Senator Rand Paul is saying that Pete Hegseth is lying about his knowledge of Venezuelan boat strikes after initially calling the report fake news.
(…”or else he’s incompetent”…)
“So as a country, are we just going to let people lie to us, to our face? Are we going to let them kill people who they call enemies anytime in the world? Are we going to let them like when someone is stranded and holding on to the scraps of a boat put a second bomb on them?” he continued. “I think it’s outrageous and should be universally condemned,” he said.
Senator Paul seems to also not be in favor of the initial strikes on Venezuelan boats.
Paul is not the only Republican who is looking for accountability at the top.
On Friday the Washington Post reported a second strike on September 2 killed two survivors clinging to a boat. With Hegseth’s order to “kill everybody” Admiral Frank Bradley ordered a second strike to comply with the command.
On Tuesday, Hegseth said he didn’t stick around for the second strike:
“As you can imagine, at the Department of War, we got a lot of things to do, so I didn’t stick around for the hour and two hours, whatever…”