Donald Trump recently told reporters he’d have “no problem” releasing video of U.S. strikes off the Venezuelan coast where two survivors clinging to the shipwreck were shown no quarter. After a first strike, the Washington Post reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth verbally ordered the Joint Special Operations commander to kill them all. (While Hegseth has denied giving such an order and a Navy admiral supported his version of events, congressional investigators have called the video deeply concerning. Such a strike could have violated federal law, the U.S. Code on War Crimes and the Uniform Code of Military Justice prohibiting murder.)

But when asked about the video three days later, Trump denied ever agreeing to release it, telling a reporter, “You said that, I didn’t say that. T

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