President Trump said Sunday he did not believe a report that War Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered no survivors be left from a US military strike on a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean Sea this past September.

“Pete said he did not order the death of those two men,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One as he return to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

“And I believe him.”

The Washington Post reported Friday that a Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) commander ordered a second airstrike on a speed boat carrying 11 suspected Tren de Aragua narcoterrorists Sept. 2, after the first strike left two people clinging to the wreckage.

The second strike order reportedly was in response to Hegseth’s verbal command to “kill everybody” on board.

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