Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s three-day stay in the hospital was a closely guarded secret. So closely guarded, in fact, that the Pentagon did not alert President Joe Biden or Austin’s second in command about his ailment.

Austin was reportedly dealing with complications following an elective medical procedure.

“The president doesn’t need to know, you know, ‘cause he’s not making the decisions,” Glenn Beck jokes.

Meanwhile, we’re simultaneously engaged in two theaters of war.

“I believe the Iranians are still launching rockets at our ships. Was there no time in the last seven days where somebody was like, ‘You know what? Let’s call the Pentagon,’” Glenn says.

Austin was even brought into the Intensive Care Unit while the deputy secretary of defense, who was to assume the defense secretary’s responsibilities, was on vacation in Puerto Rico.

“So, for days she was the acting secretary of defense, but she didn’t even know it,” Glenn says.

“You almost understand that they wouldn’t tell Biden, because you know, he’s out of it, but how do people in the Pentagon not know?” Stu Burguiere says in agreement.

Stu believes this is quite telling of just how defunct our government is.

“How are we not recognizing that statement is a massive problem? That the American people are actually in a position where they think it’s normal that the president of the United States just is so out of it, they wouldn’t tell him that the secretary of defense was in ICU?” Stu exclaims.

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