Transcripts. Bannon War Room. Biden Administration Broke Vacancy Laws. Jeff Clark Breaks Down Lloyd Austin & Secret Absence. January 8, 2024.
Topic. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Absence. Guest. Jeff Clar. January 8, 2024.
Transcripts from Bannon’s War Room on Rumble: Biden Administration Broke Vacancy Laws | Jeff Clark Breaks Down Lloyd Austin's Secret Absence
January 8, 2024.
Steve Bannon
Jeff Clark, without getting too technical of you know, 32 chapter C walk through the structure, the legal structure of what we have and the violations of that, Sir.
Jeff Clark
Before I do some law, Steve, let me do a couple of extra facts, right. So, the president didn't know about this until January 4th, three days into this emergency hospital stay while Austin's in ICU. Blinken didn't know about it. Jake Sullivan didn't know about it. It's totally inexcusable. And then you come to find out that the Deputy Secretary of Defense was on vacation in Puerto Rico during this time.
And they didn't even tell her why she was assuming some of his duties. And that's a problem in and of itself. You can't just deal with some of the duties being devolved upon the deputy, you know the 1st principal officer. You got to deal with all of them. And so there was a gap at the very least. And then they talked to the chief of staff and the chief of staff was out sick. So now they're trying to deflect blame on to her and say she was the one who failed to tell the White House. I mean, it's truly an absurd situation.
Okay, so as a matter of law, the Vacancies Reform Act has been violated, Steve. And that has a provision in it that requires whenever there is a head of an agency, especially a cabinet officer and especially one as important as the Secretary of Defense that each House of Congress and the Comptroller General be informed. That did not happen until Friday. That happened just before the Pentagon released a press statement in the evening on Friday the 5th.
So, this is a situation where a flat law of the United States was violated. And I know that what they might say in response to that is, well, that's really for situations where someone's resigned or died. But the statute is very clear and says that it applies whenever someone is essentially incapable of carrying out the duties of the office for any reason. So, this is a black letter violation of the Vacancies Reform Act and what can Congress do if it doesn't even know about this situation? It's a complete violation of law. It's a travesty.
Steve Bannon
Jeff, before I go to Frank, I got Frank Gaffney, General Boykin and Colonel Harvey.
Clark. The actual the National Command Authority is a I guess the details of it are behind are classified. We don't really know. We do know the only two people that can launch are the commander in chief and the Secretary of Defense at his direction on an execution of that order, but we don't really know many of the details because it's not available to the public?
Jeff Clark
That's right. And but Steve, look what we do know is that the two people who have authority in the nuclear chain, you know, consistent with civilian control of the military, and you have to ask questions about whether that's really actually occurring here or instead you're dealing with the situation where the military is running itself, which is unconstitutional in our governments design are the President and the Secretary of Defense.
So, if Lloyd Austin is AWOL, and that's really what he is, right? And I'm sure he's court martialed or overseeing court martials of soldiers who've gone AWOL, he was AWOL. This is something where he should be fired immediately by the President of the United States in the President of the United States being kept in the dark about it also raises obviously serious concerns about the competency of the President of the United States. There's an even bigger factual question here, right? That this has clearly been going on for longer than this, right? He's in the hospital now in the ICU, from complications from elective surgery.
On December 22nd, he apparently entered the hospital first to have the surgery before he then had to go back after the complications. Well, he probably was placed under anesthesia for that. Was Congress notified about that, both houses and the Comptroller was the president told about that? or basically just the staffers over there, running their own operation and deciding what the President needs to know. It's in a situation that cannot be tolerated, has to be explored by Congress extensively and heads do need to roll like one of those national security officials said in one of your cold open clips.
Steve Bannon
Trump is a basis, by the way, that was from Bloomberg. That's liberal, progressive, that's Bloomberg's network. They hate Trump, and they're sitting there, going heads got to roll. Trump is a center of stability, the Biden is Jack. Just laid out is nothing but chaos, chaos and anarchy and making up as you go along. Jeff, how do people get to you over at the CRA?
Jeff Clark
Sure. So, the center is America Renewing.com. I'm at Jeff ClarkUS on getter and Twitter and at Real Jeff Clark on Truth Social Steve.
Steve Bannon
Thank you, brother. You guys do amazing work. You and Palieto with the whole team. In fact, Russ Voight is going to join us here shortly talking about this debacle on the budget.
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