President Trump continues to say that Iran wants to make a deal to end the war and that the U.S. has control over the Strait of Hormuz. Meanwhile, the president downplayed concerns about the conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde and New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker join Stephanie Ruhle with more details and analysis.
  • Deebster@infosec.pub
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    24 days ago

    … sailors who are out on these boats for twelve months at a time and we are unable to resupply them. Why? Because Pete Hegseth hid the fact that Iran destroyed the main supply base that the United States has in the Gulf. He did not make that public in press conference after press conference.

    So it’s just the public that was kept in the dark and Trump, etc are in the know?

    The phrasing is a bit odd - it kinda seems that Hegseth’s hiding of that news is why they couldn’t resupply, not the destruction itself.

    I found an article covering the destruction of NSA Bahrain (the base in question).

    • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
      2·
      24 days ago

      Trump will claim he didn’t know, Hegseth will take the fall.

      It’ll then come out years later that there’s plenty of evidence that Trump was well informed of the act or even demanded it himself.

      So it goes with the orange clown running the US despotcracy.