Back at the beginning of September, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized a strike on a drug boat suspected of ferrying fentanyl to American shores. Two of the alleged narco-terrorists survived the first blast so the military send a second shot that allegedly killed the two survivors of the first strike.
Democrats are yelling "war crimes" from the rafters and the mainstream media is picking up the charge.
Former Pentagon analyst Col. Bob Maginnis says the boat was a legitimate target.
“Article 2 gives President Trump the authority to do what was deemed appropriate here, and that is a shipment of fentanyl coming to the United States, and fentanyl, of course, is a weapon of mass destruction that kills tens of thousands of Americans every year.”
Maginnis says he served at the Pentagon for 25 years and attended many of the types of meetings where Secretary Hegseth is alleged to have ordered the second strike with the command "kill them all."
“I have never, and not once, heard a senior Pentagon leader give an order that sounds remotely like what the Washington Post has claimed. Not in wartime, not in any crisis, not behind closed doors.”
But Trump and Hegseth are far from the first military leaders to call for kinetic action against drug traffickers. Joe Biden was gung-ho for the idea in 1989.
“Let's go after the drug lords where they live, with an international strike force. There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists, and they must know it,” Biden said then.
Gary Bauer of American Values says Democrats are making accusations against Trump into a performative art of some sort.
“Things that have been done for years by both Republicans and Democrats are now being called unprecedented. Nobody has ever done what Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are doing,” said Bauer, mimicking the calls of critics.
