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Biden Admin Shocker: Defense Secretary Hospitalized Days Ago, Press Alarmed By Late Notice
Daily Wire ^ | 1/5/24 | Daniel Chaitin

Posted on 01/05/2024 10:40:54 PM PST by CFW

The Biden administration waited until Friday to announce that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized on Monday, a delay of several days that alarmed the Pentagon press corps.

Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder provided a brief update on Austin in a statement that was released by the Department of Defense (DoD) at around 5 p.m., or the close of business, right as the weekend was getting underway for many in the country.

“On the evening of January 1, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for complications following a recent elective medical procedure,” Ryder said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 202312; 202401; 20240101; austin; defensesecretary; dod; hospital; lloydaustin; media; newyears; secrecy; sinsofomission
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Don’t forget—Eurasia is always at war with EastAsia.

That is why we need a gigantic national security state with millions of top secret and special access programs.

Meanwhile we open the border to invaders and call them “migrants”....


21 posted on 01/06/2024 7:13:50 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Their Kleptocracy)
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To: MPJackal

😆🤣😂


22 posted on 01/06/2024 7:20:49 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: CFW

Evidently, those sex change operations aren’t as easy as they sound. Complications happen.


23 posted on 01/06/2024 7:31:53 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: CFW

Reminds me of the Soviets who used to have a dissenting top ranking comrade go on vacation, then he seemed to be ill, didn’t appear waving to a crowd in the balcony group photo, then he disappeared and his picture and biography were removed.

Soviet peasants, like Americans today, did not have the privilege of knowing anything the government didn’t like them to know.


24 posted on 01/06/2024 8:28:05 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: CFW

He’s not the real Secretary of Defense just a token like so many in the Biden administration.


25 posted on 01/06/2024 8:34:25 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: MinorityRepublican

Everyone in D.C is a Democrat so it was easy for them to be “discreet” about this.
If this was during Trump administration, we’ll find out on Twitter one second after the Secretary of Defense was hospitalized.


No, what would happen is WaPo and the NYSlimes would post stories referencing information from “sources” that Donald Trump nearly beat the guy to death before someone stopped him.


26 posted on 01/06/2024 8:37:12 AM PST by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: steve in DC

Calif announced yesterday that the state will PAY for ILLEGAL INVADERS SEX CHANGE SURGERIES. FOR FREE TO INVADERS


27 posted on 01/06/2024 8:56:34 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: CFW

good place for it, less chance of doing more damage...


28 posted on 01/06/2024 9:48:26 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: McGruff

I think FJB gets ‘hospitalized’ every time he takes a vacay away from the WH. Or at least as a minimum is worked on by non-WH doctors to tune up and adjust his dementia drug cocktails.


29 posted on 01/06/2024 9:50:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: CFW

Why was Congress not notified at the very least?
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The thought that comes to mind is that the hospitalization is covid vax related. How could Austin admit by his hospitalization that the vax he mandated on all his troops was the reason for his hospitalization? It would qualify as true Karma.


30 posted on 01/06/2024 10:16:28 AM PST by iontheball
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To: steve in DC

<>Gender reassignment surgery.<>

Yeah, docs tried to attach a dick.


31 posted on 01/06/2024 12:58:24 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: frank ballenger
Reminds me of the Soviets who used to have a dissenting top ranking comrade go on vacation, then he seemed to be ill, didn’t appear waving to a crowd in the balcony group photo, then he disappeared and his picture and biography were removed.

So what happened to Yevgeny Prigozhin?

32 posted on 01/06/2024 1:03:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: CFW

Not only did the press not know, Biden wasn’t informed.

“Pentagon waited three days to inform White House that the defense secretary was hospitalized in ICU”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secretary-defense-lloyd-austin-hospitalized-middle-east-missions-rcna132612

It has also been revealed that “Deputy Secretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks assumed his Duties and Powers even though she continued her Vacation in Puerto Rico”.

You assume duties as SECDEF and don’t even come home from vacation!?! And how could she be SECDEF if the White House didn’t even know about it? For 4 days she should have reported directly to the President, but he didn’t know?


33 posted on 01/06/2024 1:59:23 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: CFW
Do you want to know what the real "shocker" is?

The Secretary of State went on a trip to the violent Middle East on Thursday while the Secretary of Defense was in the hospital and nobody knew about it!

-PJ

34 posted on 01/06/2024 2:05:21 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ETCM
Now that Blinken is in the Middle East, what happens if the Secretary of State is targeted while the Secretary of Defense is in the ICU and the President is out of the loop?

-PJ

35 posted on 01/06/2024 2:07:11 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: ETCM; Political Junkie Too

Why am I concerned that there is a lot more to this story and we are now being fed a line of b.s. in regards to the entire incident. It apparently took them four days to come up with the minor surgery and hospitalization story. Why? There is nothing abnormal about such a thing. By hiding that info, they have now created a Streisand effect and people are going to be taking a deep dive into his activities over the recent weeks. There has to be something really “interesting” going on.


36 posted on 01/06/2024 2:35:23 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: MPJackal; CFW

No, they discovered that he had a miniscule section of backbone and removed it to ensure he is totally spineless. And probably implanted a Chinese Army control chip to make sure he does what Xi wants.


37 posted on 01/06/2024 2:54:56 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: CFW

At least we can count on Jennifer Griffin to get to the bottom of it. You know the Fox Pentagon correspondent who’s job includes debunking Tucker Carlson.


38 posted on 01/06/2024 3:08:29 PM PST by TBall
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To: CFW; Political Junkie Too
There has to be something really “interesting” going on.

I think you are spot on. Something is/was happening beyond what we are being told. Now some people at the Pentagon are saying (anonymously) that they were told SECDEF was "working from home". There was a considerable cover-up that indicates something very serious (or highly embarrassing) was going on. Now there are a lot of questions being asked.

I'm sure there are very specific Continuity of Operations plans and procedures for even temporary loss of a SECDEF, and people will be asking questions about how they were followed, or ignored.

39 posted on 01/06/2024 3:21:47 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: ETCM
Shades of Al Haig's "I'm in control here."

-PJ

40 posted on 01/06/2024 3:36:29 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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