“Making Adm. Bradley the fall guy in the administration’s ‘Protect Pete’ campaign is disgraceful and destructive,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal. “Hegseth must go—resign or be fired.” As journalists on Tuesday continued to demand answers about the “double-tap” strike that started an illegal US bombing campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth kept pointing the finger […]
“This is murder,” said one legal expert. Finger-pointing has reportedly begun inside the Pentagon as the Trump White House has tried to shield US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from taking the blame for a double-tap strike on a purported narcotics smuggling vessel that many legal experts say was an obvious war crime. According to the Washington Post, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt set off “a furious […]
US forces have conducted over a dozen strikes on alleged drug-running boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean since early September, killing at least 57 people, according to Trump administration figures. Fourteen more people were killed and one survived three new US bombings of what Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday claimed—again without evidence—were […]
One critic expressed astonishment that Hegseth “summoned all the US generals from around the globe at great expense to fat shame them.” US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday sparked instant ridicule among critics for delivering a speech in front of American generals in which he railed against “dudes in dresses,” “climate change worship,” and “fat” soldiers. […]
