U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin apologized Thursday for a secret visit to the hospital, during which he appeared to have been missing for several days and admitted he was unable to respond appropriately.
“We didn’t handle this right. I couldn’t handle this right. I should have told the president that I had a cancer diagnosis.” Austin told reporters. on Thursday.
“I should have told my team and the American people. I take full responsibility,” he added. “I apologize to my teammates and the American people.”
As Breitbart News reported, Lloyd Austin hid his hospitalization for several days, causing a huge uproar in Washington.
Washington announced on Sunday that more information trickled out that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had been in a hospital intensive care unit for several days and had not disclosed it to the president, the national security adviser, lawmakers or the public. However, we were still in collective shock.
The revelations cast serious doubts not only on Austin and his judgment, but also on President Joe Biden, especially in the midst of a military conflict between the U.S. military and Iranian-backed proxies, in which the Secretary of Defense announced several days of They also questioned how he didn’t know he was partially incapacitated. The situation in the Middle East is intensifying, and there is a risk of a bigger crisis.
The US warned the Houthis last Thursday to stop targeting US troops and commercial ships in the Red Sea, the same day the US military carried out drone strikes and directed Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. killed someone. Who ordered the strike?
The Pentagon also caused further confusion by not specifying the reason for the defense secretary’s hospitalization, citing “privacy.” Austin issued a statement Saturday acknowledging that he “could have done a better job of ensuring the public had the right information.”
Austin told reporters Thursday that he made a mistake by not telling Biden of his prostate cancer diagnosis, adding that he did not want to burden Biden until he was hospitalized. He maintained that national security was never threatened by his mistakes.
“This news shocked me, but I also know it’s shocked a lot of other people, especially the black community. It was a gut punch,” Austin said. “And frankly, my first instinct was to keep it private.”
“I learned from this experience,” Austin said.
“Having this kind of job means losing some of the privacy that most of us expect,” he says. “The American people have a right to know if their leaders are facing health problems.”
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