“He said he did not say that, and I believe it could. So you don’t know if there was a second strike to kill the two men? No. He said he didn’t do it. He said he never said it. Would you be okay with that if he did?”
That was President Donald Trump aboard Air Force One, insisting Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth never gave the order to kill the survivors of a drug-smuggling boat struck by U.S. forces in the Caribbean, in an operation first revealed by The Washington Post. According to the Post’s exclusive reporting, a live drone feed on Sept. 2 showed two survivors clinging to the wreckage after the initial strike on an 11-member crew.
U.S. Special Operations forces then carried out a second strike, allegedly to comply with a spoken order to kill everyone. More than 80 people have now been killed under this new campaign. Senators from both parties say that even if the order happened, it could amount to a war crime.
Click play to listen to the report from AURN White House Correspondent Ebony McMorris. For more news, follow @E_N_McMorris & @aurnonline.
