National Review’s Nate Hochman writes, “Bob Woodward thinks General Mark Milley’s secret talks with the Chinese military were “courageous.” In the face of the existential threat that Donald Trump posed to the republic, “the one courageous person who did something was General Milley,” the Washington Post journalist told Stephen Colbert in a Tuesday night interview…

Milley might think his judgment was more sound than that of the man that Americans elected president in 2016, but—as luck would have it—our Founders gave us a political system in which unelected appointees don’t get to make those kinds of determinations.https://t.co/qR4yBc9qIF

— Nate Hochman (@njhochman) September 24, 2021

…seizing power was exactly what Milley was doing. The nation’s highest-ranking military officer was taking matters into his own hands because he trusted his own judgment better than that of the man that Americans had elected to preside over the federal government. As the editors of National Review wrote last week, ‘Generals don’t get to have their own personal foreign policies. Period. They answer to the elected branches, and they must carry out every lawful directive and policy set by the people’s representatives.”

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Just the News reports, “Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley ‘could have started an accidental nuclear war’ if he indeed made unauthorized phone calls to China in the final weeks of the Trump presidency to assure Beijing that the U.S. would not attack the country.

The assertion that Milley made two such calls is reportedly included in an upcoming book titled ‘Peril’ by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

Milley, as President Trump’s top military adviser, made several authorized calls between the time Trump was losing reelection in 2020 and after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, amid his reported concerns that the world was on edge over both matters and that Trump was in an unstable emotional state.

‘If I were president, I would sit him down immediately and have him take a polygraph test and ask him, ‘What did you say to the Chinese?” Paul, a Kentucky lawmaker, said on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

‘Did you indicate that the president was liable to attack them and that you would try to prevent that? If that is true, that could have started an accidental nuclear war.”

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Fox News reports, “Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Wednesday that General Mark Milley needs to be interviewed and face consequences if it is confirmed that he spoke with Chinese officials out of concern then-President Donald Trump would cause conflict with the communist nation.

“Gen. Milley needs to be called in TODAY and asked under polygraph what he said to China.”

Sen. @RandPaul tells me why he believes Milley’s alleged actions could have “caused an accidental war.” pic.twitter.com/81YadLJbbv

— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) September 15, 2021

‘It should be investigated immediately, today, he should be questioned under oath, if not with a polygraph test, on whether it happened,’ Paul said. ‘If it happened, he should be immediately relieved of his duties and court-martialed. You have to find out if it’s true. This is innuendo and rumor and propaganda perhaps. But, if it is true he absolutely immediately needs to be removed.”

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