Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the Future of American War-Crimes Prosecutions

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Donald Trump’s selection of Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense caught the attention of the In the Dark team. Hegseth, formerly a weekend co-host of “Fox & Friends,” is a longtime supporter of accused American war criminals, and has called Eddie Gallagher, the Navy SEAL who was tried for murder and other crimes, a “war hero.” The reporters Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko discuss what Hegseth’s appointment could mean for war-crimes prosecutions under the Trump Administration.

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0:00.0	Are you recording?
0:03.3	Yes, I am.
0:04.8	All right.
0:05.8	Let's do it.
0:08.0	Hey in the dark listeners.
0:09.4	It's Madeline Barron.
0:10.6	And Parker Yesco. Hey, guys.
0:12.8	We're back in your feed today because there's been some recent news that feels really relevant to a lot of the things that we reported on in season three.
0:20.0	It has to do with one of the appointments
0:22.1	that incoming President Donald Trump has recently announced. And this appointment got the attention
0:27.7	of our entire team because it could make it even harder for war criminals in the United States
0:32.9	to be held accountable. If you've listened to season three, you know that our reporting found
0:37.4	how hard it is
0:38.3	already for people accused of war crimes to be punished in any kind of meaningful way. And it is most
0:43.5	likely about to get a lot harder. We're talking specifically here about the man Trump has decided
0:49.2	he wants to nominate for Secretary of Defense. This is a man Parker and I are both very familiar with.
0:54.4	We're talking, of course, about Pete Hegseth. And the reason we're so familiar with Pete Hegseth
0:59.4	is because Hegseth has been one of the most outspoken defenders of Americans accused of war
1:05.2	crimes in the entire country. Yeah, and we've been talking a lot on our team about what his
1:09.8	hypothetical confirmation could mean for convicted war criminals and American service members accused of war crimes in the future.
1:18.7	In a certain point, we thought we should stop talking about it just between us and talk about it with you guys, too.
1:25.1	Right. So that's what we're going to talk about today. Donald Trump,
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