Reporter: Can you talk a little bit about the strikes and controversy around Hegseth—
Trump: I don’t know anything about it. He said he did not say that.
Reporter: You don’t know if there was a second strike to kill the two men
Trump: He said he didn’t do it
Reporter: Would… pic.twitter.com/JvxUvnaeQJ
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 30, 2025
Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime
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.