Trump says Hegseth told him he didn't order killing of boat crew
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President Donald Trump said Sunday that he has "great confidence" that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not give a spoken order to kill all crew members aboard a vessel suspected of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea in September.
Trump said Hegseth told him "he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent."
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