Time Hegseth to hit the bottle again.

Poor macho-man Pete with his power-trip missile button in the Pentagon.   Seems clear he flagrantly and illegally ordered people to be murdered.    Thats what happens when you put an unqualified drunk in charge of the worlds most powerful military.

Now The walls are closing in.   Even Republicans in Congress are calling him out for his war crimes.    

So What's Trump going to do?   He'll either pardon him...or we'll get the "I barely knew him" song and dance as Hegesth gets thrown under the bus.      I'd say 50/50 it could go either way.

I think he'll bleat some pretext about how he (Trump) has "emergency powers" because of the manufactured crisis with Venezuela, and that enables him to order the extrajudicial murder of people who MAY be drug traffickers.

The reason I believe he won't just try to wash his hands of the whole thing is that his battle group deployment and his pronouncement of "closure" of Venezuelan airspace suggest he's going all in on this.

Of course, yes, he could do a 180 and claim that Hesgeth acted on his own.

Hopefully, the ICC indicts him which will make it very difficult for him to leave US soil. 

    Pentagon Press Sec. Kingsley Wilson defends the Department of War's second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, referencing a Washington Post report that claimed Hegseth ordered the military to just “kill everybody.” " A completely fake story in the Washington Post, now discredited by the New York Times, tried to mischaracterize these successful strikes in bad faith. ... The decision to restrike the narco-terrorist vessel was made by Admiral Bradley operating under clear and longstanding authorities to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States was eliminated. Secretary Hegseth stands behind Admiral Bradley

The White House has changed their story several times here is what Pete said the day after the attack on Fox News.

I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat," Hegseth said, saying that the people on the boat were Tren de Aragua members who were "trying to poison our country with illicit drugs."

They had NO way of knowing--none, zip, nada--who was on that boat or what the boat was carrying. So the Pentagon story is that you get to murder people as long as you call them narco-terrorists.

So Bottle Pete used satellite surveillance to zoom in on them and using sophisticated x-ray technology, read their gang membership cards? Oooookay!

The point being Pete said the day after he was right there and now they are saying it was the admiral's decision and Pete had nothing to do with it which is laughable on its face. 

So it's the admiral whom Trump is going to throw under the bus?

  The ONLY thing laughable is, in spite of visual evidence of what was in the boats, you persist in defending the illegal importation of the very drugs that are killing thousands of Americans. Stopping this form of transportation of these drugs is proper and justified. You, being a misguided liberal fool, know nothing about the chain of command and you also have no respect for the laws that govern these actions. What the Admiral did and what Hegseth said about what happened were/are correct.