Priya Sridhar: Families Say They Felt ‘Extremely Abandoned’ by Trump Administration

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SRIDHAR: “Yeah, absolutely. Kathryn, I can say that I received so many text messages when cheung cao first posted that on social media, and we subsequently saw Sean Parnell, also the chief spokesperson for the Pentagon, also tweeting, and then also secretary of defense Pete Hegseth himself. They all had very similar messaging, blaming the media, of course, for characterizing these family members and these service members as victims. And I would say the overall, if I were to paraphrase the emotions of the family members that I’ve spoken to about all of that was they feel honestly as though they’re being gaslit, but at the same time, they’re so excited to hear this news about the Washington moving into the Middle East, which is going to potentially relieve the Lincoln. So they want to focus on that piece of news right now."