Joe Scarborough was off from Morning Joe on Thursday — but still managed to deliver a hot take that’s sure to get people talking in Washington and beyond.
In a fiery post on X on Thursday, Scarborough sounded off about the blockbuster Washington Post report about President Donald Trump clashing at Camp David with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over what The Post characterized as “extreme munitions shortages that now threaten to limit military options with Iran.”
Scarborough called it an “unforgivable blunder” compounded by Hegseth’s refusal to acknowledge the shortage.
“When Hegseth attacks media questions on this extreme munitions shortage as “fake news,” he makes this unforgivable blunder worse,” Scarborough wrote. “Congress needs to take action. Americans need the truth. Hegseth can’t give it. He needs to go.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt flatly denied the story shortly after it was published Wednesday night.
“I was at Camp David with President Trump and Secretary Hegseth. This literally never happened, and we told the Washington Post that repeatedly,” Leavitt wrote on X. “This B.S. story was shopped to many outlets by someone clearly out to disparage the Secretary, for whatever reason. Unfortunately for them, the President loves the Secretary and thinks he’s doing a tremendous job. FAKE NEWS!”
Hegseth’s chief spokesman, Sean Parnell, echoed Leavitt’s denial.
“We told the Washington Post the same thing,” Parnell wrote on X. “They ran with the fake, anonymously sourced BS anyway. Complete & total Fake News.”
But those denials were complicated by a Truth Social post from President Trump shortly after midnight Thursday — in which he acknowledged there were “leakers” in his midst.
“The U.S. has massive amounts of ‘munitions,’ especially of certain types,” Trump wrote. “Additionally, large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed. Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history. The ‘leakers’ of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!”
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