The story the Trump administration told to justify the deaths of everyone on a boat following multiple missile strikes in the Caribbean continues to collapse. It appears that not all of the details the administration told the American people were true.
Trump and his White House claimed the boat they blew up was headed to the United States, but according to CNNit was not true:
According to intelligence gathered by U.S. forces, the stricken boat planned to “rendezvous” with the second ship and transfer drugs to it, Adm. Frank Bradley said during the briefings, but the military was unable to locate the second ship. Bradley argued that it was still possible that the drug shipment could have ultimately made it from Suriname to the United States, the sources said, telling lawmakers that this justified striking the smaller boat even though it was not heading directly toward U.S. shores at the time it was hit.
The administration continues to try to justify these strikes, while lawmakers suggest Hegseth, potentially under Trump’s leadership, committed war crimes or murder.
The conservative Supreme Court granted Donald Trump immunity for “official acts,” but Pete Hegseth has no immunity.
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Hegseth and Trump can be impeached, and that’s exactly what the nonpartisan citizens group Free Speech For People is calling for.
Free Speech For People said in a statement:
On December 4, 2025, even as Congress demanded answers over the September 2, 2025 killing of two survivors of a U.S. missile strike in the Caribbean, the Trump administration bombed another small ship in the Pacific, killing all four men on board. It represents the 22sd publicly acknowledged the military strike ordered by the Trump administration in the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean since September 2, 2025 and 87th death. President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should be impeached for all of them. The United States is not at war with drug cartels, speedboats and deep-sea fishing boats are not battleships, and Trump cannot classify civilians as combatants to justify killing them.
Read Trump and Hegseth’s impeachment rationale below.