Last weekend, the Biden administration discovered that U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was playing hooky in the intensive care unit at the Walter Reed hospital after he developed complications following a prostate surgery the president didn’t know about. On this episode of The Spectacle podcast, hosts Scott McKay and Melissa Mackenzie discuss the unfolding national security crisis and ask important questions like: Who is really running the show if President Joe Biden can’t even keep track of his senior military staff?

Order Scott’s new book, Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, here.

Read The American Spectator’s commentary: Lloyd Austin’s Dereliction of Duty: Deputy Hicks Vacations; Biden, Blinken, Sullivan Out of Loop and US Secretary of Defense Goes AWOL

Read Scott’s and Melissa’s writing here and here.

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