(The Center Square) – Secretary of War Pete Hegseth compared President Donald Trump to a president known for peace through strength during a talk at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum.

“If you look at the actual policies, Donald Trump is the true and rightful heir of Ronald Reagan,” Hegseth told a large crowd during his keynote address at the all-day Reagan National Defense Forum Saturday at the museum in Simi Valley, near Los Angeles.

Speaking in the museum’s Air Force One Pavilion, Hegseth also defended the recent U.S. military strikes on boats allegedly smuggling drugs from Venezuela. He noted he never issued an order to kill everyone on a boat Sept. 2 in the Caribbean Sea.

“Of course not. Anyone who’s been in the Situation Room, the War Room, knows you don’t go in the

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