Pete Hegseth's Answer To Basic Legal Question Takes A 'Clown Show' Turn [View all]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced backlash after declaring the Pentagon had “absolute and complete authority” to bomb a suspected Venezuelan drug vessel, but then offering no legal basis to back up that claim about the Donald Trump-ordered deadly strike that killed 11 people.

A reporter pressed Hegseth on Thursday: “What legal authority did the Pentagon invoke to strike that boat full of drug smugglers?”

Hegseth shot back: “We have the absolute and complete authority to conduct that.”

But he did not cite any law or mechanism granting such authority.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseths-answer-basic-legal-074322637.html

Go home Pete. You're drunk again.