Hegseth Makes Fun of his Boat Strike Orders….

Arogance and Insensitivity….

The guy NEEDS to be GONE….

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday evening made light of the mounting scrutiny he faces over a report that he gave an order to “kill everybody” aboard an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September.

In a post on the social platform X, the Defense secretary included a mock cover of a children’s book from the “Franklin the Turtle” book franchise. The edited cover includes a small-print label at the top, “A Classic Franklin Story,” followed by the made-up title, “Franklin Targets Narco Terrorists.”

The illustrated cover depicts the Franklin character, dressed in military garb, standing off the side of a helicopter, as he holds what appears to be a mounted machine gun, aimed at three boats below, which all appear to be carrying cargo representing drugs. One of the boats is mid-explosion, as Franklin fires off more ammunition directed below.

Hegseth tagged in the photo U.S. Southern Command, which covers the region where the Trump administration has launched a series of attacks in recent months targeting what it alleges are boats carrying drugs headed to the United States.

“For your Christmas wish list…,” Hegseth wrote Sunday in the post, alongside the mock book cover….

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Update…

Trump allies dismiss reported attacks on Venezuelan boat strike survivors

What they’re saying: Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) dismissed the reporting as anonymous and unproven on CNN’s State of the Union. “I don’t know if I believe that at all,” he said.

• Mullin said the Navy and Coast Guard have rescued and returned survivors from other strikes.
• President Trump is “protecting the Unites States by being proactive,” Mullin said.
• “I don’t think [Hegseth] would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, ‘Kill everybody. Kill the survivors.’ Because that’s a clear violation of the law of war,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.), a retired Air Force general, said on ABC’s This Week. “I’m very suspicious that he would have done something like that because it would go against common sense.”

Yes, but: “If the facts go where the Washington Post article takes it, well then we’ll have to go from there. If it was as if the article said, that is a violation of the article of war,” Bacon said.