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Pete Hegseth sacrificed a top Navy admiral to escape responsibility for the strike and bragged there’s no boats left to destroy now

After turning his allegedly unlawful boat strikes into a meme, Pete Hegseth has now disowned accountability for the incident. Shamelessly enough, he made his top officer the fall guy for the controversial second strike instead.

The White House cabinet meeting on Dec. 2 was full of cringeworthy and outrageous statements from Trump’s ministers. But nothing tops Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s evil speech. After first calling 2025 a “historic year at the Department of War,” he bragged about his Caribbean boat strikes.

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