‘Protect Pete’: White House scrambles to do damage control for Pete Hegseth’s role in boat strikes

We have entered the moving the goalpost phase of the Trump administration's response to the fallout from news of a double tap boat strike in the Caribbean in which US forces killed survivors from an attack on an alleged drug trafficking vessel. What experts from across the political spectrum believe may have been a war crime. Defense Secretary Pete Hegath today called it a matter of quote deterrence.Watch. Deterrence has to matter, not arrest and hand over and then do it again. The rinse and repeat approach ...