Dem. Rep. from blue state puts Austin on blast, said he would fire Defense Sec. ‘in five minutes’

A Democrat in deep-blue Massachusetts said Friday that if he had been President Biden, he would fire Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “in about five minutes” following his lack of transparency surrounding his hospital keep and surgical procedure to take away most cancers.

“I would fire him in about five minutes,” Rep. Seth Moulton, D-MA, instructed NewsNation on Friday.

Moulton, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that the scandal over Austin’s failure to promptly notify key officers in the Biden administration of his hospitalization was “completely unacceptable.”

“I can’t imagine that happening at the lowest levels of the military chain of command, like where I was, as a mere lieutenant platoon commander in Iraq,” Moulton said. “I can’t even imagine it happening when I was a 15-year-old busboy. If I was going to be out for a week, I had to tell my boss.”

DEFENSE SEC. LLOYD AUSTIN IN ‘GOOD CONDITION’ AS HOSPITALIZATION APPROACHES TWO-WEEK MARK: PENTAGON OFFICIALS

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) questions Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley throughout a House Armed Services Committee listening to July 9, 2020 on “Department of Defense Authorities and Roles Related to Civilian Law Enforcement,” in Washington, DC. (GREG NASH/POOL/AFP by way of Getty Images)

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized this month after struggling extreme ache following an elective process to deal with his prostate most cancers. (Ian Waldie/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)

The Democratic lawmaker said that whereas it is the president’s choice whether or not to maintain Austin as the pinnacle of the Pentagon, Biden must “send a decisive message.”

“It’s up to the president as to whether he fires Secretary Austin, but I tell you what, he needs to send a decisive message that this is never gonna happen again,” Moulton added.

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Moulton said he felt “terrible for Secretary Austin and his family” and wished the secretary a swift restoration.

“But what’s most essential is that America will get the nationwide safety that it wants, and its troops get the supervision that they want,” he said. “That’s the secretary’s job.”

President Joe Biden speaks throughout a gathering of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council within the Indian Treaty Room of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)

President Biden has continued to face behind Austin amid his hospital keep, saying that he nonetheless has confidence within the protection secretary’s management.

During a go to to small companies outdoors Allentown, Pennsylvania on Friday, Biden answered “yes” when requested by reporters if it was a lapse in judgment for Austin to not inform him about his situation.

When a reporter requested him if he nonetheless has confidence in Austin’s management following his hospitalization debacle, Biden replied, “I do.”

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin participates in a gathering with Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on the Pentagon on June 23, 2023 in Arlington, Virginia.  (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Austin, 70, stays hospitalized as he is being handled for issues following prostate most cancers surgical procedure.

The Pentagon publicly revealed on Jan. 5 that Austin had been within the hospital since Jan. 1 attributable to issues from elective surgical procedure. 

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But it was later revealed that not solely was the media stored at nighttime, the very best ranges of the White House and prime officers within the Pentagon itself weren’t conscious till Jan. 4 that Austin was within the hospital.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks throughout a plenary session on the nineteenth International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, Asia’s annual protection and safety discussion board, in Singapore, Saturday, June 11, 2022.  (AP Photo/Danial Hakim)

The non-disclosure prompted a flurry of bipartisan concern, with prime Democrats and Republicans on the House and Senate Armed Services committees calling for extra transparency concerning the incident.

Austin’s hospital keep started on New Year’s Day.

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Details of his go to stay slim, past that he was there for an elective process.

Rep. Seth Moulton’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to Fox News Digital’s request for remark.