The Adam Mockler Show - Pete Hegseth gets NEWS HE FEARED Most from Military

Starting point is 00:00:00 Get no frills delivered. Shop the same in-store prices online and enjoy unlimited delivery with PC Express Pass. Get your first year for $2.50 a month. Learn more at p.cexpress.ca. All right, Magapete Hexeth is facing a lot of investigatory pressure from top Republicans in Senate Armed Services committees and other committees that relate to the military. They are not happy with his command to, quote, kill them all. Before we dig into the updates and the pressure being placed on Pentagon Pete,

Starting point is 00:00:34 let's just back up to this tweet from Eric Spurling, who points out that when Trump claims every drugboat they strike equals 25,000 American lives saved, that's his claim, even though it's not true. The person that Donald Trump just pardoned, Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras, trafficked 400 tons of cocaine into the United States. That's the equivalent of about 200 drugboats. So, by Trump's own mathematical formula, the man that he just pardoned basically killed

Starting point is 00:01:09 5 million Americans through this drug smuggling. Now, of course, the formula is BS. It doesn't line up like that, but if you do want to take Trump's own logic to the extremes, then it doesn't look too good for him. This is disgusting. So Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring the traffic 400 tons of cocaine, He also apparently ordered someone to be chopped up by a machete and killed people when he was a drug lord. It is some insane stuff.

Starting point is 00:01:37 This screenshot says, Prosecutors later uncovered that Hernandez was linked with drug traffickers as far back as 2004 long before he became president. And that he had facilitated the smuggling of around 500 tons of cocaine to the U.S. They said that drug traffickers paid him millions of dollars in bribes to allow cocaine to be smuggled from Colombia and Venezuela three. Honduras on to the U.S. peak corruption. This dude does not care about U.S. lives, and Donald Trump pardoned him. There are rumors that this dude has offshore money in a crypto firm that he's going to then donate to Donald Trump. We don't know that for sure, but the cryptocurrency speculation is the one that I believe the most. Donald Trump has done a lot of corruption

Starting point is 00:02:19 via crypto. This brings me on to Senator Mark Wayne Mullen being asked about this pardon on CNN, and his answer is mind-numbing. They always say, they don't know when Donald Trump does something insanely corrupt. Joe Biden could look at someone the wrong way and every Republican senator would be ringing the alarm, sounding the alarm, saying this is fascism. But when Donald Trump pardons an actual drug trafficker, Mark Wayne Mullen says, I have to ask, he is clearly very concerned about central and South American presidents allegedly trafficking drugs to the United States. So if that's the case, why is he planning to pardoned the former Honduran president who was convicted by an American jury of drug

Starting point is 00:03:04 trafficking who allegedly said this is according to testimony from his trial he would quote shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringoes by flooding the united states with cocaine well the particular circumstances that i'm not quite aware of how oh my god he used the mike johnson defense i haven't heard of this happening dude you haven't heard of one of the large just stories of the past week. However, I do know we're trying to build relationships with Honduras. We're trying to build relationships throughout South America and Central America because China has greatly influenced those countries in a negative way.

Starting point is 00:03:40 This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. The United States has so much soft power. We as a country have so much to offer. I actually am proud to be an American and I think America has a lot to offer other countries, other allies. Maybe right now that we don't have a lot to offer because our leader is an asshole. But ideally, we could call Venezuela, we could call Honduras, we could call any of these countries that Donald Trump is relentlessly attacking,

Starting point is 00:04:08 and we could just cut a deal. Like, he's about to go to war with Venezuela. It's insane. When it comes to Honduras, Donald Trump pardoned their ex-president, who was so corrupt that he killed under Trump's logic. How many Americans was it? It was five million Americans under Trump's own formula. This is not diplomacy.

Starting point is 00:04:26 This is just corruption. This is trying to return us. to a pre-constitutional era where Trump is a monarch who can pardon people for gifts, give gifts for pardons, do whatever the hell he needs to get what he wants. And it's not alleged that South and Central America and Mexico is flooding our streets with drugs. We know that's where they're coming from. And so I think by building new relationships, by allowing people to have a new beginning, he's showing good face saying, hey, we're going to work with you. Wait, what? By allowing people to have a new beginning, Dana Bash is like, she can't believe

Starting point is 00:04:58 this bullshit. The guy who has a new beginning tried to get 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S. to continue, Mark Wayne Mullen and Zen asked about Pete Hegeseth. Maga Pete Heggseth striking a ship illegally. His answer is pretty bad and they begin to go back and forth. I said before. Full stop. Do you know that it's not true? And then then we know that the president, we know that the, that the Navy or the Coast Guard has picked up survivors already and sent them back to the country. So now we're saying that they did it once and they didn't do it again. I don't believe this at all. Okay. Could that be because a lawyer in the Pentagon said, you can't do that again, and then they didn't, then they actually listened the second time? Is that possible? No, I,

Starting point is 00:05:38 they, no, absolutely not. And I don't know why we're spending so much time on this. The president and the Secretary of War has been very clear they're going to use lethality against our enemies, home and abroad. This has been very clear what's going on right now, that the drug organization that is considered a terrorist organization that is flooding our streets with drugs, as killing Americans every single day. So Mark Wayne Mullen's entire point is that he doesn't believe this Washington Post report, but Magapete Hexat's own post all but confirmed the report when he came out and said, yeah, we do use maximum lethality against all of our enemies.

Starting point is 00:06:14 The problem here is, not that they're trying to stop drug trafficking in the United States, I keep repeating this. I want zero drug trafficking in the United States. The goal is to minimize the amount of drugs coming into the United States, but we have to have some standard of international law and domestic law while we do so. Due process is fundamental in a functioning, not only democracy or country, but a functioning globe. You want due process no matter where you are.

Starting point is 00:06:41 If an American were dropped in a country like China or Russia, you would hope they have due process in the same sense that when a boat is on international waters and they are struck with no due process, And then they are after the fact identified as an enemy of the United States in order to post-hawk justify and rationalize it. That is a problem. Just to catch everybody up. The breaking news the other day was that Trump authorized a double-tap strike. The experts say is likely a war crime.

Starting point is 00:07:07 Pete Hegseth was really the one that authorized it, but overall Trump's administration is responsible. Trump and Pete Hegseth ordered a second strike on a busted drug boat after U.S. surveillance saw survivors fighting for their lives. in the water. That double tap is almost certainly illegal under international law because there was no armed conflict. The people targeted were civilians or non-combatants and killing the wounded or shipwrecked is one of the clearest, oldest war crimes on the books. The UK is so alarmed that it halted intelligence sharing to avoid being complicit. If the reporting holds, Trump didn't authorize a counter-narcotics operation. He authorized the unlawful killing that fits the definition of a war crime. These three prongs are very important right here. There is no armed conflict whatsoever.

Starting point is 00:07:56 We'll touch back on that later. Number two, the people targeted were civilians or non-combatants. I mean, at the time, they were shipwrecked, non-combatants, and they were unarmed at the time. And killing wounded slash shipwrecked is one of the clearest, oldest war crimes. Very true. We learned right after this report that the Republican-led House Armed Services Committee is now investigating Trump and Pete Hegseth for their possible war crimes, vowing, quote, rigorous oversight. Mark Kelly is then asked this morning what he would have done in this situation. His answer is very illuminating as he is a former service member. Based on what you, what CNN is reporting, what the Washington Post is reporting, do you believe if there was a second strike

Starting point is 00:08:41 to eliminate any survivors that that constitutes a war crime? It seems to. It seems to. It. If that is true, if what has been reported is accurate, I've got serious concerns about anybody in that chain of command stepping over a line that they should never step over. We are not Russia. We're not Iraq. We hold ourselves to a very high standard of professionalism. And this is where I'm really troubled about this is because I have so much respect for people in the United States Navy. I served in the Navy for 25 years. and there is no organization more professional than Navy SEALs. And they should be revered. And that's why I say I hope what I've heard about this strike is not accurate.

Starting point is 00:09:29 You mentioned that you are a captain in the Navy. If you received that order, would you have carried it out? No. No, and I'm a guy who I have sunk two ships. You know, I've sunk an Osa II missile patrol boat in Kuwait Harbor, a Pernakni troop carrier in the Persian Gulf during the First Gulf War. I never in that situation question whether those strikes were legal. We were given an order to do this.

Starting point is 00:09:51 It was a time of war. These were Iraqi ships with Iraqi crew members who posed a threat to the United States, military, in this case. They invaded Kuwait. We're trying to kick them out of Kuwait. This was approved by Congress. All of that, right? But if I was ever given an order for a second, I've had questions about the operation in general. And I've been saying this for weeks, putting service members kind of like, are you stepping over a line here?

Starting point is 00:10:18 Is this legal? They have tied themselves in knots trying to explain to us on the Armed Service Committee how this is legal. Not sharing, you know, all of the information either, which is really troubling. Now, that's pretty damning. Mark Kelly's saying that he would have said no to this order, to the second strike. The first strike is different, but a second strike on non-combatants. at war with Venezuela. I mean, not right now. Donald Trump is rapidly progressing us there by mobilizing all of our carriers in the sea around Venezuela and then putting a no-fly zone

Starting point is 00:10:52 above Venezuela, which is a threat to shoot down any civilian or military aircrafts. Just insane stuff, but Mark Kelly says he would have denied this second strike. And many people would have. That's why the UK suspended some intelligence sharing with U.S. overboat strike concerns in major break. This happened on November 11th, and I guess nobody really understood the full depth of why the UK did this. We had our ideas about lack of due process, but we didn't know until the Washington Post reported this article two or three days ago that the reason why the UK did this. The reason why the United Kingdom suspended intel sharing is because we were double-tapping. We were striking twice. The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the U.S. about suspected drug

Starting point is 00:11:39 trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in U.S. military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal. Even the U.K. believes the attacks are illegal. The U.K.'s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence-sharing partner. Literally, one of our closest allies, the U.K., said, nope, we're done. Canada is done with our shit. Other countries in Europe are absolutely done with our shit.

Starting point is 00:12:05 Even Mark Kelly said, yo, I would not have done this. He didn't say the Yopart. That was me. Don Bacon, a Republican representative from Nebraska, Don Bacon said to the Washington Post, and by the way, double check to make sure you're subscribed to the Adam Mochler feed. We are rapidly getting to a point where we're going to beat MAGA Media. We just need you to be subscribed and drop in a like and some blue hearts below.

Starting point is 00:12:27 But this says, quote, when people want to surrender, you don't kill them from a Republican representative. When people want to surrender, you don't kill them. They have to pose an imminent threat. It's hard to believe that two people on a raft trying to survive would pose an imminent threat. So let's get the facts first. Secretary Hegseth deserves his day to present his side of the story. And you know what?

Starting point is 00:12:50 I agree. I am an American through and through. I believe in due process and human dignity and liberalism. And I think that Magapete Hegseth deserves his day in court and deserves the due process that he did not afford the people on that raft. GOP lawmakers are now pressing Pete Hegsett. for more and more details. Again, the House Armed Services Committee leaders this weekend

Starting point is 00:13:12 said they are seeking a full accounting of the early September U.S. military attack and we are going to get the transparency that we have not gotten when it comes to the Epstein files, the transparency that we've not gotten when it comes to the economy as they are delaying economic numbers. And legal experts are now accusing Heggseth

Starting point is 00:13:30 of war crimes, murder, or both after a new reporting on this boat strike. Former top military lawyers, said on Saturday that new reporting on orders personally given by Hagsath constitute, likely war crimes, murder, or both, the former judge-advocate generals, Jags, working groups, which includes former officials who served as legal advisors, issued a statement to the Washington Post. I mean, listen to this. Former U.S. military lawyers speak out, quote, the former Jags unanimously consider both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes,

Starting point is 00:14:07 murder, or both. They released an official statement where they unanimously said, this is bad. I'm going to leave it there. If you appreciate these videos on a daily basis, drop a like and subscribe. We're going to continue pushing outbreaking news disrupting the disinformation out there. Peace out.

The Adam Mockler Show - Pete Hegseth gets NEWS HE FEARED Most from Military

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