If there is nothing truly damaging to President Donald Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files, he and his administration did a great job of making it look like there could be. How else to explain their promises of full transparency, their sudden and inexplicable U-turn, and then their (ultimately unsuccessful) efforts to fight Congress' push to get the files? It seems the administration didn't learn its lesson from that episode. Because it looks like history could be repeating with the boat strikes video.
Trump and the administration sound as though they've suddenly gotten cold feet about releasing full video of the September strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean that killed survivors. This despite Trump having said plainly less than a week ago that the administration would release it.
While the strikes were already controversial and legally dubious, experts say that the US military killing survivors could be a war crime.
Trump said Wednesday that "whatever they have, we'd certainly release, no problem."
But pretty much everything since then suggests the administration wishes he hadn't made that pledge.
"I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out a little. Like I'm having a really different time having sympathy for these guys who 10 seconds earlier were almost taken out by the initial bomb but because they managed to get ejected a little too soon had to be taken out in the water. I realize legally it might make a difference but truly it's a tough case to get sympathy from the American people"
--Megyn Kelly, saying the quiet part out loud.
www.latintimes.com
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