Senator Reaches Damning Conclusions After Classified Briefing With Hegseth, Rubio
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Sen. Chris Murphy trashed a meeting with the Cabinet duo about the Trump administration's boat bombings.
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said a classified meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday proved the Trump administration has no legal or strategic justification for the deadly strikes on alleged smugglers at sea ― and they’re wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. (Watch the clip below.)
Murphy, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, claimed the two Cabinet officials “scurried out of there before they could actually get asked any tough questions.”
“While I obviously can’t tell you any classified information I learned, I can tell you this: that the administration had no legal justification for these strikes and had no national security justification for these strikes,” Murphy said in a video on X.
He said Hegseth and Rubio admitted that no fentanyl is coming out of Venezuela ― despite President Donald Trump’s misleading attempts to tie the country to the drug so he can justify the attacks. Cocaine is flowing out of the South American country, Murphy said, yet nearly all of it is going to Europe.
“So we are spending billions of your taxpayer dollars to wage a war in the Caribbean to stop cocaine from going from Venezuela to Europe,” Murphy said. “That is a massive waste of national security resources and of your taxpayer dollars.”
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