Scarborough Blames ‘Bumbling and Fumbling’ Hegseth for Deployment Delays and Troop Morale

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SCARBOROUGH: “Yeah, I mean, it's sad and pathetic. He can't figure out what munitions, how many munitions the United States needs to have to go into a war, really pretty one-sided war with Iran. It's not China, it's not Russia, with Iran and can't even plan that out and he's having trouble with these rotations and when he gets caught bumbling and fumbling and failing in a way that no secretary of Defense has ever bumbled, fumbled or failed before. He attacks the media. He says the American hating media. Well, right now he sounds like, like a troop hating secretary of Defense, mocking and ridiculing these people that are giving their all in defense of the United States of America who have stopped their lives and whose families have stopped their lives so they could put on the uniform and defend us all. And he has nothing for them but that, blaming the media or the suggestion that they're not tough enough. I get this from a, an admiral, a retired high-ranking admiral and he sent it to me after he heard us talking about this on Friday. He said, Joe, sailors need certainty, same as anyone else. These days, the date of the departure is uncertain. The date of return, uncertain. Operational tempo is uncertain. That's all on you, Pete Hegseth. They have stayed at a war footing at sea for months on end with no dependable decision making process. Again, that's all on Pete Hegseth.”