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What recent events highlight Trump's handling of military affairs?
Rotten to the core. There's so much Donald Trump has done over the past 24 hours that is absolutely despicable. I don't want to lose sight of the fact that he claims he wasn't even briefed about the four American soldiers who died in Lithuania yesterday. Donald Trump was holding his Oval Office press conference. He was asked, hey, did Pete Hegseth, your Secretary of Defense, brief you on this?
And Donald Trump cavalierly said, I don't know anything about it and seemed not to even care.
Mr. President, have you been briefed about the soldiers in Lithuania who are missing?
No, I haven't.
What a despicable response. And what are you doing in the day if you are not even being briefed that four American soldiers died? Could you imagine for a moment what this would be like if former President Biden responded that way? Let me brief you, Donald. Four American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have died today.
NATO leader says NATO Secretary General Mark Rutt said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have died, but that he did not yet know the details. Maybe, Donald, that's something that you should be paying attention to instead of announcing another round of tariffs, this time tariffing automobiles across the world and crashing our economy.
How about you care about our veterans? How about you care about our troops? Or are you and Elon Musk too busy with Doge firing veterans, destroying and gutting veterans affairs, engaging in a hostile takeover of our federal government, getting rid of essential services related to Social Security, gutting Medicaid, gutting the Department of Education?
Oh, and by the way, your top Department of Defense officials and national security officials apparently are in text threads giving war plans to a reporter who they included on a chat called the Houthi chat, destroying our national secrets. While, by the way, one of your envoys who was on that chat was in Moscow. More on that in a bit.
But we're also learning that Hegsith Walls, Gabbard, have also their private data and passwords. Easily accessible online, Der Spiegel wrote an incredible article here about how private data and passwords of the senior U.S. security officials were found online. Also, from Daniel Bukaslaw, he explains how Michael Waltz's Venmo was public until moments ago. And it's full of reporters.
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