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U.S. General Mark Milley has been under fire following serious allegations of treason.
A report in The Washington Post details how General Mark Milley engaged in a military coup by thwarting President Trump and secretly conspiring with senior military leadership and foreign actors to usurp and undermine the President’s power.
Milley was reportedly “so fearful” that the president’s actions “might spark a war with China” that he secretly called his Chinese counterpart before the election and after Jan. 6 in a bid to avert armed conflict. Milley reassured China that he would “give the communist government a heads up should an attack be ordered by the then commander-in-chief,” Townhall reported.
Despite this astonishingly improper action carried out without the knowledge of President Donald Trump, Milley said he’s not resigning.
Milley recently testified before the House Armed Services Committee following Biden’s botched withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Biden reportedly rejected the assessment of top U.S. generals who recommended leaving 2,5000 American troops in Afghanistan.
This devastating decision by Biden led to the deaths of 13 U.S. troops and abandoned hundreds of American citizens in the region.
At the hearing, Milley was also asked why he has not resigned after Biden ignored his recommendations that led to the death of troops and the abandonment of American citizens abroad.
Milley responded, “Senator, as a senior military officer, resigning is a really serious thing – it’s a political act – if I’m resigning in protest.”
“My job is to provide advice – my statutory responsibility is to provide legal advice or best military advice to the president, and that’s my legal requirement. That’s what the law is.”
“[The President] doesn’t have to agree with the advice,” Milley said. “[The President] doesn’t have to make those decisions just because we’re generals.”
“It would be an incredible act of political defiance for a commissioned officer to just resign because my advice is not taken,” Milley said. “This country doesn’t want generals figuring out what orders we are going to accept and do or not. That’s not our job.”
“My dad didn’t get a choice to resign at Iwo Jima, and those kids at Abbey Gate don’t get a choice to resign. I’m not going to turn my back – they can’t resign,” Milley said. “So I’m not going to resign. There’s no way.”
“If the orders are illegal, we’re in a different place,” Milley said. “But if the orders are legal from civilian authority, I intend to carry them out.”
Regarding Milley’s alleged act of treason, he took a phone call directly from Nancy Pelosi on January 9th.
Just days after the Jan. 6th riot, it was widely reported that Pelosi called Gen. Milley seeking to have the Pentagon leadership essentially remove Trump from his authorities as the commander in chief.
It would have been unconstitutional for Milley to defy legal orders from the commander in chief despite Pelosi’s encouragement to remove Trump. Trump was still the commander in chief and the military was bound to follow his lawful orders.
Military officials can refuse to carry out orders they view as illegal, but they cannot remove the president from the chain of command. This would amount to a military coup, the officials said at the time.
Despite these reports, Joe Biden said he has “great confidence” in Milley, according to Fox News.
Biden’s one-sentence remark came while responding to reporters’ questions. White House press secretary Jen Psaki also defended Milley.
Psaki said that Biden “has worked side by side with Chairman Milley for almost eight months as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.”
“His experience with him has been that he is a patriot,” Psaki added.
“He is somebody who is is has fidelity to the Constitution, and he has confidence in his leadership,” she added. “I can’t speak to anonymous, unconfirmed reports about prior conversations during the last administration.”
“The president has complete confidence in his leadership, his patriotism and his fidelity to our Constitution,” Psaki concluded.
Fox News’ Tucker Carlson absolutely wrecked Joe Biden and Gen. Mark Milley for “selling the country out to the communist Chinese,” Becker News added.
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