Alexis Guilleux, edited by Clément Perruche with AFP 08:14, September 15, 2021

In a book called "Peril", two famous American journalists reveal that the American Chief of Staff was very worried about Donald Trump's mental health.

The head of the US military is said to have taken secret measures to avoid a war with China.

The revelation is causing a stir in the United States.

In the United States, a book called

Peril

should be like a bomb.

In this book written by Robert Costa and Bob Woodward, known to have exposed the Watergate scandal, the two journalists reveal that the American Chief of Staff Mark Milley was very worried about Donald Trump's mental health and allegedly took covert measures to avoid nuclear war with China.

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Appeal to the Chinese military

According to the two journalists, the American Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, began by calling his Chinese counterpart, General Li, on October 30, a few days before the presidential election.

"I want to assure you that the American state is stable. We are not going to attack you," he told him on the first phone call, according to this book based on the anonymous testimonies of 200 American officials.

General Milley recalled his Chinese counterpart two months later, after the deadly assault on the US Congress that rocked US democracy and as Donald Trump challenged Joe Biden's electoral victory.

"Everything is fine," he told her.

"But democracy is sometimes messy."

Trump's "degraded" mental health 

In addition, General Milley convened the General Staff to stress that, if Donald Trump ordered a nuclear strike, he had to be informed first.

He asked all the officers gathered to confirm that they understood correctly, add reporters Woodward and Costa, according to which it was an "oath".

The chief of staff also contacted the director of the CIA to ask her to monitor the behavior of the president.

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According to the two journalists, the American Chief of Staff was also convinced that Donald Trump's mental state had deteriorated after his electoral defeat.

On Tuesday, the former president reacted on the ultra-conservative Newsmax channel.

"If that's true, what's hard to believe is betrayal. It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I never thought of attacking China."

Abuse of power ?

"Some may think that Milley overstepped his authority and gave himself excessive powers," write the authors of

Peril

. But he was convinced that he was doing what was necessary "so that there is no historic rupture in the international order, of accidental war with China or others, and that nuclear weapons do not. is not used, ”they add. For the moment, no reaction from the Pentagon or the Biden administration. 

Péril

comes out Monday, September 20 in bookstores.