Forbes Breaking News White House Denies Hegseth Issued Order To ‘Kill Everybody’ On Caribbean Vessel

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Admiral Frank Bradley ordered the second strike on a suspected drug trafficking vessel in September in the Caribbean in order to fully destroy the boat, and rejected a report in the Washington Post that an order came from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “kill everybody” that has drawn new scrutiny from legislators.

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