup after...
The top US military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley, was so shaken that then-President Donald Trump and his allies might attempt a coup or take other dangerous or illegal measures after the November election that Milley and other top officials informally planned for different ways to stop Trump, according to excerpts of an upcoming book obtained by CNN.
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Excerpts are designed to create a stir and talk about the book in an attempt to jack up the sales of the book. Saw a person on TV that read the full book and said the calls are nothing unusual and several Generals who said this type of communication is what is expected of a General.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
Even FoxNews reported talking to 15 sources who were in the room when both calls were made and said nothing was "secret," both calls were approved by Esper and Miller and that they were on VTC - and that it was about China had got some crappy intel that the US was planning to attack them during exercises in the SCS which Milley said no that's not true.
But all sides of the media just took it and ran like usual.
But all sides of the media just took it and ran like usual.
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