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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(131,559 posts)
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 01:57 PM 11 hrs ago

Trump says he'll look into reported second strike on suspected drug boat

WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump says he will look into whether the United States carried out a second strike against a boat in the Caribbean that the administration says was smuggling drugs, as he defended his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from an accusation that he ordered military officials to "kill them all" before the lethal strike.

A Washington Post report on Nov. 28 that cited anonymous sources said that Hegseth gave a directive to leave no survivors, which prompted the U.S. military to conduct a follow-on strike that killed two individuals to comply with the order.

Hegseth called the report "fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory," and Trump allies have responded by questioning the story's accuracy.

“I don't know anything about it," Trump told reporters on Nov. 30. "He said he did not say that, and I believe him, 100," Trump added. "He says he didn't do it."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-hell-look-reported-141824435.html

Sure you will.

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Trump says he'll look into reported second strike on suspected drug boat (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 11 hrs ago OP
Let Me Translate ProfessorGAC 11 hrs ago #1
on the news this morning, 2 stations said the order was verbal and recorded. Native 11 hrs ago #2
I've got a good feeling that the recording, if it really exists, MarineCombatEngineer 11 hrs ago #5
Yeah, sure, Pedonald, MarineCombatEngineer 11 hrs ago #3
Would he lie ?🤥 MustLoveBeagles 11 hrs ago #6
LOL. MarineCombatEngineer 11 hrs ago #7
Thanks 👍 MustLoveBeagles 11 hrs ago #8
Uh huh 🤔 MustLoveBeagles 11 hrs ago #4
Won't he need Traildogbob 11 hrs ago #9

ProfessorGAC

(75,464 posts)
1. Let Me Translate
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 02:00 PM
11 hrs ago

The anonymous source is telling the truth and Hegseth did exactly what he's accused of doing.

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,250 posts)
5. I've got a good feeling that the recording, if it really exists,
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 02:09 PM
11 hrs ago

will be leaked by someone trying to protect their ass or someone who recognizes this as an illegal order and a war crime.

Release the audio.

Traildogbob

(12,275 posts)
9. Won't he need
Mon Dec 1, 2025, 02:16 PM
11 hrs ago

To keep his eyes open long enough to look into it?
He has been “looking into” an Obama care repeal and replace since 2015. Yet here we are, and he still has a cult in love with him.

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