Quick takes: The White House is making the commander of the second-strike mission the fall guy for the killings at sea
As reports emerge that survivors were killed in a second strike the administration is positioning Adm. Bradley as the decision-maker, setting him up to take the blame for the crime.
The more we learn about the second boat strike, the more it looks like The Village Idiot, Drunken Pete Hegseth and chief propagandist Karoline Levitt are laying the groundwork to pin this disaster on someone else — specifically, the admiral who executed the order. According to new reporting, survivors from the first strike were killed in a follow-up attack. That detail has now triggered bipartisan alarm on Capitol Hill, with House and Senate Armed Services committees demanding clarity on exactly who authorized lethal force against people already incapacitated.
Hegseth had no problem bragging for days about these strikes, celebrating them as decisive blows against “narco-terrorists.” But as legal scrutiny intensifies, he — along with Levitt and Trump — has pivoted to claiming that the military chain of command, not the pretend Secretary of War, made the critical calls.
This pattern is classic Trumpworld: claim credit when the optics are strong, assign blame downward when they aren’t. By positioning the admiral as the operational decision-maker, they create a ready-made scapegoat. And if public outrage intensifies, the admiral becomes disposable.
More importantly, we’re not just talking about the admiral losing his job, his reputation and his pension. We’re talking about war crimes. We’re talking about murder.