Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday continued what appears to be a deliberate effort to blame a veteran naval officer for the order to launch a second missile strike on an alleged drug-running boat that killed two survivors of an earlier missile hit.
Speaking at what the White House billed as the final Trump administration cabinet meeting of 2025 on Tuesday, the Pentagon boss closed out brief prepared remarks by stating that his department had “only just begun” striking what the administration has claimed, without offering evidence, are “narco-boats” and “putting narco-terrorists at the bottom of the ocean, because they've been poisoning the American people.”
