Former president Donald Trump said in a statement on Nov. 26 that he never considered going to war with China. Trump’s remarks were part of a tirade against Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, who told Congress in September that he assured a top Chinese general that the United States was not going to attack China. “I never had even a thought of going to war with China, other than the war I was winning, which was on TRADE,” Trump said. “I was the only President in decades to not get us into a war—I got us out of wars!” The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Milley’s spokesman, Dave Butler, did not respond to requests for comment. Trump’s statement on Friday also targeted Bob Woodward, the author of one of the books in which the revelations of Milley’s calls with China were first made. Milley told the U.S. …