Former President Donald Trump published a comment on Telegram last night, on media reports of Gen. Mark Milley’s actions to take control of the military away from the President, as recounted by the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their book Peril. Trump wrote that, if that account 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 went on to say that “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….” Most importantly, Trump stressed: “For the record, I never even thought of attacking China—and China knows that. 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.”
