Trump and GOP Rep. Gosar suggest Joint Chiefs boss Mark Milley deserves death

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump and Republican Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona suggested that outgoing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley was a traitor who deserved to be executed.

Trump blasted Milley in a social media post on Friday that accused Milley of going behind his back by making phone calls to Chinese counterparts in the final months of Trump’s administration.

“If the Fake News reporting is correct, [Milley] was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States,” Trump wrote in the post on his Truth Social site.,

“This is an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been death!”

“A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act,” wrote Trump, who by a wide margin is leading in polls of 2024 GOP presidential nomination contenders.

Milley in September 2021 told Congress he had made it clear to Chinese officials that Trump was not planning to attack China in his final weeks as president.

“My task at that time was to de-escalate,” Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee at that time. “My message again was consistent: Stay calm, steady, and de-escalate. We are not going to attack you.”

Gosar in a newsletter published Sunday accused Milley of coordinating with then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., “to hurt President Trump, and treasonously working behind Trump’s back” by purportedly delaying National Guard assistance to the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

“In a better society, quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung,” Gosar wrote.

Gosar also called Milley, a four-star general with more than four decades of military service, a “traitor.”

A spokesman for Milley, who is stepping down as Joint Chiefs chairman…