That incident brought the Black Lives Matter protests over the killing of George Floyd to the center of the 2020 presidential campaign. intent or resolve, ones he thought might lead to war.īoth books relate how Milley had been offended when Trump put him and other top defense officials on display in the Lafayette Park incident in June 2020.
The general wanted to head off any misperceptions of U.S.
exercises near their shores as threatening, given Trump's hostile rhetoric and erratic behavior, they write. intelligence indicating the Chinese saw routine U.S. More than a few readers saw Milley emerge from those pages as a national hero - Horatius blocking the bridge to autocracy.īut Woodward and Costa expand on this theme and add extensive detail. These incidents had not been reported previously, although readers of I Alone Can Fix It by two other Post reporters, Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, had already learned of Milley's fears regarding Trump's potential misuse of the military. According to the book, Milley cites the president's "mental decline," and Pelosi uses the term "crazy." In this account, the two are clearly worried that Trump will attempt some use of his power as commander in chief in a last-ditch effort to keep Biden from being inaugurated on Jan. 6 about the need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump from office before his term ends. Milley Defends His Call To A Chinese General About Trump's Rhetoric And The U.S.īut in Peril, Milley is also quoted speaking with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after Jan. commanders regularly communicate with their counterparts in other countries, including China and Russia. Milley's spokesperson at the Pentagon said top U.S. That idea has been echoed by Republican officeholders and conservative commentators and a variety of other critics.
Trump immediately said that the story, "if true," meant Milley had committed treason. Capitol and routed members of the House and Senate.
Woodward and Costa report this happened once in October before the election and once after the Jan. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called his counterpart in the Chinese military to assuage Chinese fears about Trump launching some sort of American attack. The revelation, as anyone with social media or a cable TV connection knows, is that Gen. The book is Peril, the third volume in Woodward's "Trump trilogy" - this one written with fellow Washington Post reporter Robert Costa. Bob Woodward's third book - after Fear and Rage - about Donald Trump turns out to be just as much about President Biden and how he got to be Trump's successor.īut dominating the pre-publication publicity and reaction is one explosive revelation that detonates in the prologue.
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