As President Donald Trump hosts a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to receive ample attention from the press over his reported authorization of orders to kill narco-terrorists.

Critics have accused Hegseth of committing “war crimes” for giving the order to kill all accused narco-traffickers on a vessel in the Caribbean. The first strike did not kill everyone on board the ship, prompting a subsequent strike that killed the survivors.

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