Watching Donald Trump and his Secretary of War Pete Hegseth trying to dodge allegations of committing potential war crimes in the Caribbean is like watching a narcissist’s rulebook play out in real time at warp speed: That didn’t happen. Oh, it definitely didn’t happen. And if it did, I wasn’t there. And if I was, Obama did it first.
Last week, both men were insisting that they had no idea about a “double-tap” second strike by the U.S. military that killed two survivors clinging to the blazing wreckage of an alleged drug vessel. Hegseth called the initial report by The Washington Post “fabricated and inflammatory,” but when Congress launched a probe into the operation, he conveniently revised his story by claiming that he only witnessed the first strike, and then left to “attend other meetings,” during which the present commanders spent 41 minutes debating what to do about the survivors.
