The joint chairman of the chief of staff, General Mark Milley, reported that two phone calls with Chinese People’s Liberation Army General Li Zuocheng, near the end of the Trump administration, are particularly blatant. necessarily because they occurred, but because of the content that was there, Dan Bongino argued about “Fox News Primetime.”
Bongino, host of Fox News’ “Unfiltered,” told host Lawrence Jones that if the allegations of Washington Post reporters Robert Costa and Robert Woodward, the chief of staff, are proven to be true. sets should be quickly expelled from their Biden administration role and prosecuted.
“The call is not the controversy: this is the White House that makes the ‘little bright red object’ [rhetoric]. It’s like saying: I have conversations with my wife Paula every day and one day we talk about stealing a bank: it’s not about talking to your wife [that is the problem]”, he said.” Of course, Milley talks to generals. This is the content of the conversation. Do you think the White House is dumb and they don’t know it? We talk to generals all the time. Absolutely. The question is and the only question the White House has successfully I think manipulating the media again is what the content of the call was. “
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Bongino said, as a rule, that he did not want to support the publication of private transcripts of the presidential or executive branch, in part because they could generate mistrust among other nations, but that in this case it could be justified.
He and Jones noted that throughout Trump’s tenure, the news cycle was often full of leaked transcripts that undermined Trump.
Bongino argued that Milley-Li’s transcript could be shared confidentially with some lawmakers who could determine whether disciplinary action is warranted or whether Costa and Woodward’s writings are true.
“Did Milley say he would send them a warning from the Chinese Communist Party if we attacked? If he did, it could be an act of treason, and that guy would have to be prosecuted for it,” Bongino said. “If he didn’t, he could get out of it, but if he said he’s in a world of trouble.”
As for foreign telephone conversations, Bongino noted the Democrats’ commotion over then-national security adviser Michael Flynn – also a military general himself – in talks with a Russian counterpart on diplomatic issues.
He noted that the call turned into a “cosmic controversy” that turned into an FBI investigation that caused Flynn to be removed from his role just weeks after his tenure.
“I find it weird now that it’s the same scenario, even though it involves a possible nuclear war and the same leftists who condemned Mike Flynn for a phone call to 1/1000 of the magnitude of that, are suddenly trying to get Mark Milley a pass. Give me a break. I know you’re scams on the left side of the media. At least try to hide it sometimes, “Bongino continued.
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Later in the interview, Bongino and Jones remarked that a startling critic of Milley appeared in the form of Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council adviser whom Democrats praised during Trump’s indictment proceedings.
Vindman has said Milley should resign if Costa’s book is true.
Bongino argued that Democrats don’t really care about Vindman and whether he helped them in the past:
“They’ll throw Vindman under the bus in a second. They don’t care about Vindman. Vindman, my cabin. It was just a useful tool for them,” he said.