Demands For Milley’s Firing Let White House Put The Focus Back On Trump’s Insurrection

Milley,” President Joe Biden said during a White House photo opportunity Wednesday.

Press secretary Jen Psaki went further during her daily White House briefing, saying that Biden believes Milley, a four-star Army general, is committed to the Constitution and that it was important to remember what Trump was trying to do in his final two months in office.

A soon-to-be released book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa states that Milley twice spoke with his Chinese counterpart to reassure him that the United States was not seeking to start a war with China in the closing weeks of Trump’s term, and then coordinated with other military officials to make sure Trump, who at the time was trying to overturn his election loss, could not undertake illegal military actions, particularly the use of nuclear weapons.

Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who like Paul ran for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, wrote in a letter to Biden that Milley “worked to actively undermine the sitting commander in chief of the United States armed forces and contemplated a treasonous leak of classified information to the Chinese Communist Party in advance of a potential armed conflict with the People’s Republic of China.”.

(One senior Trump White House official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that if Trump had insisted on any of those things, top aides would have resigned en masse.)?

A few weeks later, only 10 of more than 200 Republican House members and seven of 50 GOP senators voted against Trump during his impeachment for inciting the insurrection attempt