“TURNED A BLIND EYE!” Mark Kelly BLASTS Trump, Hegseth for Ignoring USS Abraham Lincoln Problems

I said, well, I say it all the time. I say ---- he doesn't like all the time. But I said that members of the military shouldn't follow illegal orders. But we're trained that. It was a friendly reminder. In response to the friendly reminder, Donald Trump said I should be hanged, executed, prosecuted. He couldn't even get the order right. And then he tried to indict me and throw me in jail. But here's the thing. That wasn't about me. It was about all of us. He wants to silence you. he doesn't want people speaking truth to power he doesn't want people speaking out especially veterans i think veterans intimidate him i think there's a there's something there insecurity about the veteran community and that's why he says they're suckers and losers because he didn't serve it's great to be with veterans and i have to say this is a challenging time uh for our military uh not really like anything we've seen before in my view the guy that donald trump appointed to be secretary of defense clearly unqualified for the job and the results are pretty apparent right now uh firing very qualified admirals and generals running around on a stage talking about killing people and lethality and testosterone we don't need more testosterone in the u.s military we need better leadership on top of that on top of that we had president take this country to war without a strategic goal without a plan without a timeline without an exit strategy and now he's stuck he doesn't know what to do I sit on the Armed Services and the Intelligence Committee both and I will say when I know about this the Iranians weren't any closer to developing a nuclear weapon this year than they were when I first got to the United States Senate in 2020. And it's this president who, by the way, tore up the deal in 2018 that started them to enrich the uranium at a higher level. So if you think there was a problem, this president created the problem. But he didn't need to go to war and put Americans in harm's way. We have now 20 deceased service members, over 800 injured. And what did the American people get out of it they got nothing they got higher gas prices they got higher food prices uh we've got service members deployed for record numbers of days on the USS Abraham Lincoln and i understand going on cruise can be hard and it's challenging but really they had eight service members who tried to commit suicide because of the conditions aboard the ship and i got to tell you the worst thing about that, by far, for me, was to see the Secretary of Defense go straight to camera and say, there's no problem, and we give commanders everything they need. That is not leadership. Leadership has taken some responsibility for whatever the situation is. And by the way, how hard would it have been for him to say, hey, I recognize there's a problem. We're going to look into the problem and we're going to make things better for these service members because they deserve that it's not hard to do this secretary of defense was incapable of doing that on top of it the president of the United States followed it up with saying well the deployment wasn't long enough i mean how insensitive insensitive is that i mean here's a guy who a president who i think he got five draft deferments calls service members who die serving their countries what it says on his hat suckers and losers goes to arlington and says that deceased service members who pay the ultimate price i think his comment was well what did they get out of it he doesn't understand us doesn't understand service to this country doesn't understand sacrifice doesn't understand doing something that is bigger than self we have an opportunity to put all that behind us and also provide some accountability subscribe to one india and never miss an update download the one india app