Trump erupts at Hegseth over empty missile shelves
Trump confronted his defense secretary at Camp David, furious he'd been misled about the weapons stockpile. The damage is real: 850+ Tomahawks, 1,000+ Patriot and THAAD interceptors, 1,300+ tactical ballistic missiles all fired in the first month. ATACMS gone. Between late February and April, the US unleashed 13,000 strikes on Iran and defended against 8,500 incoming munitions.
Replacements take up to two years to build. There's no magic switch.
Leavitt is already calling the whole thing fake news. But the actual scandal isn't the blame game between Hegseth and Feinberg. It's that five months into an active war, the president is only now finding out the cupboard is bare. That's catastrophic management, full stop.
The White House denial just confirms it reached him as a shock.
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