‘LEAKERS’:
The US president slammed reports that he questioned his defense chief about the ‘shortage,’ accusing the media of treason and threatening to sue them
US President Donald Trump has lashed out at reports that the US is running short of key munitions in its war with Iran, threatening long prison sentences for officials who leak information about the military’s weapons stocks.Trump on Thursday said that the US had “massive amounts” of ammunition, and that more was being manufactured and shipped to the region, as his frustration over the conflict spilled into a public attack on the media.“Defense companies are building the largest number of plants and factories in our country’s history,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, without providing evidence or details about the specific weapons in question.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, back right, kisses his wife, Jennifer, as US President Donald Trump, front left, concludes speaking in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
His remarks came after a report that he had demanded answers from US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over alleged shortages at a Cabinet meeting on Friday last week at Camp David, the US presidential retreat in Maryland.Trump told Hegseth he felt misled because he believed the problem “had been fixed,” a Washington Post newspaper report said, citing two unnamed sources familiar with the exchange.
