Top US General Mark Milley has shielded himself after a book detailed he had "secret" calls with China in the midst of worries about then-President Donald Trump.
The calls last October and January were to console the Chinese military, Gen Milley said on Wednesday.
Mr Trump said the cases were created and Republicans have required the general to be terminated.
President Joe Biden said he has "extraordinary certainty" in Gen Milley.
Gen Milley's representative said that the calls were with regards to his "obligations and obligations passing on consolation to keep up with vital solidness".
The calls to Chinese General Li Zuocheng were uncovered on Tuesday in extricates from another book by Washington Post analytical columnists. They were made soon after the official political race and after Mr Trump would not acknowledge his loss.
The book, "Danger", said that after the January 6 mobs, Gen Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "was sure that Trump had gone into a genuine mental decrease in the outcome of the political decision".
He was supposedly stressed that Mr Trump could "denounce any kind of authority", the book claims.
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He supposedly told the Chinese general that the "American government is steady" and consoled Gen Li that the US would not assault. On the off chance that they did as such, the Chinese would be cautioned first, the concentrate cites him as saying.
The book likewise said that Gen Milley had told his staff that assuming Mr Trump requested an atomic strike, he would need to affirm it before it was done.
Mr Trump blamed Gen Milley for "injustice" and depicted the cases as "counterfeit news" in an assertion.
Senior Republican Senator Marco Rubio has likewise called for Mr Biden to fire the general.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said: "The president has total trust in his authority, his energy and his constancy to our Constitution."
She added that Mr Biden has total trust in Gen Milley proceeding to serve in his job.
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