Brian Shilhvay
Big story in the NY Times tonight throwing around the term “war crimes” regarding Pretty Boy Pete’s alleged killing of Venezuelan fishermen.
From the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/trump-boat-strikes-war-crime.html):
Top Republicans have joined Democrats in demanding answers about the escalating military campaign the Trump administration says is aimed at targeting drug traffickers.
A top Republican and Democrats in Congress suggested on Sunday that American military officials might have committed a war crime in President Trump’s offensive against boats in the Caribbean after a news report said that during one such attack, a follow-up strike was ordered to kill survivors.
The remarks came in response to a Washington Post report on Friday that said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had given a verbal order to kill everyone aboard boats suspected of smuggling drugs, and that this led a military commander to carry out a second strike to kill those who had initially survived an attack in early September.
“Obviously if that occurred, that would be very serious, and I agree that that would be an illegal act,” Representative Mike Turner, Republican of Ohio and a former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, said on “Face the Nation” on CBS.
Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, said on CBS that if the report was accurate, the attack “rises to the level of a war crime.” And on CNN, when asked if he believed a second strike to kill survivors constituted a war crime, Senator Mark Kelly, Democrat of Arizona, answered, “It seems to.”
Full article. (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/us/politics/trump-boat-strikes-war-crime.html)
Trump claims he is standing by the Fox News Zionist, but it sounds a lot like he is actually throwing him under the bus to me.
From NewsNation (https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-drug-boat-second-strike-hegseth/):
Trump says he ‘wouldn’t have wanted’ second hit on alleged drug boat
President Trump defended his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, Sunday following media reports the Pentagon chief ordered a second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean after an initial assault left two survivors earlier this year.
“I wouldn’t have wanted that, not a second strike,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington. “The first strike was very lethal; it was fine. And if there were two people around … but Pete said that didn’t happen. I have great confidence in him.
“I’m going to find out about it, but Pete said he did not order the death of those two men.”
Full article (https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/trump-drug-boat-second-strike-hegseth/).
Pretty Boy Pete might be finished. It is one thing to rant and rave about killing “drug dealers” when you are a Fox News host, but in real life that stuff has consequences.
We should have no business in that part of the world to begin with. It is not about drug trafficking, its about trying to get the price of oil north of $60 a barrel which they not been able to do for a while now.
Trump and Maduro are probably on the phone every day planning it out so that Maduro gets paid also when the price of oil increases. And who knows, maybe Maudro’s participating is only because Trump pardoned his buddy Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, so they build their business back up as well.
It’s all a show, and it is all about money and power. Trump is the deal maker, and perhaps he made a deal that requires getting rid of Hegseth. The top military brass must hate this guy anyway.
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