UNHINGED: Dem Rep Compares Hegseth To Nazi War Criminals, Invokes Death Penalty

Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton suggested that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth could be executed for war crimes.

CNN host Erin Burnett played an exchange Moulton had with Hegseth in which Moulton attacked the War Secretary for saying the U.S. military should “keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies” regarding the war with Iran, prompting Moulton to accuse Hegseth of inciting soldiers to commit war crimes.

Burnett then turned to Moulton and asked, “Do you believe that the Secretary of Defense is guilty of war crimes?”

“Absolutely,” Moulton answered. “I mean, he’s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it’s very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narco-terrorists — a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there’s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There’s been press reporting on some of these individuals who’ve been killed who are clearly not criminals. And on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back and hit it again, a double tap, just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage.”

Then Moulton went beyond the pale: “It’s interesting, Erin, back in World War II, the Allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing. And guess what the conclusion was? They got executed.”

“Listen to that, Mr. Secretary,” he taunted.

INSANE

Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton FLAT OUT LIES to defend narcoterrorists and compares our military to “Nazis.”

MOULTON: “Back in WWII the allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing…they got executed. Listen to that Mr. Secretary [Hegseth].” pic.twitter.com/gAMSaDJ6Gg

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In late March, Moulton appeared on CNN with host Anderson Cooper, where he huffed and puffed about the U.S. losing the war with Iran, saying:

There is absolutely no plan. The administration clearly can’t even understand why they’re in this war, what their strategy is to get out of it. If you look every step of the way, they’re doing things, they’re changing their goals. They’re doing things that don’t even necessarily contribute to their goals. Apparently now, their primary goal is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which, let’s be clear, was open before Trump started this war of choice.

So, the reality is, at this moment, we are losing this war. If Trump were to stop the war tonight, he would have to negotiate with the Iranians to reopen the strait that they have closed. That’s why he’s begging, he’s begging our greatest adversary, the People’s Republic of China. The Chinese Communist Party. He’s asking to come and bail him out to reopen this Strait. It’s an unmitigated disaster. It’s very clear they don’t have a plan going forward.