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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#LloydAustin #Health #News
His job was covered, first time hearing abt when ppl go to the hospital – so I guess yall have a hotline to report your medical issues to at all the news agencies? And the president – yall living in a simulation alright…
How can the Biden administration not know that the Secretary of Defense went missing for 3 days. ????
Completely incompetent Biden administration.
His boss has been out for three years so what’s the big Deal ?🤷🏻♂️🙏🏼🙏🏼 pray for our republic .
shameful
So now Johnson has turned rino and sold us out like McCarthy did
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Let’s hope he doesn’t make it
Smells off 0:47
0:59 whoa
When you suddenly get sick and end up in the ICU you don’t always have a chance to get permission ahead of time.
We’re talking about days. A week? Make excuses. You probably voted for these tyrants.
Well, nobody needs to be accountable with this administration. I don’t get why anybody cares about this. If you have medical issues, then retire for god’s sake! You are no good to us.
“tokens’ don’t matter to racist U S imperialists…😢
Austin had a nervous breakdown
One military soldier and officer’s AWOL… Lol…. Woooh. Court Marshall with the Joint Chiefs. Nice 👍
He is a traitor to our country
Certainly there is a policy and procedure in place for this.
His present is just wasting taxpayer dollars.
Is this the same guy i saw in u.n who vetoed ?
DIVERSITY hire
Are you serious? The last administration didn’t had any transparency and republicans lie to our face everyday. He should face consequences just like them. I can’t believe the hypocrisy.
old joe said the adults are back in charge
Just imagine if this happened under President Trump, they would be trying to impeach him. Of course they tried to impeach him for picking up a pen.
Wow people starving and yall are worried if someone goes to the hospital wow what a world we live in
Who’s starving?
@@amarreder6241 thousands of people in America
I don’t think so
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OK
Trump and his cronies did worse. Go and bark up their rear end. lol
“Weekend at Lloyd’s”
IS HE STILL A HE?
https://youtu.be/y7DCCLsxdrU?si=eyd5IA6PVkzhGoN3
Israel war crimes
There has never been a more incompetent administration. Just pathetic
GENDER REASSIGNMENT surgery can get complicated, and the U.S. government is now funding such, maybe he wanted his surgery before retirement?
Pretty good reporting!! 👍🏼
The least Biden knows, the better it is for everyone.
By the way, after the elective surgery, what pronoun will he be using?
Winkin, blinkin and NOD😂😂😂😂😂
He has “resumed his full duties” from his hospital bed? What!
I’d rather avoid another John Ashcroft event. Trying to get an incapacitated person to sign off on secret surveillance of citizens.
Dead man is unable to talk and and to report for duties. News medias reports the facts and stop the bs.
He is DEI so nobody cares 😅😅😅
This administration is an absolute circus. DEI mentality has turned this government into a SNL skit.
Americans worry about the dumbest things
Jumping ship like milley ,steps down retirement pension bits of work for the networks. They buried Colin Powell with full military honours remember.
How about this spin.. they all knew but kept it under wraps as not to be a national security threat. we dont know the circumstances and as such, if its a deeper situation then we are not allowing our enemies to know the situation either. people have a way of forgetting what we the people know so does our enemies.
These Democrats strive to do everything bad.
Got position because of colour, once a liar always a lair
Does anyone feel safe? This incompetent adm.has really crossed the red line on this crap with Austin.
isnt he the one taht said if u attack us china i phone u k .
they all just get a cheq ,like them all.. none work at all. in gov.
Only communists hide the medical conditions of their installed leaders. He’s a full blown Marxist
Anyone ask how he doing? Used be first thing come people’s mind.
Hows the country doing should be the first thing that comes to their minds!
He doesn’t think we need to know, so why ask him squat!
The problem is, no one knows who’s in charge. Like a rudderless ship floundering in the ocean!
The Secretary of Defense must have very few and minor duties if he can perform them fully while sick in the hospital.
He PUT HICKS in charge. But hicks was in Puerto Rico on VACATION and the White House sec was in bed with the flu so Biden never got told what a joke. It took them 3 days to find HICKS no one knew she was on vacation .
We have no right to know? Secretive government, be scared , be very scared !
Stinken Blinken wasn’t aware 😮
bleachin that butthole caused an itch
Maybe he’s transitioning and had his member cut off.
This incompetence is what we get when voting blue!
Gee… it’s almost like they feel it’s not important to tell Biden… sort of like he’s not actually in charge of anything…. hmmm…
Oh great our government has given away all the trillions they asked for and they ask for more!
Why did Joe use Americas last penny to help secure Ukraines border? Democrats have put America last and are accountable for Americas bankruptcy.
TRUMP: 4 YEARS OF PEACE IN UKRAINE AND ISRAEL/GAZA/ME.
BIDEN: WAR AND WAR/WAR/WAR, DEFENSE SEC AWOTB(AWAY WITHOUT TELLING BIDEN) FOR THREE DAYS.
Democrats…..did you see Trump’s latest indictment?
Pentagon not telling Biden, do they not want him to know or is that SOP for this administration? I wonder if Hillary and Obama knew, Schummer, Pelosi?
Try skipping out of work for four days for an undisclosed reason and see what happens.
Self commitment for mental issues could be considered ‘elective’…..transgender surgery? reaction to hormone treatment?
Why is this man’s medical issues anybody’s business.
Gaza wishes him a speedy recovery.
Did the surgical team count sponges last week?
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.
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!!!
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 .
Maybe he doesn’t know who his boss is? Sad America today
If a Captain of a US Navy Ship did this what would happen to that Captain? Please ell me.
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?
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.
WHO TF IS RUNNING THIS 💩SHOW? IS ANYONE EVER ACCOUNTABLE IN THIS CRIMINALLY INCOMPETENT ADMINISTRATION.
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.
ITS NOT UP TO THE PERSON IN ICU TO NOTIFY ANYONE!!!😡😡😡😡HOW LOW CAN YOU GET!👿👿👿👿👿👿
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.
Zo maar even verdwenen 😂😂
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
Typical irresponsible hazardous Democrat right there. We need a new president NOW!!!!
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!!!!!
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.
Wishing for medical privacy is one thing, and absolutely fair. However, just as you mentioned about private citizens having rights to that privacy, a private citizen also has to report to their boss when they’ll be unable to attend to their job or they are risking punishment or possible firing. At my husband’s job, no call no show gets you 4 points, and getting 8 points means you’re fired. You don’t necessarily need to say why you won’t be in, but simply not showing up and not telling your boss is irresponsible. Just like the rest of us, this man isn’t immune to repercussions of his actions.
Israel stress taking its toll on him
Libs?
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.
Sec. of Defense goes AWOL. Biden: “Come on, man. It was just four days”.
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
Just incompetence, 3 years in, and no one knows what to do…
Pieces of textures ………. nuts by see pieces of sheet
EXACTLY.
Its is NOT a personal issue, its a SECURITY issue.
For someone in this position and NOT UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE,
MUST be removed.
The same who give away Americas military in Afghanistan, are the same who give away Americas future to Ukraine. Democrats are accountable.
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
What a DISASTER!!! Where are tax money go??????????
Afghanistan..this man is incompetent and losing lives because of it.
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
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
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
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..
Most Americans don’t care. Most can’t even name a Cabinet member.
With all the BS with Biden administration this must STOP. RFK for 2024!!!!
Has the secretary been secretly transitioning, and going for an extended stay for the final procedures??🤔
So let me get this straight. I get it Lloyd Austin should have been more transparent about going to the hospital. But I don’t understand all the outrage directed at him over a communication issue. The people so outraged at Austin are the same people who seem to don’t care that our former president had top secret documents at an unsecured location that could have compromised our nation security.
They’re all a bunch of liers
Every last one