GOP Senator Offers Bonkers Defense for Hesgeth’s Boat Strike

Sen. Tom Cotton let his imagination run wild as he offered a series of justifications for Pete Hegseth’s deadly strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat near Trinidad.

Cotton backed the defense secretary’s second strike on the two remaining survivors of the initial Sept. 2 attack, insisting they were “valid targets” because they were “not incapacitated.”

“They were sitting on that boat. They were clearly moving around on it,” Cotton said on Meet the Press Sunday,

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