A Senior Defense Official
confirmed to Josh Rogin that
Axios’s reporting on Esper’s role in China is accurate.
If true, this was likely a wide-ranging Deep State coup and it would explain why no one came forward and put the Constitution and the American public first.
THE STORY
“Milley was absolutely not going rogue. Esper took the initiative on this in October, Esper asked his own policy folks to backchannel the message. Milley’s message followed Esper’s,” Rogin wrote on Twitter.
The new Woodward-Costa book, Peril, which was only meant to make Donald Trump look bad, has caused some problems for the Deep State who are now reframing some of the messages in Peril, despite the fact that there are many direct quotes by Milley.
“In mid-October 2020, top Pentagon officials grew concerned about the intelligence they’d seen. The Chinese communists were allegedly concerned about a surprise US strike against China,”
Axios reported based on three sources.
One source said, “I think they [the Chinese] were getting bad intelligence… a combination of ‘wag the dog’ conspiracy thinking and bad intel from bad sources.”