On Sunday, CNN State Of The Union host Dana Bash repeatedly quizzed Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) about a story first reported by The Washington Post, that back in September, the U.S. ordered a second strike on a boat in the Caribbean that was believed to be transporting drugs. The reported purpose was to kill the few survivors of the first strike, which some say would constitute a war crime. Mullin wasn't buying any of it.
Bash first brought the issue up to Democrat Senator Mark Kelly, currently under FBI investigation for his participation in the Democrat "illegal orders" video. She asked him about the report, and he said, that if the accusations are true, "it seems to" constitute a war crime. She then threw Kelly's answer at Mullin, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee:
BASH: ..Sources tell CNN that, in the first strike in September, one missile disabled the ship and killed many of the crew members, but when some survived that first strike, the military launched a second strike to kill anyone who was left. And these individuals were apparently unarmed, already injured from the original attack. Are you comfortable with that?
MULLIN: Well, I don't know if I believe that at all, because we're doing alleged sources. Nothing has been verified by this. We do know that a survivor that did survive in later attacks was picked up by the United States Coast Guard or Navy, I'm not for sure, and was sent back to his country. You guys reported on that. So I doubt very seriously that took place...It's alleged. Nothing's been proven at all about this. No one's come out and said it was accurate. It's just somebody by alleged source that anybody can name or make up that this supposedly took place.
Bash then tried to insinuate that planned committee hearings that have been scheduled in the House and Senate on this and other issues was somehow proof of evidence.
BASH: The Republican chairman of your committee, Armed Services, in the Senate and the Republican Chair of the House Armed Services Committee have both taken enough, seen enough credence in this that they say that they are investigating in a bipartisan way.. They're promising vigorous oversight, to be precise...
MULLIN: They didn't specifically name this issue. They said of the whole operation that's going on in international waters against the, these terrorist organizations trying to flood our streets...They didn't specifically name this particular situation.
None of these answers deterred Bash.
BASH: ..If they do find that the Defense Secretary gave an order to eliminate people who were already injured on a boat, which a lot of legal experts say is illegal, Mark Kelly was just here and he said it's potentially a war crime. Should Pete Hegseth face consequences?
MULLIN: Listen, you're once again making assumptions that's not even kind of accurate, I don't believe. All we're doing is talking about an assumption. This isn't been proven... Mark Kelly is saying the most ridiculous things I have ever heard right now...He's encouraging men and women uniform to question the orders of superior officers. He just got done saying that the President was racist because he doesn't like brown people.Yet I sit in front of you as a Cherokee Indian, and I'm very close friends with the President. He's losing credibility every single day. Your talking about once again is alleged over an anonymous source, which the media is really good about, always trying to name some anonymous source, but then they make a big deal about it as though this is true...I don't believe this at all...and I don't know why we are spending so much time on this...
I think I do. Dana Bash, like much of the liberal media, presented the "drug boat" accusations as fact. When shot down by the "fact" that no one has gone on the record to make these accusations, she switched to scheduled congressional hearings, non-specific to this incident, to try to make her point. Senator Mullin spoke the truth, but it really didn't distract her from her desired narrative, making Trump and Hegseth look like war criminals.
