Mary Trump - Abdication of Responsibility [View all]

As the scandals and policy failures of his own making pile up around him, Donald is doing what any reasonable, responsible, mature leader would do: he’s denying responsibility for any of it.

Last week, The Washington Post reported that, on September 2 of this year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the killing of two men who survived an initial attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea. This was another in a series of 21 bombings carried out by the U.S. military on those the Trump regime claims are suspected of engaging in “narco-terrorism.”

I wish it hadn’t taken the extra-legal killing of 80 people by the United States military, but finally Republicans have joined Democrats in publicly questioning the legality of these boat strikes in general and the possibility that the second bombing ordered amounts to a war crime. The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have launched bipartisan investigations. This is the most significant oversight effort yet into the bombings Donald has ordered our military to carry out in the region.

Donald is responding to this scrutiny by claiming he knew nothing about Hegseth’s order, which is the opposite of what the Commander-in-Chief should say under the circumstances:

https://www.marytrump.org/p/abdication-of-responsibility