Hegseth Declares He Has ‘Absolute Authority’ to Kill Suspected Drug Dealers

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  2. Note the word “suspected”, he’s not even talking about confirmed or convicted dealers!

  4. This fucker won’t be able to leave the U.S after the term is over as he will have warrants out for his arrest for violating international law

  5. No need for a trial! If you are suspected of being a drug dealer you get a hollow point between the eyes.

    Don’t loiter too long in a dodgy neighbourhood…

  6. Should we expect Fed board members and Democrat members of Congress to become suspected drug dealers? That’s not a sarcastic question, but I wish it was.

  7. like fuck he does

    his murder trials will be something

  8. Did all of Trump’s top-ranked flunkies drop acid yesterday? Between Bear Worm Kennedy Jr’s proclamation that vaccines cause trans people to take SSRIs and shoot up schools, and Drunk Dial Signal Chat declaring his divine right to rain death from above, there’s been enough crazy to power one of King Jong Un’s direct-to-sea missile launches.

  10. Wouldn’t pass up a shot at a boat of migrants either I imagine.

  11. Dear Lord, please give us someone with the balls to run on a platform of putting bastards like this in prison…

  13. I’ve been hearing rumors that Pete Hegseth is a drug dealer.

    Maybe we should follow his lead on this one… 

  14. So he’s willing to go to jail when he gets prosecuted for war crimes?

  15. Why are white supremacists never the best representations of their own race?

  16. Let them all – Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, etc – make these admissions. Let them keep repeating it. That will provide a lot of the evidence when they’re eventually tried for war crimes.

  17. Yeah but when you’re drunk you may mistake an innocent person for a suspected drug dealer.

  19. I would very much like to see this professional poser arrested and surrendered to the International Criminal Court.

  21. Just wait a week or two until we start hearing about 11 missing fishermen from the area who started washing up in bits and pieces…

  22. It’s nice that he’s giving us all this evidence for his crimes against humanity trial.

  24. This is straight up fascism, in case there was any doubt left.

    Pete Hegseth may face the death penalty for this when he is brought to justice.

  25. Everyone involved in bombing that boat should be prosecuted for murder.

  26. So he is now the official judge and jury of the Trump administration. No arrests, no hearings , no investigations just kill them because they were suspected of drug dealing. We are in a lot of trouble. Time for Congress to investigate and intervene.

  27. He does not. He cannot attack and kill. Thats MURDER! That’s unconstitutional.

  28. That’s the world they live in? Declare something to be and so it is??

  29. It’s nice that language that would get you banned on Reddit is now the official government line.

  30. Uhhh …NO. Unilateral, extrajudicial assassination outside ( or inside) American borders, especially without declaring war, is prohibited by US and International laws. We have a long history of at-sea interdiction, search and seizure, possibly leading to arrest and conviction. Like so many “ideas” DJT has, the core idea is OK ( stopping drug shipments) but the implementation is absolutely the most insane and illegal path forward.

  31. What he means is he has the authority to kill anyone he wants, because who is going to stop him? The writing is on the wall.

  33. Drug Enforcement is not even under Department of Defense so there is nothing about arguing his right to commit this war crime that is true.

  34. Insane. Trump claims the authority to send the military into US cities he thinks are in a crime crisis. Who determines if the city is having a crime crisis? The same guy.

    Now they are murdering civilians “suspected of being drug dealers. Who decides if they are suspects? The same guy. Will we verify that the killed were actually drug dealers? No.

  35. It’s still baffling to me that a former Fox News weekend host is in a position to make these kind of decisions. Like can we all just think about that

  36. “Suspected”

    To hell with that. That’s extrajudicial killing based on suspicion alone – vigilante stuff. It’s murder, justified with “we’re the government” and “they’re not US citizens”.

    When we get rid of this administration we’re going to need some Nuremberg-style trials for everyone who took part in this and dozens of other crimes. Give them fair trials, due process, and uphold the rule of law – all the stuff they’re currently shitting on.

  37. No evidence, no trial, just a suspicion and they can kill you. This is fascism.

  38. In one of the military subs, several Coast Guard folks said they had personally done numerous drug runner interdictions, and not once had any of them EVER seen a drug transport with more than three people onboard.

    A boat with eleven people is not a drug runner.

    Those people were murdered. Any military member who accepted those orders committed murder. I used to be in the military, and whoever pushed the button should have known better. We don’t get to just kill non-combatants.

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