According to a report from Newsmax, the Bidenb Administration will not fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in the wake of his disappearing act last week; Austin was in the ICU but Biden didn’t know.
“Austin, who sits just below Biden at the top of the chain of command of the U.S. military, withheld his multi-day hospitalization from the president and the public for several days. He remains in the hospital, which he entered on New Year’s Day,” Newsmax reports.
“There is no plan for anything other than for Secretary Austin to stay in the job,” John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesman, told reporters on Air Force One Monday.
Former President Donald Trump is calling for Austin’s firing.
“He has been missing for one week, and nobody, including his boss, Crooked Joe Biden, had a clue as to where he was, or might be,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) also called for Austin’s resignation.
“There must be full accountability beginning with the immediate resignation of Secretary Austin and those that lied for him and a Congressional investigation into this dangerous dereliction of duty,” Stefanik said in a statement.
More over at Newsmax:
WH: Biden Not Firing Defense Chief Austin https://t.co/xgsb5jLjTc
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