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Online commentators mocked the new crop of Pentagon reporters for being unable to accurately report which desks they were using

"Republicans will never allow articles of impeachment to be brought to the floor," he said.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said that "it's very possible there was a war crime committed" in the Trump administration's first strike against a suspected drug-trafficking boat in the Caribbean Sea in September.

The White House insists the strike followed the laws of armed conflict.

Military experts have questioned the legality of the boat strikes.

Even if you accept the president's assertion of an "armed conflict" with drug smugglers, blowing apart survivors of a boat strike would be a war crime.

Lately, there has been significant controversy surrounding United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. In the first week of September, under Hegseth’s command, his troops conducted a second strike on a vessel in the Caribbean that was suspected of containing drug traffickers, following a first strike that left two individuals…

Trump administration refuses to say whether survivors on suspected drug-trafficking vessels posed imminent threat

Republican Rep. Carlos Gimenez stood by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following a report claiming that he ordered that all members aboard an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean be killed, alleged actions that prompted Democrats to say he may have committed war crimes.