When things blow up in Donny’s face he turns to his stand-by excuse….blame the media….and so it is with the problems on the USS Lincoln….
Over the past week, Pentagon officials launched a broadside against reports of dire conditions on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, which has been deployed in the Middle East for more than eight months.
Less than 24 hours after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth first criticized reporting about the Lincoln as “completely misrepresented,” a seemingly coordinated messaging campaign spread across the Pentagon’s social media apparatus. At least six senior Pentagon and Navy officials and spokespeople, along with official department accounts, published or amplified substantially similar attacks on the reporting across X and Facebook.
Recent reporting by Military Times and Stars and Stripes has drawn significant national attention to alarming conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 3 operating under the U.S. 5th Fleet.
Reporting by Natalie Oliverio, a Navy veteran and award-winning journalist, documented concerns from service members and their families about suicide attempts, inadequate food, shortages of basic hygiene products, and deteriorating sanitation conditions aboard the carrier.
The concerns have since drawn coverage from CNN, NPR and other national news organizations.
U.S. Central Command subsequently placed Oliverio’s reporting prominently in an infographic declaring that “multiple media outlets have reported several false claims” about the Lincoln. While five other reports displayed in the graphic were labeled “FALSE,” Oliverio’s reporting was labeled “MISINFORMED.”
On Aug. 14, Hegseth accused the “reckless & shameless ‘American’ media” of “completely & intentionally” misrepresenting the situation on the Lincoln, later referring to “fake, America-hating news.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/uss-abraham-lincoln-news/
That is their answer to any facts that puts them in the spotlight…..Donny and the slime ball Pistol Pete care nothing for the men and women that service and protect this nation.
The only shame is what these fools are doing to our troops….they deserve better than the morons that run their lives and the suck ups that command them.
I believe the horror stories….do you?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
It’s disgusting how they’ve downplayed it! I’m convinced that this administration is full of abusers. The blame-shifting, the DARVO, and the gaslighting—all signs of psychological abuse.
THat has a name…propaganda…..chuq
I kmow people in the military so yeah, I absolutely believe the reports. It isn’t just the navy. All the services are suffering, Coast Guard, Army, National Guard, Marines… You should see the horror stories about housing for army families. Those go back decades already and nothing has been done to fix them.
Some of this comes down to Congress continuing to fund high tech, big ticket, show off weapons systems that don’t actually work, at the expense of maintaining basic services that the actual real soldiers need to do their jobs or even just live normal lives. Drop billions on ships that don’t actually work? You bet. That gives congress members chances to get their pictures taken launching ships or posing at ribbon cuttings, etc. But fully fund warehouses, a supply chain to deliver food, etc? No PR value in that so we can cut that budget.
Anyone remember when Trump was blaming the media for Covid? He actually said that if the media stopped reporting on the Covid pandemic it would just go away and no one would get sick any more.
When I was in the Army the soldiers were the most important thing….food was bearable but plentiful, housing was sparse but in fine shape and your point about PR tells the tale if anyone wants to know…..chuq
The reports originated from those serving on the aircratft carrier contacting relatives and friends back in America to tell them what was happening. So I 100% believe those sailors, aircrew, and marines.
Best wishes, Pete.
Me too I remember some photos they took and sent hope and the families gave them to the press….another sad indictment of the Trump years….chuq