https://newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/milley-china-afghanistan/2021/09/14/id/1036424/
Claims made in the new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley took action after Jan. 6 to limit then-President Donald Trump's power are all a bid to draw attention away from the Biden administration's ''incompetent'' withdrawal from Afghanistan, Trump told Newsmax.
You never heard the word China mentioned in a thing like this, Trump said Tuesday in a telephone interview on "Spicer & Co."
"You heard a lot of anger about China on trade, and we made a great trade deal. You heard a lot of anger ... with the China virus. But for them, for him to say ... that I would even think about attacking China, I think he's trying to just get out of his incompetent withdrawal out of Afghanistan."
Trump called the withdrawal "probably the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to our country" with 13 U.S. service members killed at the airport in Kabul with less than a week before the pullout.
"We left with embarrassment on our face," Trump said. "We left Americans behind. And we left $85 billion worth of the best equipment in the world that I bought, because I was the one that rebuilt our military, and then Biden gave it away."
For Milley to say Trump "was going to attack China is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, and everybody knows it," Trump said. "That is a treasonous statement."
"We had a good agreement. They had to meet a lot of conditions," Trump said. "They wouldn't meet them, and we bombed the hell out of them, and they'd call and they'd say, all right, we'll meet them."
Trump said that if he were still in office, the military would have stayed until all Americans and Afghan allies were out.
Trump pointed to the list of Afghans who worked with U.S. forces that the Biden administration gave to the Taliban before leaving, essentially handing them a kill list, he noted.
"Those people are in serious danger," Trump said, calling Biden's military leaders "the dumbest people."
Meanwhile, he said, Milley told ''this story about me attacking China. Think of it. I'm going to attack China. What's the reason exactly, other than that they screw us on trade. You don't attack them for that."
Where is the rest of the GOP?
Trump's biggest problem isn't the left its the so called conservatives and suburban housewives who prefer the high character of treason