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Trump vows to find 'leakers' after reports of depleted Iran war munitions

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"The US has massive amounts of 'munitions,' especially of certain types," Trump wrote on his Truth Social account. "The 'leakers' of these treasonous statements are being hunted down. Long term jail sentences will be sought!" The president was responding to a Washington Post report that said Trump had confronted Hegseth during a cabinet meeting at Camp David last week, accusing the Pentagon chief of misleading him on munitions shortages. The president reportedly charged that Hegseth told him the issue "had been fixed". The newspaper reported that Hegseth, who has long championed a militaristic approach to Iran, blamed Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg for the shortages and for failing to keep the president up to date. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth described the information as "not true". Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said "We don't have that many left, and there are no good substitutes." "If we run out of Patriots, then the missiles get through," Cancian said.