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  1. The Answer Is No: SCOTUS Refuses to Hear Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Bid to Avoid Death Penalty https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/10/19/the-answer-is-no-sco…khalid-sheikh-mohammeds-bid-to-avoid-death-penalty-n2208349
    the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, has been trying to get a controversial 2024 plea deal restored after then-Pentagon chief Lloyd … Austin rescinded it just days after the ridiculous bargain was struck.The Supreme Court basically said Monday that it is not happening … Circuit which found that Austin had the authority to rescind the deals.The Supreme Court just slammed the door on the accused 9/11…
  2. Hegseth: Every Warrior Now Gets October Stand-Down Day to Vote https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/10/02/hegseth-every-warrior-now-gets-october-stand-down-day-to-vote-n2207665
    In fact, in February of 2021, under the Biden administration, then-Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, mandated an urgent training stand-down …  Compare this to Lloyd Austin's weak-kneed "extremism" stand-down, which he reportedly had been planning for some time. … Austin, the first invertebrate to serve as Secretary of Defense, wanted to stand down training to look for "extremists," which he apparently…
  3. Oh Yes, He Went There: Hegseth Torches Pentagon's Focus on Woke in Speech Leftists Will Hate https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/10/01/oh-yes-he-went-there…entagons-focus-on-woke-in-speech-leftists-will-hate-n2207611
    show.I’m guessing former President Barack Obama, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, and former Pentagon Chief Lloyd … Austin threw their shoes at their TVs when they heard this one (if they even bothered to watch):We are no longer the woke department…
  4. As Pete Hegseth Honors Abbey Gate Heroes, NYT Launches Bizarre Hit Piece Targeting Him https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/08/27/as-pete-hegseth-hono…es-the-nyt-launches-bizarre-hit-piece-targeting-him-n2206166
    orders of the Biden administration, presumably because recognizing heroism on that day would point a condemning finger of guilt at Lloyd … Austin and his inner circle, (see 'Had to Be Ordered to Stand Down': DoW Honors 'Valor' of Marines Who Defended Abbey Gate – RedState…
  5. The DNC Just Went Full DSA — and This Vote Proves It https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/08/15/this-dnc-vote…hat-a-dsa-takeover-of-the-democrat-party-looks-like-n2205644
    inviting a not-so-hostile takeover by the socialists.This was made abundantly clear Saturday as the DNC met for its summer meeting in Austin … Lloyd Doggett thinks embracing policies like abolishing the police, prisons, and borders are a “path to victory.”Far-Left Democrat…
  6. Sec. of War: Pentagon Now Led by Warriors, Not Washington Bureaucrats https://redstate.com/wardclark/2026/07/21/secretary-of-war-p…agon-now-led-by-warriors-not-washington-bureaucrats-n2204598
    @SECWAR "I don’t know what Lloyd Austin did for four years. … I don't know what Lloyd Austin did for four years. I really don't.…
  7. New: Pete Hegseth Cooks Dems and Their 'Hypocrisy' in Fiery Senate Hearing Testimony https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/07/21/hegseth-testimony-before-senate-n2204606
    Hegseth termed the negligence "staggering," saying he didn't know what the prior Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, had done.…
  8. Pete Hegseth Halting the Suspension of 8 Apache Pilots Set the Right Tone for an Effective Military https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/07/11/pete-hegseths-haltin…pilots-set-the-right-tone-for-an-effective-military-n2204222
    Just as he was criticized for pulling proponents of the Lloyd Austin military off promotion lists, he would've been damned as a hypocrite…
  9. The Distasteful and Unseemly Calls and Jokes for 'Proof of Life' on Mitch McConnell Should Stop https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2026/07/09/calls-and-jokes-for-proof-of-life-on-mitch-mcconnell-are-distasteful-n2204155
    This is why the 2024 disappearance of President Joe Biden's Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was dangerous and especially egregious … Austin was hospitalized for five days for treatment of prostate cancer, but didn't bother to inform the White House that this was happening … What made it even worse is that Kathleen Hicks, the Deputy Secretary of Defense who should have taken up the reins while Austin was…
  10. The Reaction to GEN Donahue's Firing Indicates Hegseth's Action Was Correct and Timely https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/06/26/hegseth-fired-donahue-n2203762
    Generals and admirals associated with the corrupt policies of the Lloyd Austin era have been removed.…
  11. Morning Minute: Defense or War...I'll Take the Sec Who Looks Ready to Roll https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/04/27/morning-minute-n2201728
     And then I was reminded of one of the iconic images of his predecessor, Lloyd Austin.…
  12. Biden's Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal Is About to Get a Full Reckoning, Sean Parnell Reveals https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2026/04/17/parnell-statement-on-afghan-withdrawal-review-panel-n2201387
    Austin was far too "narrow in scope." … Central Command;▪General Austin S. Miller, USA (Ret.), former Commander, U.S. … By contrast, the previous Department-wide review commissioned under former Secretary Lloyd Austin examined around 3,000 documents and…
  13. Pete Hegseth Gives the Army Chief of Staff His Walking Papers https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/04/02/pete-hegseth-gives-the-army-chief-of-staff-his-walking-papers-n2200915
    He had previously served as the military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin from 2021 to 2022.…
  14. If You're Only Watching the Iran War, You're Missing Trump's Larger Strategy https://redstate.com/andrewmalcolm/2026/03/08/trump-has-more-going-on-in-iran-than-meets-the-eye-n2199973
    expected it to take only weeks.In another little-noticed connection, early in the Ukraine invasion’s first year, Defense Secretary Lloyd … Austin said publicly that a major reason for U.S. support of Ukraine’s defense efforts was to see Russia "weakened to the degree that…
  15. RedState Weekly Briefing: Snubs at the White House, Strikes in Iran, Justice in Phoenix https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2026/03/01/redstate-weekly-briefing-n2199712
    The services are recovering the professionalism destroyed by Lloyd Austin, and the cultural rot is being excised.…
  16. Pete Hegseth Comes Under Fire for Meeting the Standards He Demands of Others. Yes, You Read That Right https://redstate.com/streiff/2026/02/22/pete-hegseth-comes-u…ndards-he-demands-of-others-yes-you-read-that-right-n2199449
    The services are recovering the professionalism destroyed by Lloyd Austin, and the cultural rot is being excised.…
  17. Lloyd Austin’s COVID Tyranny Continues As Shadow Policy at the Department of War https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2026/01/30/lloyd-austins-c…id-tyranny-continues-as-pete-hegseths-shadow-policy-n2198517
    those charged to enforce the law sometimes make themselves the law, to no consequence.During his tenure as Secretary of Defense, Lloyd … Austin abandoned his oath of office as a retired military officer and embarked on a mission to radicalize America’s military. … Secretary Austin aimed to purge people who love America and its founding ideals from the ranks.…
  18. Dec. 31 Deadline Looms for Brig. Gen. Christopher Sage As Dept. of War COVID-Era Retaliation Persists https://redstate.com/chase-spears/2025/12/30/the-department…covid-persecution-movement-remains-full-steam-ahead-n2197592
    Both publicly expressed concern over how COVID policy was weaponized by former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to force over 8,000…
  19. WaPo’s Botched Hegseth Hit Job Proves the Pentagon Desperately Needs New Media https://redstate.com/rc-maxwell/2025/12/02/wapos-botched-heg…job-proves-the-pentagon-desperately-needs-new-media-n2196731
    In late 2023, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin underwent secret prostate cancer surgery, failed to notify President Biden or the chain … President Biden declared “complete confidence” in Austin, and that was the end.…
  20. Hegseth Replaces Two More Senior Pentagon Generals As He Continues to Reshape the Military Hierarchy https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/11/02/hegseth-replaces-two…s-as-he-continues-to-reshape-the-military-hierarchy-n2195775
    with the disgraced former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, and Secretary of Defense and Unauthorized Absences Lloyd … Austin, more likely than not, had a lot to do with the decision to forego his renomination.…
  21. Putin's War, Week 127. F-16s Arrive https://redstate.com/streiff/2024/08/02/putins-war-week-127-n2177577
    About Alleged Ukrainian Plot in Private Call.Earlier this month, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. … Austin III received an unusual request from an unlikely caller: His Russian counterpart wanted to talk....Now on July 12, Mr. … Austin, and its potential to ratchet up tensions between Moscow and Washington?…
  22. Biden's Insane Comments About Lloyd Austin, Black Neighborhoods in Trainwreck BET Interview https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/18/bidens-bet-interview-n2177043
    the, uh, secretary of defense — the black man" 🥴 pic.twitter.com/PJYzDznpIV— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 18, 2024He named Lloyd … Austin his Secretary of Defense and Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. … He also didn't get any heat that I ever heard about because of Austin being black. How can anyone support this?…
  23. Thursday Morning Minute https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2024/07/18/thursday-morning-minute-n2177044
     TOP O' THE MORNIN'Biden's Insane Comments About Lloyd Austin, Black Neighborhoods in Trainwreck BET InterviewBiden said it was…
  24. Concerning Moments: Biden Needs Help Getting Into Car https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/18/biden-getting-into-car-n2177045
    released was with BET, and it is one wild trainwreck, with Biden saying things that sound racist and calling his Secretary of Defense Lloyd … Austin "the black man," seemingly forgetting his name and/or confusing him with "Ketanji Brown." …  Operation Dump Biden Goes Into High Gear—What Pelosi Reportedly Told HimBiden's Insane Comments About Lloyd Austin, Black Neighborhoodsin…
  25. 'Absolutely Priceless': The Looks on the Faces of the Biden Team When Joe Confuses Kamala and Trump https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/11/the-video-that-sa…es-of-biden-team-when-joe-confuses-kamala-and-trump-n2176713
    Check out their expressions, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, and National Security … Austin blinked and looked down, trying to hold it together.…