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Pompeo: Gen Milley Did NOT Inform Me of His Phone Call to His Chinese Counterpart Despite What He Said in Wednesday’s Hearing

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Pompeo and Milley

FoxNews.com reports that

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has denied that Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, informed him that he had told his Chinese counterpart that he would alert the Chinese of any impending attack in the last days of the Trump administration, saying that if Milley had, it would have been ”a real problem.”

Pompeo’s comments to ”The Megyn Kelly Show” on SiriusXM satellite radio on Wednesday directly rebutted Milley’s testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, in which he defended reports in the book ”Peril” about the final days of the Trump administration.

The book claimed that Milley called his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng, on Jan. 8 and — attempting to ease that country’s concern about a possible military strike — told him he would notify him of any impending action.

Milley testified that Pompeo and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows were aware of the phone call.

”If he in fact said, ‘We will not attack you until we warn you,’ that’s just nutty, right?” Pompeo said. ”That’s just … it’s certain that he did not tell Chief Meadows or I that because — I don’t know if he told us, he thinks he told us, on the same phone call, but I can promise you that Chief Meadows would have called me immediately and said, ‘Hey, we got a real problem here.’

”And if I had of heard it, I would’ve gone high and right. I’d be very surprised if that’s precisely how Gen. Milley told the Chinese that. I worked with Gen. Milley enough. But if he told [authors Bob] Woodward and [Robert] Costa that he said that, this is something he has to account for. That would be deeply inconsistent with his responsibilities.”

It appears that General Milley is frantically attempting to “cover his 6”.

Back on February 20, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned about the Chinese Infiltration of our Country which began under Obama.

Per their website, 1000plan.org, China initiated the Thousand Talents Plan at the end of 2008.

By 2017, China had recruited more than 7,000 professionals, per a bi-partisan Senate Sub-committee report titled “Threats to the U.S. Research Enterprise: China’s Talent Recruitment Plans” published in November of last year.

Okay. Why was this allowed in the first place?

And, why didn’t the Federal Government put a stop to it?

Who was the President in January of 2009?

Oh, wait…Now, I remember (with a little help from The Washington Post)

Obama became the first U.S. president to visit China during his first year in office. But his administration was taken aback by how completely the Chinese controlled all aspects of that visit.

“He wasn’t allowed to say much at all,” said Orville Schell, a longtime China scholar who was in China during the visit. “The Chinese kept him from meeting certain people, from taking questions or even radio broadcasts. He didn’t know quite how to respond. He didn’t want to be impolite. It took the U.S. a while to understand that this was the direction China and the relationship was headed.”

Some have blamed Obama for adopting such an overly optimistic and open stance during those early years. For all his outreach, current and former top U.S. diplomats say, Obama got little in return, except the feeling of being burned by Beijing.

Well, gosh.

Milley said that his relationship with Li Zuocheng had been going on for 5 years at the time of the phone calls in question.

That meant that it started under President Barack Hussein Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden, when Milley was Chief of Staff of the Army, starting in August of 2015.

No wonder Biden said that he has complete faith in General Milley.

Are you paying attention, yet?

As we are witnessing with the wearing of masks, when it comes to the law and the Constitution, rules only apply to us “common” people.

Time and time again, Democrats have gotten away with things that you and I would have been put under the jail for.

The Anti-American Nightmare known as the Biden Presidency just keeps getting worse and worse with each passing day, doesn’t it?

I am afraid to ask “What’s Next?” because it will probably involve #DementiaJoe mistaking the launch button on the Nuclear Football for his intercom to ask the White House Kitchen Staff to bring him some ice cream.

But, I digress…

General Milley needs to resign.

He is arrogant, clueless, and incompetent.

And, that is a combination which will continue to hurt the safety and reputation of our country more than it will help it. 

Until He Comes,

KJ

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Trump Tells “Yuge” Georgia Rally…”Joe Biden is Already the Biggest Failure Ever to Occupy the Oval Office”…He’s Right…Again!

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Trump Rally Georgia

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Calling Georgia the “central battleground” to save “our beloved nation,” former President Donald Trump denounced the Biden administration’s first-year missteps.

“Our country is being turned into a migrant camp,” Trump told his Saturday night Save America Rally in Perry, Georgia, in a speech that aired live on Newsmax, forcefully declaring: “This is an invasion!”

“Other than that, how are things going?”

Trump told a large rally crowd “somebody’s really screwing up our country, destroying our country.”

“One thing is certain this would never, ever be happening if I were president, and we should have been your president,” Trump continued.

“Look what happened with Joe Biden as your president: Our country has gone to hell,” Trump said later as a “we love Trump” chant broke out for a minute. “Thank you, and I love you, too.”

Georgia, Trump began, is going to be a key battleground in 2022 and a “big victory” in 2024, teasing another run for the White House that he has said he cannot announce yet due to campaign finance laws.

“I’m thrilled to be back in this magnificent state with thousands of hard working god fearing freedom loving, American patriots,” Trump said. “And one year from now, Georgia is going to be a central battleground in our fight to rescue our beloved nation.

“With your help, we’re going to take back the House and send Nancy Pelosi back to San Francisco,” he added.

“And we’re going to take back our country from these lunatics.”

Trump, one day after Arizona revealed findings of a forensic audit, reminded his supporters, “you know, there never has been a concession.”

“You do know that, right?” Trump continued, saying the media has a double standard with Democrats and Trump. “You know when Stacey Abrams says, ‘I’m not going to concede,’ it’s O.K. No problem.

“I never conceded because I saw what was happening, and I can’t do it. I can’t do it because I have a commitment to you and I can’t do it.”

Trump decried the attempts to attack those seeking investigations into alleged election and voter fraud.

“Somebody said they’re looking at me for questioning the election,” Trump said. “That’ll be an interesting one: ‘Let’s go after Trump because he’s questioning the election.’ You know what, if I won or lost, all I want is a fair election. That’s all you want.”

Just talking about voter fraud will get you investigated, Trump lamented.

“The people that are questioning the votes aren’t interested in the people that committed the voter fraud, they’re only interested in me and others because I bring voter fraud to the forefront in order to save our nation from corrupt elections and to make sure that this never, ever happens again,” Trump said.

Trump continued to blast his former Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley for the Afghanistan exit that left 13 U.S. service members dead – which Trump honored with 13 empty first-row Joe Biseats.

“This Milley is an idiot,” Trump said. “I got to know him. He’s an idiot.”

Trump claimed Milley is the general that suggested it is cheaper to leave the military equipment in Afghanistan rather than take it out of the country upon withdrawal.

“Milley said to me one time, I’ll never forget it, ‘sir, it’s more expensive, sir, to take the equipment than to leave it,” Trump recalled. ‘I said, ‘really?’

“I mean you have a $10 million tank, you put it on a plane, and that’s more expensive than leaving it? He said it’s more expensive and I never forgot that he said that, because that’s probably the first time I realized that he was stupid.”

Trump also rebuked Democrats’ prosecutorial attacks on him and his former advisers, including subpoenas issued this week to advisers and staffers who spoke to the president on Jan. 6 when protesters entered the U.S. Capitol.

“They want to go after me because I have, they think, a big mouth,” Trump said. “I don’t have a big mouth. You know what I have? I have a mouth that tells the truth. I have a mouth that wants to save our country.”

Trump mocked Biden as the “biggest failure” as president, including suggesting former President Jimmy Carter is “very happy” to no longer hold that title.

“He’s doing nothing to hold the Chinese communist party accountable for unleashing the virus upon the world,” Trump said. “Biden did not even say the word ‘China’ in his U.N. speech because he’s too compromised to take them on, and then only briefly mentioned Afghanistan because his withdrawal has been such a disaster for him and our country.

“And, by the way, for his poll numbers, which have tanked after just eight months, Joe Biden is already the biggest failure ever to occupy the oval office.”

Trump was and IS right…about EVERYTHING.

I have to tell y’all…it was great to watch the 45th President of the United States of America do what he does best: communicate directly with average Americans.

Talk about a breath of fresh air,

I will take the brash honesty and “mean Tweets” of Donald J. Trump over the anti-American Policies, ineptitude, and prevarications of Dementia Joe and Heels Up Harris any day of the week.

Last night, American Citizens living in Georgia heard from a man who genuinely LOVES America and her people, instead of viewing us all as racist, misogynist, xenophobes…the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump.

Just like Trump did, with his refusal early in his first Presidential campaign to “act more presidential”, he is still taking his message directly to the American People.

You see, Gentle Readers, Trump has always been a “people person”.

That is the reason that, when he was still a contributor to Fox News, he would speak to everyone in the building, from the maintenance crew, on up the ladder.

As Sam Walton, the Founder of Walmart, knew, you don’t inspire people by acting imperious and above it all.

“Mr. Sam”, until his health would no longer allow him to do so, would travel to Walmart Stores in his old pickup truck, with a tie and a baseball cap on, visiting the employees, in order to find out how his stores were doing.

He knew that the only way to be successful and to stay in touch with the public, was to be out among them, and speak to them honestly and directly, as one would speak to a friend.

Just as President Trump did when he went on a “Thank You” Tour after being elected in 2016 and his use of Twitter to speak directly to the American People.

The Political Establishment, of both parties, lost that concept, a long time ago.

Bypassing the borders to communication, historically determined by both political parties and the Main Stream Media, is a concept which I first witnessed being used by a Presidential Candidate in the 1980 Presidential Election, the legendary Ronald Wilson Reagan.

While I am not comparing the two, I am noting that this strategy has proved effective for both men.

As America witnessed last night, Trump continues to strike a resonant chord in the hearts of Average Americans, living in the part of America, which the snobbish Political Elites refer to as “Flyover Country”, but which we refer to as “America’s Heartland”, or, quite simply, “HOME”.

The reason being, President Trump kept his promises.

He does not talk down to us while disparaging our Sovereign Nation, as Sleepy Joe Biden, “Dr.” Jill Biden, and Kamala Harris do..

Trump talks to us in a plain-spoken, clearly understood way, a style which is in stark contrast to a Far Left Democrat party full of professional politicians, whose only interest is the totalitarian retention of power in Washington, D.C., at whatever the cost.

Last night, the Former President of the United States of America made residents of Alabama, along with the rest of us average Americans, feel good about ourselves and the future of our Sovereign Nation

And, gentle readers, to see and hear a Former, and possibly Future American President who genuinely loves this country and her people and who was willing to give up his “lifestyle of the rich and famous” in order to secure a safe and prosperous future for American Citizens is indeed a “radical change” from what this country is experiencing coming out of the Oval Office now.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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Milley’s CCP Counterpart a “Sabre-Rattler”, In 2016, Milley Said “It’s Important (That) the Chinese Are Not an Enemy”

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Milley Li Zuocheng

Freebeacon.com reports that

The Chinese general whom Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mark Milley reportedly promised to warn about U.S. military action is among the regime’s biggest warmongers.

Li Zuocheng, a People’s Liberation Army chief and one of President Xi Jinping’s highest-ranking military officers, reportedly took several phone calls from Milley in the closing days of the Trump administration. America’s top military commander cited his five-year relationship with Li as reason to warn him of an American attack, according to journalist Bob Woodward. The Chinese general has a history of making public calls for military aggression, threatening to “resolutely smash” Taiwanese forces or any other country that challenges the CCP’s regional control.

“If the possibility for peaceful reunification is lost, the people’s armed forces will, with the whole nation, including the people of Taiwan, take all necessary steps to resolutely smash any separatist plots or actions,” Li said in a 2020 speech at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. “We do not promise to abandon the use of force and reserve the option to take all necessary measures to stabilize and control the situation in the Taiwan Strait.”

Woodward reported Milley placed the calls to Li outside of the chain of command, failing to notify other senior officials—or the president—of his actions. The top general also summoned officers to review practices for using nuclear weapons, saying he must be involved in any such decision.

Li’s comments were amplified on Chinese social media, fomenting anti-American sentiment. One post on Baijiahao, a website for writing and commentary sponsored by Chinese media giant Baidu, framed Li’s warnings as a threat to an “arrogant” United States in “cahoots” with Taiwan.

“The United States is in cahoots and arrogant, but General Li Zuocheng has also drawn a red line for the Taiwan Province authorities,” a translation of the post reads. “General Li Zuocheng’s warning is not a cliché. He is a fighting hero who … represents the attitude of every bloody Chinese son and daughter. The Taiwan Province authorities should not underestimate the determination of the mainland.”

The Chinese general has met with military brass from other adversaries of the United States. Li led a Chinese delegation in a meeting with Russian defense minister Sergei Shoigu in May 2018 to discuss “strengthening strategic coordination” between the two countries. Experts told the Washington Free Beacon in August that growing ties between the Russian and Chinese militaries pose a vital threat to American national security. Shoigu led operations supporting the Assad regime in Syria, as well as against Ukraine.

Li also rubbed elbows with Pakistani military leaders. Li met in 2017 with top Pakistani general Bilal Akbar to forge closer military cooperation. In the aftermath of the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban has signaled interest in joining Pakistani and Chinese trade agreements.

Revelations about Li’s past may intensify mounting calls from Republicans for Milley’s resignation. Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) demanded President Joe Biden immediately fire Milley for his “reckless behavior.”

“These actions by General Milley demonstrate a clear lack of sound judgment, and I urge you to dismiss him immediately,” Rubio said. “General Milley has attempted to rationalize his reckless behavior by arguing that what he perceived as the military’s judgment as [sic] more stable than its civilian commander. It is a dangerous precedent that could be asserted at any point in the future by General Milley or others. It threatens to tear apart our nation’s longstanding principle of civilian control of the military.”

Joint Chiefs spokesman Col. Dave Butler told the Washington Free Beacon that Milley “regularly communicates” with leaders worldwide to avoid “unintended consequences” and provide “clarity.”

“His calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were in keeping with these duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability,” Butler said. “All calls from the Chairman to his counterparts, including those reported, are staffed, coordinated and communicated with the Department of Defense and the interagency. … General Milley continues to act and advise within his authority in the lawful tradition of civilian control of the military and his oath to the Constitution.”

Isn’t friendship just wonderful?

In an article posted January 21, 2016 on BreakingDefense.com, Milley said that Russia was America’s number one enemy.

Guess what he said about China?

“It’s important [that] the Chinese are not an enemy,” Milley emphasized. “I would caution anyone from saying China is an ‘adversary,’ [even]. Fortunately…the Chinese take a long view.” China’s strategic patience and self-confidence contrasts with the Russians, whom Milley noted are bitter and anxious over the loss of the Soviet empire, the expansion of NATO, and the demographic disaster of an ever-shrinking ethnic Russian population.

While Chinese intentions are less aggressive than the Russians’, their long-term capabilities are greater. With the rise of China and the Asia-Pacific generally, Milley said, “we are living through…one of the largest shifts in global power in world history,” comparable to the fall of the Roman Empire or the rise of the current Atlantic-centric global economy after 1492. “History is not necessarily optimistic” about such shifts: In Harvard case studies of 18 rising powers, he said, 15 ended up at war with the incumbent major power.

Back on February 20, 2020, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned about the Chinese Infiltration of our Country which began under Obama.

Per their website, 1000plan.org, China initiated the Thousand Talents Plan at the end of 2008.

By 2017, China had recruited more than 7,000 professionals, per a bi-partisan Senate Sub-committee report titled “Threats to the U.S. Research Enterprise: China’s Talent Recruitment Plans” published in November of last year.

Okay. Why was this allowed in the first place?

And, why didn’t the Federal Government put a stop to it?

Who was the President in January of 2009?

Oh, wait…Now, I remember (with a little help from The Washington Post)

Obama became the first U.S. president to visit China during his first year in office. But his administration was taken aback by how completely the Chinese controlled all aspects of that visit.

“He wasn’t allowed to say much at all,” said Orville Schell, a longtime China scholar who was in China during the visit. “The Chinese kept him from meeting certain people, from taking questions or even radio broadcasts. He didn’t know quite how to respond. He didn’t want to be impolite. It took the U.S. a while to understand that this was the direction China and the relationship was headed.”

Some have blamed Obama for adopting such an overly optimistic and open stance during those early years. For all his outreach, current and former top U.S. diplomats say, Obama got little in return, except the feeling of being burned by Beijing.

Well, gosh.

Milley said that his relationship with Li Zuocheng had been going on for 5 years at the time of the phone calls in question.

That meant that it started under President Barack Hussein Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden, when Milley was Chief of Staff of the Army, starting in August of 2015.

No wonder Biden said that he has complete faith in General Milley.

Once again…the plot sickens.

Until He Comes,

KJ

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Trump Says Gen. Milley’s 2 Phone Calls With Chinese Counterpart Before Presidential Election and on Jan. 6 are “Treasonous if True”

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Trump Milley

FoxNews.com reports that

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed skepticism regarding the report that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley went behind his back to call Chinese officials but said such an action was treasonous if true.

Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa alleged in their upcoming book “Peril” that Milley made two secret phone calls to Gen. Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army, his Chinese counterpart.

Milley reportedly made the calls before the 2020 presidential election on Oct. 30, 2020, and two days after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, on Jan. 8, 2021, and assured Zuocheng of the stability of the American government. He also allegedly assured the Chinese general that he would contact him regarding any imminent attack from the U.S. in the waning days of Trump’s presidency.

“So, first of all, if it is actually true, which is hard to believe, that he would have called China and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or in advance of an attack, that’s treason,” Trump told host Sean Spicer on NewsmaxTV’s “Spicer & Co.”

“I’ve had so many calls today saying that’s treason, number one,” Trump continued. Acknowledging he was tough on China regarding trade and COVID-19, he went on to describe the idea that would unilaterally attack China as “totally ridiculous.”

In a statement released shortly after his interview on Newsmax, Trump called on Milley to step aside, floating a theory that Milley came up with the story himself and leaked it to Woodward and Costa, whom he described as journalists “who write fiction, not fact.”

“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,” Trump added.

Former President Trump is speaking the absolute truth.

One of the reasons that some of the G.O.P. Establishment did not like him was the fact that he was not a War Hawk Like, say, Liz Cheney.

But wait…there’s more to this “Milley Mess” per CNBC.com…

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the top U.S. Army general that then-President Donald Trump was a “dictator” who “should have been arrested on the spot” after what she called his coup attempt to remain in the White House by inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, a new book reveals.

Pelosi also said during a phone call in January with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mike Milley that “the Republicans have blood on their hands” for enabling Trump’s delusions about his ability to retain the presidency, the book says.

“But it is a sad state of affairs for our country that we’ve been taken over by a dictator who used force against another branch of government,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, told Milley during the call several days after the riot, according to “Peril,” a new book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

“And he’s still sitting there. He should have been arrested. He should have been arrested on the spot,” said Pelosi, who is second in line in the order of presidential succession.

“He had a coup d’etat against us so he can stay in office. There should be some way to remove him,” said the speaker, who at the time was trying to pursue the suspension of Trump’s power as president by getting then-Vice President Mike Pence and the Trump Cabinet to trigger the constitution’s 25th Amendment.

The book says Milley believed that the Jan. 6 riot by Trump supporters was a planned, coordinated attack that was designed to overthrow the U.S. government to prevent Congress from confirming the election of Joe Biden as president.

…The book says that Milley feared that even after the insurrection, Trump might still seek what the general called a “Reichstag moment,” a reference to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler assuming full power in Germany after the burning of that nation’s Parliament building in 1933.

Dear Lord.

The Democrat Elite are insane.

Their Trump Derangement Syndrome had raged out-of-control for four year, turning them into a party of Captain Ahabs, looking to harpoon the Great White Whale, while deathly afraid of him at the same time.

If what is in “Peril” is true, Milley committed treason and sedition against a sitting Commander-in-Chief and not only needs to resign, he should be brought up on charges.

Here’s the sad part…

Even if it is true, the Democrat Elite will arrange for him to get away with it.

As we are witnessing with the wearing of masks, when it comes to the law and the Constitution, rules only apply to us “common” people.

Time and time again, Democrats have gotten away with things that you and I would have been put under the jail for.

The Anti-American Nightmare known as the Biden Presidency just keeps getting worse and worse with each passing day, doesn’t it?

I am afraid to ask “What’s Next?” because it will probably involve #DementiaJoe mistaking the launch button on the Nuclear Football for his intercom to ask the White House Kitchen Staff to bring him some ice cream.

But, I digress…

Both General Milley and Secretary of State Tony Blinken need to resign.

Both are arrogant, clueless, and incompetent.

And, that is a combination which will hurt the safety and reputation of our country more than it will help it. 

Until He Comes,

KJ

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