From: weberm@polaris.net

Former President Donald Trump tore into General Mark Milley, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, over a bombshell report that alleged that
Milley contacted his Chinese counterpart to inform him that if Trump
ordered an attack, he would warn China in advance.

“General Li, I want to assure you that the American government is
stable and everything is going to be okay. We are not going to attack
or conduct any kinetic operations against you,” Milley allegedly said.
“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.”

Trump responded to the news in a statement, writing, “If the story of
‘Dumba**’ General Mark Milley, the same failed leader who engineered
the worst withdrawal from a country, Afghanistan, in U.S. history,
leaving behind many dead and wounded soldiers, many American citizens,
and $85 Billion worth of the newest and most sophisticated Military
equipment in the world, and our Country’s reputation, is true, then I
assume he would be tried for TREASON in that he would have been dealing
with his Chinese counterpart behind the President’s back and telling
China that he would be giving them notification ‘of an attack.’”

“Can’t do that!” Trump continued. “The good news is that the story is
Fake News concocted by a weak and ineffective General together with two
authors who I refused to give an interview to because they write
fiction, not fact. Actions should be taken immediately against Milley,
and better generals in our Military, of which we have many, should get
involved so that another Afghanistan disaster never happens again.
Remember, I was the one who took out 100% of the ISIS Caliphate. Milley
said it couldn’t be done!”

“For the record, I never even thought of attacking China—and China
knows that,” Trump concluded. “The people that fabricated the story are
sick and demented, and the people who print it are just as bad. In
fact, I’m the only President in decades who didn’t get the U.S. into a
war—a well known fact that is seldom reported.”

A former senior U.S. official slammed Milley in a statement to The
Washington Post, saying, “It was dangerous for Mark Milley to be doing freelance diplomacy on China without involving any of the other senior officials dealing with China at the time.”

“Milley was making these phone calls at a time when the U.S. government
was in the middle of very complicated discussions with and actions
against the PRC. For him to take this sort of action without any
interagency coordination is astonishing,” the official continued. “The
risk is [Milley] could have caused the Chinese to miscalculate and take
some sort of diplomatic, economic or military action with far ranging consequences, because he was giving the wrong signal, having no
understanding of the context in which he was making the call.”

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