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The Washington Post reports that at a Cabinet meeting at Camp David last Friday, President Trump confronted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, demanding to know why he’d apparently been misled about the severe shortages of American missiles. Trump thought the problem, in his words, had been fixed. Guess what? It hasn’t. Those shortages, in long-range guided missiles and air-defense interceptors, are a big part of why he’s had to pull back from striking Iran. So how did Hegseth handle it? He pointed the finger at his own deputy and said something like “his fault, sir!” This is the same Pete Hegseth, by the way, who talked Trump into this war in the first place, promising it would be quick and easy. Five months later, his answer was to throw his own deputy under the bus. Well the President got on Truth Social late last night and slipped up a couple of times. He said we have massive amounts of munitions, in quotation marks for some reason, and that more are being, quote, “shipped to the U.S. as needed.” Shipped to us? From where? And then Trump added that the quote, “leakers of these treasonous statements are being hunted down,” and promised long jail sentences. If the stockpiles were really full, they’d just show the receipts and laugh it off. Trump would like nothing more than to do that. Instead, they’re raging, they’re blaming each other, and they’re threatening to jail reporters. When a government reacts to a story like that, the story is almost always true. They’re not angry because it’s false. They’re angry because it’s true, and taking their frustrations out publicly, like a bunch of toddlers. It’s pathetic and it’s humiliating on the world stage and it makes America less safe.