FIRE AUSTIN! Trump Unloads on Defense Secretary After Nobody Notices He's Gone Missing

Former President and 2024 GOP frontrunner Donald Trump absolutely unloaded on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the Biden Administration in a post on TRUTH Social on Sunday; “He has performed poorly,” Trump said.

“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,” he wrote on Truth Social Sunday.

From The New York Post:

Trump’s pointed comments came as it was revealed that not even Austin’s deputy, Kathleen Hicks, was told that the secretary of defense was rushed to the intensive care unit of Walter Reed Army Medical Center on New Year’s Day, CNN reports.

He also failed to inform President Biden for three days that he was in the hospital and had assigned at least some of his duties to Hicks, who was on a scheduled vacation in Puerto Rico.

But it remains unclear the extent to which Austin’s duties were delegated to Hicks or whether Austin was involved in any major decisions while at the hospital.

Many Republicans and Pentagon officials, however, have called on Austin to address the secrecy surrounding his absence.

“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,” former Vice President Mike Pence said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday.

“I think it was a dereliction of duty and the secretary and the administration, frankly, need to step forward and give the American people the facts.”

More over at The New York Post:

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