Milley denies ever advocating attack on Iran, disputing account in Trump indictment and Meadows book

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‘IT DIDN’T HAPPEN’: Outgoing Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, who retires in two weeks, is doing a round of exit interviews with various media organizations, and in the latest with CNN, he flatly denies the suggestion that he ever pressed former President Donald Trump to attack Iran.

“As the chairman or any member of the joint chiefs, our job is to render advice. We have plans for all kinds of things. And when we render advice, typically we say course of action, one, two, or three. We talk about the costs and the risks, and we make recommendations. And I can assure you that not one time have I ever recommended to attack Iran,” Milley told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in the interview, which airs in full on Sunday.

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