Joe Concha: What else did General Milley keep Trump and Pence in the dark?

Fox News contributor Joe Concha hit out on Sunday Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of the Washington Post for retaining the explosive revelation that Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley made phone calls to a Chinese counterpart in the final months of the Trump administration.

During an appearance on “Life, Liberty & Levin,” Concha asked if authorship of Woodward and Costa’s book superseded their responsibilities as journalists.

“Woodward and Costa – as reporters, not authors – had an obligation to their readers, to the American people, to publish this information in the pages of the Washington Post at the time instead of waiting for the pages of ‘Peril. ‘almost a year later,’ Concha told Mark Levin.

MILEY’S CALLS WITH CHINESE COUNTERPART “WERE NOT SECRET”: US OFFICIALS

Responding to Levin’s question with a question, Concha questioned whether the “national security implications” of Milley’s conduct should have prompted the Washington Post deputy editor and the national political reporter to present the story. like breaking news when they initially knew Milley was “getting a thug”. “and” to conduct its own foreign policy “.

Concha added that Milley’s conduct ahead of the 2020 election, which allegedly included a halt to military exercises in the South China Sea, raised the question of what other information Milley might have been hiding from Donald Trump, Mike Pence and d ‘other high level alumni. officials during the previous administration.

Milley was at the center of a firestorm amid reports that he called in General Li Zuocheng of the People’s Liberation Army to assure him that the United States was not suddenly going to war or attack China.

On Tuesday, Trump expressed skepticism that Milley had gone behind his back to call Chinese officials, but said such an act would amount to treason.

The former president also called the idea that he would unilaterally attack China “totally ridiculous”.

Later in September, Milley will testify before Congress about his appeals.

“I think it’s best that I reserve my comments on the matter until I do so before lawmakers who have legal responsibility for overseeing the US military,” Milley said Friday. “I will go into all the levels of detail that Congress wishes to address in a few weeks.”

Fox News’ Jon Brown contributed to this report.