Opinion
Former President and present GOP presidential candidate front-runner Donald Trump took to Reality Social to weigh in on the scandal surrounding the key hospitalization of Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin. The US and, by extension, the world first realized about Secretary Austin’s hospitalization days after he was admitted and positioned in an intensive care unit.
Much more regarding is the revelations that almost all of the Biden administration, together with the Commander-in-Chief himself, weren’t made conscious of the Secretary’s medical situation or whereabouts till days later. Will anybody be held accountable for this obvious obfuscation of the reality?
Donald Trump and plenty of others assume somebody must be. Nonetheless, it stays to be seen if accountability, not to mention transparency, shall be achieved.
You need to be fired!
Former Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump wrote on Reality Social:
“Failed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin should be fired immediately for improper professional conduct and dereliction of duty.”
This newest assault on the Secretary of Protection comes after the Pentagon lastly disclosed that the sixth individual within the presidential line of succession and the second most necessary individual within the navy chain of command subsequent to the President himself was hospitalized for an unknown cause with out anybody being made conscious.
This consists of the navy secretaries and the Nationwide Safety Council, who weren’t made conscious till days later. Even the Deputy Secretary of Protection, who assumed Secretary Austin’s duties on January 1st, wasn’t instructed why she was doing his job till days later.
Mr. Trump goes on to the touch on the observe report of senior navy officers failures and lack of accountability by writing that Secretary Austin has:
“…performed poorly, and should have been dismissed long ago, along with “General” Mark Milley, for a lot of causes, however specifically the catastrophic give up in Afghanistan, maybe probably the most embarrassing second within the historical past of our Nation!”
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Dereliction of Obligation
It’s not simply Donald Trump claiming Secretary Austin must be given his strolling papers. Congressman Jim Banks identified that:
“…he has been a disaster since Day One and should be replaced by someone who will focus on making the military ready to fight and win wars instead of advancing woke political causes of the Biden administration.”
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Mr. Trump’s former Vice President, Mike Pence, acknowledged the next:
“To think that at a time when we have allies at war in Eastern Europe and here in Israel, that the leader of America’s military at the Pentagon would be out of commission for a number of days, and the President of the United States didn’t know about it. I think it was a dereliction of duty…”
Whereas Secretary Austin is not in america navy, he as soon as was and is in each U.S. navy member’s chain of command. If any soldier, sailor, Airman, or Marine have been to turn out to be hospitalized and never inform their supervisor or these of their chain of command, they’d have some very uncomfortable inquiries to reply together with a potential Absent With out Go away (AWOL) cost.
Folks did know
A senior Pentagon official instructed CNN that that they had acquired:
“…strict orders to not contact him and let him rest.”
It’s all the time good to permit these present process medical therapy the time to get better in peace. The purpose behind the above is that individuals did know concerning the Secretary’s situation and whereabouts, simply not the folks you’d assume ought to know.
These closest to the Secretary certainly knew which would come with his employees, a whole group of personnel whose sole job is to handle the Secretary’s life and actions. In reality, on January 2nd, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Common CQ Brown, was notified that the Secretary was hospitalized.
Granted, Common Brown technically isn’t in any chain of command, given his place. However sure questions come to thoughts:
- Who instructed Common Brown?
- Did Common Brown ask if the White Home and navy service secretaries have been knowledgeable?
- Was he instructed that nobody else could be notified then, and if that’s the case, did he inquire why?
This incident has confirmed that america isn’t run by elected and appointed officers however by incompetent and self-serving bureaucrats and staffers who imagine they know greatest what the American folks and, worse but, the President of america must know.
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