BREAKING: Far right network calls for Hegseth’s PROSECUTION for WAR CRIMES

It gives me no pleasure to say what I'm about to say because I worked with Pete Hikeseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime, ordering survivors who the law requires be rescued instead to be murdered. There's absolutely no legal basis for it. Everybody along the line who did it, from the secretary of defense to the admiral to

the people who actually pulled the trigger, should be prosecuted for a war crime for killing these two people.

That was Newsmax's senior legal analyst Andrew Napolitano pulling no punches and saying that Pete Hegseth and everybody else involved in the September 2nd strike should be prosecuted for committing war crimes. Now, the background here is that on September 2nd, the US military struck a boat off the coast of Trinidad, and after the first missile hit, two survivors were spotted clinging to the wreckage. According to the Washington Post, Hegseth had given a verbal order to quote, kill everybody,

and so a special operations commander, Mitch Bradley, ordered a second strike to fulfill that directive. Those two people were then blown apart in the water. 11 people total were killed. So just to be clear about what we're talking about here, the first missile disables the boat and kills nine people, then while two survivors were helpless, unable to pose any threat whatsoever, the military fired a second missile to finish them off, which would constitute

a war crime, as Andrew Napolitano said. Republican Senator Rand Paul made that point as well on Twitter, writing, It is not permitted, under the laws and customs of honorable warfare, to order that no quarter be given, to apply lethal force to those who surrender or who are injured, shipwrecked, or otherwise unable to fight. And now the top two Senators on the Armed Services Committee, Republican Roger Wicker and Democrat Jack Reed issued a joint statement vowing to conduct rigorous oversight.

In the House, Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican chair of the House Armed Services Committee, and Adam Smith, the top Democrat, said in a joint statement that they are also taking bipartisan action to gather a full accounting of the operation, all of which is to say this problem does not seem to be going away to the extent that Hegseth wants it to. In fact, it's not just Newsmax that's focusing on this either. Here's Jessica Tarlow from Fox News also making that point on air.

Well, it's a war crime and we didn't play any Republicans, but there were plenty of them that have been talking about, like John Yoo, who was the architect of the Bush 9-11 response, was talking about this as well, that if there are people who are shipwrecked, which is what these two survivors were, that- Survivors? They survived the first strike. They're not survivors. Okay. They're victims. You know. Go ahead. I'm sorry. That's how the DOD manual says that you have to do it. That you have to take them. You should send a

helicopter and get them out of there and then you try them. Or international law also says that as well. You could play Roger Wicker talking about it, Senator Tom Tillis, Mike Turner, these are all Republicans saying it. So the narrative that this is about the left getting all hot and bothered about another hoax is absolutely beautiful.

Can I just ask you one question?

You already asked me a question.

No, I insist you stop.

What happens if we hit a terrorist and the terrorist survives? We're supposed to send a helicopter to rescue him? We know. And then give him first aid?

We know that this is a hoax.

Yes, we know.

Because the best case scenario is that Admiral Bradley, who they're trying to put all the blame on, is the one who authorized the second lethal strike that took out these people, who again, it was violation of the law that they were killed.

We also know that the US doesn't always do this because there was another strike in the Caribbean back in September where a Colombian and an Ecuadorian person survived and we repatriated them home. We didn't even take them to court here for the crimes that we knew that they'd committed. We sent them back to their home country. There is tons of reporting now. You want to call the Washington Post fake news. That's fine.

The New York Times, sorry, by the way, didn't exonerate them. We also have the Wall Street Journal saying that a DOD official says that Hegseth was the quote target engagement authority so the guy in charge. We also know writ large that the story about this administration being focused on eradicating American society of drugs is absolute BS because Donald Trump went in pardon he's walking free now the former Honduran president who trafficked 400 tons of cocaine into America. Why did he get to leave prison early at a 45 year sentence, which by the way, Trump administration number one prosecuted him because Roger Stone is

his buddy and because he wrote Donald Trump a letter calling him your excellency and saying that they shared conservative values. The problem is the story is changing every 10 minutes It went from fake news to the frog you're shooting narco-terrorist It is not changing at all It's completely consistent now It's Admiral Bradley's fault and I presume that he's getting lawyered up right now

And here's the craziest part clearly Pete Hseth sees that this is a massive liability, which is why he pulled a sneaky little trick to try and protect himself. He took to Twitter, writing, Let's make one thing crystal clear. Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made on the September 2nd mission and all others since.

America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When this Department of War says we have the back of our warriors, we mean it." He then echoed that sentiment at yesterday's Cabinet meeting here.

I will just end by saying, as President Trump always has our back, we always have the back of our commanders who are making decisions in difficult situations than we do in this case and all these strikes. They're making judgment calls and ensuring than we do in this case and all these strikes. They're making judgment calls and ensuring that they defend the American people. They've done the right things. We'll keep doing that and we have their backs, Mr. President.

Good job.

Thank you very much.

Do you see what he's doing? Throwing Mitch Bradley under the bus while pretending to compliment him? Putting the full blame on his subordinate while wrapping it up in praise. The only thing more transparent than what Pete Hexeth is doing is the shamelessness with which he says the Department of War has the backs of its warriors, the same warriors that he is throwing to the wolves in that very statement. And by the way, if you're wondering why Pete Hexeth feels so emboldened to act in such

a lawless manner, in such a shameless manner, it's because he's led by this guy, and as we know, the fish rots from the head.

As far as the attack is concerned, I didn't, you know, I still haven't gotten a lot of information because I rely on Pete, but to me it was an attack. It wasn't one strike, two strikes, three strikes. Somebody asked me a question about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know about the second strike. I didn't know anything about people. I wasn't involved in it. I knew they took out a vote.

But I would say this. They had a strike. I hear the gentleman that was in charge of that is extraordinary. He's an extraordinary person. I'll let Pete speak about him. But Pete was satisfied.

Pete didn't know about the second attack having to do with two people. And I guess Pete would have to speak

to it. Even Trump found a way to diffuse responsibility off of himself, making sure to say, I still have not gotten a lot of information because I rely on Pete. I wasn't involved. One after the next, these lawless hacks feel emboldened to break the law and then throw the next guy under the bus to protect themselves. Truly beacons of integrity.

In the meantime, when even right-wing media, even Fox, even Newsmax, are calling for Hegseth to be prosecuted, this isn't something that he's going to be able to shake off. to be prosecuted, this isn't something that he's going to be able to shake off. And all the blaming, obfuscating, and lying isn't going to do anything to protect him. voices.