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A source inside the DOD told me, “Don’t worry it’s never going to be used as Air Force One. By the time they check it for bugs, retrofit it and prepare it, the country will have spent $1 billion and Trump will be out of office. It’ll just stay parked at an airport nearby his so-called Presidential Library so he can use it personally whenever he wants.”

Hegseth went on to suggest that the "leftist 'news' media" would rather see him install "tampon machines in every men’s bathroom at DoD."

The defense secretary's repeated use of third-party encryption apps to share sensitive information in defiance of DoD policy has cast an unflattering spotlight on his short tenure.

That news capped off a chaotic weekend that began with the termination of several senior DoD officials, who called their unexplained termination "unconscionable" in a joint statement.

“The objective of this evaluation is to determine the extent to which the Secretary of Defense and other DoD personnel complied with DoD policies and procedures for the use of a commercial messaging application for official business,” Stebbins wrote.