There is growing fallout over Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospital stay and treatment in the ICU, with criticism pouring in over the lack of transparency. NBC News’ Allie Raffa has the latest as more details emerge about who knew about Austin’s hospitalization.
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Has the secretary been secretly transitioning, and going for an extended stay for the final procedures??🤔
When I don't show up to work, people notice. I do my job well.
With all the BS with Biden administration this must STOP. RFK for 2024!!!!
Most Americans don’t care. Most can’t even name a Cabinet member.
Blinken should just run the country to be honest
This is scary. This shows less of redpect to the president and democracy.
Not good this time for no one to know. He needs to be fired and get someone else that takes us Americans seriously.
Put politics aside..
If Trump was sitting president right now, n Trump's Defense secretary went Mia, media, n his entire staff, every member of congress n Senate would be slamming him for lack of transparency etc .
2 tier justice system.
Another disturbing alarming situation just shoved under a rug
Trump was removed from office. Jim crow joe biden and every cabinet member were not voted in by voters, they were installed by Joe. Thiss just shows what ive known all along!
This entire dictatorship cabinet members and Joe's picks for these positions were made because of skin color not qualifications
Imagine being in Intensive care unit, in a hospital, and running the Armed forces via hospital bed, and being on Very powerful pain medication (Narcotics) i say again, Steong Narcotics and has assumed his duties….
WOW WOW WOW WOW 🤯🤯😲😲😲
Scary is not even the word
Afghanistan..this man is incompetent and losing lives because of it.
What a DISASTER!!! Where are tax money go??????????
He might wanna surprise us and appear as a trans-woman soon as it is very common practice in Biden's administration. Will see. hahahahahah. Now a days it is so trendy to be a trans. LOL
The same who give away Americas military in Afghanistan, are the same who give away Americas future to Ukraine. Democrats are accountable.
EXACTLY.
Its is NOT a personal issue, its a SECURITY issue.
For someone in this position and NOT UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE,
MUST be removed.
Pieces of textures ………. nuts by see pieces of sheet
Just incompetence, 3 years in, and no one knows what to do…
Hey a major defense official missing from the Whitehouse for 4 days and no one noticed with wars and everything else going on with our military says A lot about how Biden is running this country.POORLY
Sec. of Defense goes AWOL. Biden: "Come on, man. It was just four days".
All those illegals flooding our southern border is going to triple prices that are already too high. But democrats say they don't care as long as they stay in power.
Libs?
Israel stress taking its toll on him
Let me understand; is this a mandatory to report your hospitalization? If a private citizen has a right not to be on a directory hospital list upon admission, why not he? I don't want a bunch of reporters coming to the hospital and bugging me though.
i believe Biden was notified about this but "HE FORGOT" and was more worried about the MAGAS! What a mess this administration is. SO, SO SAD!!!!!
Typical irresponsible hazardous Democrat right there. We need a new president NOW!!!!
Talk sbout a non story. Perhaps he wasn't in a place he could call. Perhaps he just felt like crap and didn't feel up to calling people. He placed someone else in his place
Zo maar even verdwenen 😂😂
Usually I support NBC but jumping on SECDEF for not asking for their permission to take some time off. Wankers. And now they are giving the GOP their full coverage.
ITS NOT UP TO THE PERSON IN ICU TO NOTIFY ANYONE!!!😡😡😡😡HOW LOW CAN YOU GET!👿👿👿👿👿👿
While totally incompetent Austin was in the hospital, American military bases in Iraq and Syria were under constant attack by Iranian backed militias, the Houthi rebels and Iran still attack commercial shipping, Hezbollah rains rockets down on Northern Israel, North Korea fires artillery shells into South Korea. You get the picture with this feckless president and this clown administration.
WHO TF IS RUNNING THIS 💩SHOW? IS ANYONE EVER ACCOUNTABLE IN THIS CRIMINALLY INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION.
But we hear from KJP that Biden meets regularly with all his cabinet members. Apparently not.
But anyone with a brain knows KJP lies every time she steps up to podium.
Why bother telling The Big Guy anything? He knows not where he is at any given moment nor what he did five minutes ago..so what’s the big deal?
If a Captain of a US Navy Ship did this what would happen to that Captain? Please ell me.
Maybe he doesn't know who his boss is? Sad America today
He was probably worried about being removed so more secrets. We're always discovering after the fact
Tweedle dum and tweedle Dee still facing our defenses. And another budget to roll over to the left .
Folks, he tows the party line and is black. He will face NO punishment. In fact, just watch, he will fall upward. What a country!!!
Wow the most transparent administration is history. Joe on vacation, defense secretary in icu the world on fire and the border wide open. Nothing to see here.