Pete Hegseth’s scramble to shield himself from blame for a blatantly illegal strike on a boat in the Caribbean hasn’t exactly been subtle—least of all to his own subordinates.

The 45-year-old embattled Secretary of Defense has aggressively tried to wash his hands of a second deadly U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat on Sept. 2, following a bombshell Washington Post report earlier this week.

Two people survived the initial blast on Sept. 2 and were clinging to the burning vessel when the second strike hit—an incident that, if true, potentially amounts to a war crime. The strike was reportedly carried out under direct orders from Hegseth to “kill everybody.”

Multiple sources within the Department of Defense and the White House told Zeteo on Tuesday that they were “livid” over Hegseth’s s

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