Even MAGA Newsmax is calling Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Sept. 2 boat bombings a war crime.
“I don't take any pleasure in saying what I'm about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News,” judge Andrew Napolitano said on Tuesday's broadcast. “This is an act of war crime. An order to the survivors – who are required by law – saved– instead of being killed.”
Napolitano continued.
“There is absolutely no legal basis for this. Everyone who did this, from the secretary of defense to the admiral and the people who actually pulled the trigger, should be held accountable for a war crime for the murder of these two men.”
Wow. A Newsmax legal analyst just said that Pete Hegseth and everyone involved in the illegal boat strike should be “prosecuted for war crimes.”
They even lost to Newsmax in this one. pic.twitter.com/ymzpvWoI67
— Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) December 2, 2025
Newsmax is designed specifically for the far-right audience. preferred network President Trump and her almost unwavering support for him. Such criticism, especially coming from Hegseth's former colleague, speaks volumes about how poorly planned the explanation for this potential war crime was and how widely the decisions were criticized by both the left and the outside world. right.
