Pete Hegseth’s scramble to shield himself from blame for a blatantly illegal strike on a boat in the Caribbean hasn’t exactly been subtle—least of all to his own subordinates.
The 45-year-old embattled Secretary of Defense has aggressively tried to wash his hands of a second deadly U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2, following a bombshell Washington Post report earlier this week.
Two people survived the initial blast on Sept. 2 and were clinging to the burning vessel when the second strike hit—an incident that, if true, potentially amounts to a war crime. The strike was reportedly carried out under direct orders from Hegseth to “kill everybody.”
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