
Mark Milley Fears He Will Face a Court-Martial When Trump Enters White House
Retired Gen. Mark Milley is afraid of retribution.
The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a four-star Army general made no bones about his feelings about former President Donald Trump in the lead-up to the presidential election.
And he was equally clear about his own fears.
In a book “War” by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, Milley told Woodward he could be recalled to duty in the event of a Trump win to face a court-martial “for disloyalty,” the Post reported in October.
Now, what could make him think that?
Maybe because he told Woodward in a previous book, according to a Post report from September 2021, that he’d engaged in secret talks with his counterpart in the Chinese military — People’s Liberation Army Gen. Li Zuocheng — both immediately before and after the 2020 election.
“In the book’s account, Milley went so far as to pledge he would alert his counterpart in the event of a U.S. attack, stressing the rapport they’d established through a backchannel,” the Post reported.
Trump’s reaction was explosive.
In a statement, he called Milley a “dumba**” and said if the story 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.’”
Trump reacts by calling Gen. Milley a “dumbass,” suggests action “be taken immediately” against the chairman of the joint chiefs and denies ever planning to attack #China. pic.twitter.com/UwO87IYBvJ
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) September 15, 2021