All the ways the Trump administration has changed its story on the boat strikes :smoke:
LOTS of details provided.
All the ways the Trump administration has changed its story on the boat strikes
Story by Analysis by Aaron Blake, CNN 16h
6 min read
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/all-the-ways-the-trump-administration-has-changed-its-story-on-the-boat-strikes/ar-AA1RXbMa?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=3fbcb05f8f49454dad9b15ba72b5972d&ei=29
Shortly after the Trump administration carried out its first known attack on an alleged drug vessel in the Caribbean in early September, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appeared with his old colleagues on Fox News Fox and Friends to brag about the precision of the operation.
I watched it live. We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing and we knew exactly who they represented, Hegseth said.
He added that these were gang members from Venezuela who were trying to poison our country with illicit drugs.
But three months later, the story of the already legally dubious attack has become one of the biggest controversies of the second Trump administration, with the revelation that the administration conducted a second set of strikes that finished off survivors of its initial ones a possible war crime.
And importantly, the administration cant seem to get its story straight.
Repeatedly over the last week-plus, its account of events has changed. Here are some of the key details.............................
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TRUMP
"I didn't say that, you said that, this is ABC fake news"
"Whatever Hegseth wants to do is OK with me"
"Every boat we save 25K American lives" [Oh really ?!]
"You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place!"
"Whatever [videos] they have we'd certainly release, no problem"
#LIAR‼️