A new revelation about the controversy of the hospitalization of the Secretary of Defense of the United States

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, the controversy of concealing the illness and hospitalization of American Defense Minister Lloyd Austin, which led to the request for his removal, is still going on, and Reuters news agency based on the audio provided to He reported that in the call to take him to the hospital on New Year’s Day with 911 (the emergency number in the United States), an ambulance was requested to be quietly present at his residence.

Austin’s assistant, whose name has been removed from this audio, says in the mentioned call, “Is it possible that the ambulance will not show up with lights and sirens on?” We are trying to be a little inconspicuous.”

Transfer Austin to the military medical center Walter Reed and his hospitalization remained a secret for days from everyone, including his boss Joe Biden and even his deputy Kathleen Hicks.

He stayed in the hospital for two weeks due to complications from prostate surgery on December 22, which was also kept secret, and on Monday He returned home to Virginia.

Austin’s cover-up sparked a political uproar, with Republicans accusing America’s first black defense secretary of dereliction of duty.

Some prominent Republicans like Donald Trump even called for Austin’s removal; A request that the President of the United States did not support and said that he trusts his defense minister.

According to Reuters, it is not yet clear why the 70-year-old Austin decided to tell senior US government officials about his cancer and post-surgery complications even when he needed to be hospitalized. did not inform The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office said this month it would begin a review of Austin’s hospitalization.

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