An excerpt of a book Peril written by far-left author and reporter Bob Woodward and Robert Costa described a wild if not far-fetched incident that happened in the final days of the Trump administration. about the final days.
In summary, the authors made the following wild claims.
1) Former Trump campaign chairman and White House adviser Steven Bannon called the 45th president on December 30 and urged him to return to Washington D.C. “You’ve got to call [Vice President]Pence off the fucking ski slopes and get him back here today," he told Trump. This is a crisis....People are going to go, ‘What the fuck is going on here?’ ” Bannon believed. “We’re going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him.”
2) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley was supposedly so worried about Trump going "rogue" that after making a partisan phone calls to Speaker Pelosi, he himself took the unprecedented treasonous step of telling military officers to "not take orders from anyone, unless he was involved." He effectively usurped the authority of the Commander-In-Chief Donald Trump.
3) Milley was also so incredulously worried that Trump could start a war with China, that he made a treasonous call to his chinese counterpart.
Far-left media outlet Washington Post desribe the call thusly:
“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.”
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. “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.”
While far-left politicians and media talking heads were incredulously praising Milley's treasonous actions as supposedly trying to "save democracy," many critics rightly called the General's actions alarmingly treasonous. Republican senators Rand Paul(R-Kentucky) and Marco Rubio(R-Florida) called for Milley to resign or be fired.
Reacting to the story Trump told Newsmax TV that if the reports are true, Milley is guilty of treason.
“It’s totally ridiculous. I never thought of it,” he said. “For him to say that I would even think about attacking China, I think he’s trying to just get out of his incompetent withdrawal out of Afghanistan.”
Trump also went after Woodward as “highly overrated” and “a sleaze.”
“I did not think of ever attacking China,” he added.
In a later statement, he said in part
"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."
WATCH Trump's reaction to Bob Woodward's book on Newsmax.