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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 U.S. forces killed survivors

from an attack on an alleged drug trafficking vessel.

But experts from across the political spectrum believe may have been a war crime.

Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth today called it a matter of, quote, deterrence. Watch.

Deterrence has to matter, not arrest and handover and then do it again, the rinse and repeat

approach of previous administrations.

This is meant to get after that approach.

And I will just end by saying, as President Trump always has our backs, we always have the back

of our commanders who are making decisions in difficult situations and we do in this case and all these

strikes, they're making judgment calls and ensuring that they defend the American people.

They've done the right things.

We'll keep doing that.

And we have their back.

In which the Secretary of Defense comes out against arresting any survivors.

There's brand new reporting the Washington Post

on this story, and it reveals that military officials are today angry at comments like that.

They see it as an attempt to shift blame for the killing of those two survivors from the

Secretary of Defense, Pete Heggseth, to the commander overseeing the operation, Admiral Frank

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