We’ve gone from defending Pete Hegseth to the Sergeant Schultz defense with Trump.
Trump was asked about the possibility that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth likely committed a war crime when he ordered the murder of civilians clinging to wreckage after surviving his first military strike on a fishing boat in the Caribbean by a reporter on Air Force One this weekend, and Trump tossed Hegseth right under the bus and backed over him a few times.
REPORTER: Can you talk a little bit about the strikes and controversy around Sec. Hegseth..
TRUMP: I don’t know anything about it. He said he did not say that, and I believe him.
REPORTER: You don’t know if there was a second strike to kill the two men?
TRUMP: He said he didn’t do it. He said he never (inaudible)
REPORTER: Would you be okay with that if he did?
TRUMP: He said he didn’t do it so I don’t have to make that decision.
In another clip captured by Acyn, Trump told reporters he wouldn’t have ordered the second strike:
