President Donald Trump said on Dec. 8 that he would let Secretary of War Pete Hegseth decide whether to release the video of a second strike on a drug-smuggling boat in the South Caribbean that killed two occupants who survived an initial attack on Sept. 2.
Trump previously told reporters on Dec. 3 that he didn’t know what video the Department of War had of the strike, but said that “whatever they have, we’d certainly release, no problem.”
A reporter brought up that remark during a Dec. 8 press conference, and pressed Trump on whether he would instruct Hegseth to release footage of the second strike from the Sept. 2 incident off the coast of Venezuela. Trump said: “Whatever [Hegseth] decides is OK with me.”…