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On the recordSeptember 5, 2025
I’d say we smoked the drug boat, and there’s eleven narco terrorists at the bottom of the ocean.
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Pete Hegseth

Editor's note · Context

Hegseth comments on the outcome of the military strike against a drug boat.

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