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Top US General Mark Milley has defended himself after a book by famous Washington Post journalists reported he had made &quot;secret&quot; phone calls to assure China&rsquo;s top General that the US would not launch a nuclear strike amid worry that then President Donald Trump had &ldquo;gone rogue.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
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The calls last October and January were to reassure the Chinese military, Gen Milley said on Wednesday.</p>
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Mr Trump accused Gen Milley of &quot;treason&quot; and described the claims as &quot;fake news&quot; in a statement.</p>
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Senior Republican Senator Marco Rubio has also called for Mr Biden to fire the general.</p>
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However, President Joe Biden said he has &quot;great confidence&quot; in General&nbsp; Milley.</p>
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On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said: &quot;The president has complete confidence in his leadership, his patriotism and his fidelity to our Constitution.&quot;</p>
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She added that Mr Biden has complete confidence in Gen Milley continuing to serve in his role.</p>
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Gen Milley&#39;s spokesman said that the calls were in keeping with his &quot;duties and responsibilities conveying reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability&quot;.</p>
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The phone calls to Chinese General Li Zuocheng were revealed on Tuesday by CNN in excerpts from a new book titled &lsquo;Peril&rsquo; written by&nbsp; Washington Post veteran journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. They were made just after the presidential election and after Mr Trump refused to accept his defeat.</p>
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General Milley, deeply shaken by the Capitol Hil assault on Jan 6, &#39;was certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election.</p>
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Milley was worried that Trump could &#39;go rogue,&#39; the authors write.</p>
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In response, Milley took extraordinary action, and called a secret meeting in his Pentagon office on January 8 to review the process for military action, including launching nuclear weapons. Speaking to senior military officials in charge of the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon&#39;s war room, Milley instructed them not to take orders from anyone unless he was involved.</p>
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CNN has reported excerpts from the book which is to be released on September 21. General Milley allegedly told the Chinese general that the &quot;American government is stable&quot; and reassured Gen Li that the US would not attack. If they did so, the Chinese would be warned first, the extract quotes him as saying.</p>
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The book also said that Gen Milley had told his staff that if Mr Trump ordered a nuclear strike, then he would have to confirm it before it was carried out.</p>
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