Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been widely condemned for brushing aside allegations that he committed a potential war crime by posting a cringeworthy meme of a children’s book.
Hegseth has been accused of ordering the military to “kill everybody” after two survivors of an alleged Venezuelan drug boat were seen clinging to a destroyed vessel that had been targeted in a U.S.-led airstrike in the Caribbean in September, according to The Washington Post.
As outrage mounted over the weekend about the second missile strike—which experts said could amount to an unjustified “murder” of people who posed no threat to the U.S.—Hegseth shared a fake cover from the children’s book series Franklin, showing the cartoon turtle firing an RPG at what appeared to be a drug boat. The doctored cover was titled Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.
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