The Asst. Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh gave us a nice blizzard of words when asked about Sec Def Austin and him essentially going MIA.
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They do have frequent communications. I will tell you and
I can reassure you our staffs, our teams are in
constant communication with each other, and the Secretary is You
will not meet someone that works harder than the Secretary
of Defense. Again, he has a short forty year service
here in the military. He prides himself on the fact
that he has been able to serve his country. He
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is in touch with his team here at the Pentagon,
with the White House monitoring everything that's going on around
the world, and right now he's focused on getting better,
focused on returning to work, but is able to keep
in touch with the White House.
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That is a great technique if you'd ever like to
respond to a true accusation, hit everybody with such a
blizzard of words and different topics that they think, I
don't even know where to begin with that. Never mind.
She's responding to the question, I'm sorry this Pentagon Press
Secretary Sabrina Singh. She's the under assistant deputy assistant under
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deputy Press Secretary. Depending on responding to the question, hey,
what gives with the sec deef being like incommunicado in
the hospital for a week and nobody having any idea
and she unleashed that blizzard of words, saying, essentially, well,
he has his team, and his team's in touch, and
his team's in touch with our team, and their team's
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in touch with our team as well, and everybody's team
is in touch. It's just it's so clearly untrue. Sprinkling in,
he's served for forty years. I don't doubt that he's
a hard working man. I don't doubt that all that stuff.
I just I don't know. You just get tired of it,
don't you. I think they've probably done the studies and realized, Yeah,
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dishonesty works better than honesty in politics, so we'll go
with dishonesty. That's the only thing I can come up with.
I mean, because can you imagine in private enterprise, in
your office or your relationships or whatever, if you're that
full of crap, Honey, you didn't come home from the
bar last night. Well, I've had the opportunity to serve
this fan for twenty seven years now, and nobody works
harder at serving the family than me, and my team
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is constantly in touch with your team, Honni, and blah
blah blah, none of which changed the fact that you
didn't come home from the bar last night. But you
just keep babbling with that work in any setting other
than government, Nope, Armstrong and Yetti
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