NewsNation’s Leland Vittert took Democrats and the liberal media to town Monday night over their newfound obsession with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s alleged “war crime” committed in early September. The On Balance host cut through the noise by arguing the reasonable and obvious: the strikes in the Caribbean were warranted and not unprecedented, and that Democrats have always lost when going after President Trump on common sense issues.
After reporting the facts of the case, Vittert played a short compilation of clips from CNN’s The Situation Room, Chuck Todd on his podcast with Chris Cillizza, and Joe Scarborough on MS NOW’s Morning Joe, all of which were critical of the Trump administration’s actions:
The Washington establishment is simply horrified that the Trump administration is killing drug runners, and they want you to be horrified as well. And they're happy. You can see that in their pensive smiles. Because to them this will be the issue that finally ends the Trump Presidency, or at least defangs Trump. Trump is doing what he does in every one of these situations: he stays defiant.
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