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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Library last night that the Trump administration strikes on alleged drug traffickers will continue.
These narco terrorists are the al-Qaeda of our hemisphere and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision.
that we hunted al-Qaeda.
Democrats have called the military strikes illegal and several have called for video of the strikes to be released to the public.
Hegseth was asked at the forum about reports that in one recent strike he ordered that everyone on a boat in the Caribbean be killed.
Did you at any time say that everybody on board should be killed?
Does anybody hear from the Washington Post?
I don't know where you get your sources but they suck.
Of course not.
Hegseth says the strikes are part of the administration's strategy to defend the western hemisphere.
The Trump administration has added President Trump's birthday, June 14th,
to the list of free admission days at national parks.
NPR's Chloe Veltman has more.