Donald Trump has insisted he would not have wanted the second “kill everybody” strike Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth allegedly ordered on a Venezuelan drug boat in the Caribbean.
Hegseth had reportedly ordered the follow-up strike to wipe out two survivors of an initial U.S. missile attack on the boat, as reported by The Washington Post on Thursday.
The publication cited two sources who said Hegseth’s spoken directive was “kill everybody,” referring to two people clinging onto the vessel.
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