Democratic Congressman Suggests Execution for Pete Hegseth

It was a message that was implicit, but unmistakable.

Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts used an interview with CNN Wednesday to accuse Secretary of War Pete Hegseth of being guilty of “war crimes” for his handling of the American military and its attacks on suspected drug runners bearing deadly cargo destined for U.S. shores.

And the punishment, Moulton implied, is execution.

“I mean, he’s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean, when it’s very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narco-terrorists — a term the administration invented to justify this action — are even on the boats,” Moulton told CNN’s Erin Burnett.

“I mean, in fact, there‘s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families.”

But it wasn’t enough to accuse Hegseth of masterminding what amounts to murder. Moulton had to go even further, recalling the September strike by the U.S. military on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea that used a follow-up attack to get those who survived the first.

“And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back and hit it again — a double tap — just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage.”

Moulton continued, ominously: “You know, it‘s interesting, Erin, another historical analogy: Back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed,” Moulton said.

“Listen to that, Mr. Secretary.”

Moulton had at least part of his story correct. But it’s what he didn’t get right that matters the most.

According to Naval History, a magazine of the private, nonprofit........

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