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Lloyd Austin 911 call reveals aide wanted no ‘lights and sirens’ and a ‘subtle’ ambulance pickup
nypost.com ^ | Published Jan. 16, 2024 | Social Links forCaitlin Doornbos

Posted on 01/17/2024 3:36:39 AM PST by V_TWIN

WASHINGTON – He put the “secret” in “secretary.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took great pains to keep quiet his Jan. 1 medical emergency that landed him in the hospital for two weeks, with an aide asking 911 operators to have an ambulance pick the 70-year-old up without turning on its lights and sirens.

“Can I ask – can the ambulance not show up with lights and sirens?” the staffer said in the recording, first obtained by The Daily Beast, adding: “Um, we’re trying to remain a little subtle.”

The dispatcher agreed to pass on the message, noting that “usually when they turn into a residential neighborhood, they’ll turn them off.”

After Austin was rushed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. in severe pain from a urinary tract infection – a complication from a prostatectomy he had undergone Dec. 22 – he quietly transferred his authority to Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks on Jan. 2 — without telling her or any of his other Pentagon colleagues of the reason behind it.

"Austin also failed to tell the White House that he had transferred his authorities to Hicks, later doing so upon finally notifying President Biden of his hospitalization on Jan. 4."

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Most transparent administration EVAH!
1 posted on 01/17/2024 3:36:39 AM PST by V_TWIN
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To: V_TWIN

I’m not a surgeon, but there is no elective surgery that I’m aware of that going to sideline somebody for three weeks. It’s either not elective or he’s getting something done that requires big changes.


2 posted on 01/17/2024 3:40:21 AM PST by Jonty30 (In a nuclear holocaust, there is always a point in time where the meat is cooked to perfection. )
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To: V_TWIN

Urinary tract infection ?
Sounds more like Lloyd’s new vagina wasn’t up to snuff. Any “woman” could have told Lloyd that Cranberry Juice helps clear up UTIs.


3 posted on 01/17/2024 3:42:56 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: V_TWIN

How do we know the SecDef has been ill, is ill, was/is hospitalized?

We know jack.

And we shouldn’t take Deep State’s word for ANYTHING.


4 posted on 01/17/2024 3:44:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: V_TWIN

No lights and siren equals something to hide. The story of complications during an elective surgery is falling apart.


5 posted on 01/17/2024 3:55:23 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

With many things the left does......chances are we’ll never know the real truth.....as usual just what they want people to know.

As we all know, lying is as easy to these people as breathing.


6 posted on 01/17/2024 3:59:24 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

American citizens need proof of life.


7 posted on 01/17/2024 4:00:12 AM PST by Mashood
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did his aide, knowing situation, inform someone in chain of command? ? ?


8 posted on 01/17/2024 4:04:11 AM PST by avital2 ("n)
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To: V_TWIN

Interesting comments on the article....


9 posted on 01/17/2024 4:08:57 AM PST by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: V_TWIN

something stinks, thank goodness Republican leadership seems unconcerned.


10 posted on 01/17/2024 5:04:22 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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11 posted on 01/17/2024 5:08:05 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: V_TWIN

Why hasn’t he been replaced?? Cuz Biden can’t find a black, female, tranny to do the job?


12 posted on 01/17/2024 5:44:17 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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Don’t think he ever really transferred his power. She would have had to be sworn in.....and it would have had to be entered into the record.


13 posted on 01/17/2024 5:45:32 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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Has anyone stepped down or been fired from taterheads administration?

I can’t think of any.

That would indicate humility and and effort to put the country first and that barrel of snakes is having none of either of those.


14 posted on 01/17/2024 5:47:49 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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Is Austin at Davos...


15 posted on 01/17/2024 5:49:03 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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“ Has anyone stepped down or been fired from taterheads administration?”

That thieving tranny freak at the Dept of Energy and one other I can’t remember right now.

L


16 posted on 01/17/2024 5:51:28 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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Lest anyone wonder why I’m asking, this is from January 2023...

https://www.cityam.com/grant-shapps-to-outline-new-scale-up-vision-for-britain-at-davos-lunch/

Grant Shapps has been the UK’s Defemse Minister since August.


17 posted on 01/17/2024 5:53:50 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Lurker

Oh yeah the luggage stealer......and that took multiple episodes before he got canned......

secdef going off the grid? No biggie /s/


18 posted on 01/17/2024 5:54:44 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: V_TWIN

Are there any photos or video of him post surgery? I’d like to see “proof of life”.


19 posted on 01/17/2024 6:01:27 AM PST by ozarker
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20 posted on 01/17/2024 6:02:39 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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