Trump Denies Second Strike Claim: It Wasn’t Needed

President Donald Trump rejected the claim that War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike to kill survivors in a Caribbean drug-boat strike.

“I don’t know that happened, and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about,” Trump told reporters Sunday night aboard Air Force One as he returned to Washington, D.C., after spending the Thanksgiving holiday at Florida’s Mar-a-Lago.

“I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.”

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