Pentagon Pete's Own Troops Ridicule Him With Dark Nickname [View all]

President Donald Trump’s defense secretary has overseen so many alleged atrocities that his department has earned a horrifying new nickname from the people who work there.

“I know active-duty Marines who now refer to Pete Hegseth’s department as the Department of War Crimes,” Rep. Seth Moulton, himself a Marine combat veteran, told MS NOW.

“That’s because they do things like this, destroy civilian infrastructure, which, just to be clear, is a war crime,” the Massachusetts Democrat went on, referring to Trump’s intention, announced Wednesday, to begin targeting Iranian civilian energy infrastructure as part of the his war on Iran.

“It’s meant to hurt civilians,” Moulton went on. “This is the same stuff we criticized Vladimir Putin for doing in Ukraine.”

The “Department of War Crimes” moniker combines Hegseth’s rebrand of the Department of Defense as the “Department of War” with the accusations he has faced of carrying out war crimes and other violations of international law in pursuit of the president’s foreign policy agenda.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pete-hegseths-own-troops-ridicule-his-rebrand-with-dark-new-nickname/

Seems fitting.