At the beginning of January, Lloyd Austin goes into the hospital. The US President only found out about this days later. With Republicans in particular fueling rumors that Austin could be out of office, Biden feels compelled to stand behind his staffer. The question remains: what was going on?
A man who is not insignificantly responsible for US security has been lying in a military hospital on the outskirts of Washington since the beginning of the year. On January 1, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was reported to have been taken by ambulance to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The Pentagon reassured him on Monday that his condition was good and that he was carrying out his official business. Details, however, are not public, and America is wondering why even Commander-in-Chief Joe Biden apparently didn’t know about it at first.