Trump backtracks on boat strike video launch and says Hegseth will make remaining determination: Latest updates | EUROtoday

The president has stated that the choice on whether or not or to not launch footage of the lethal September 2 “double tap” missile strike on an alleged drug boat within the Caribbean rests along with his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

“Whatever Hegseth wants to do is okay with me,” the president informed reporters Monday, backtracking on his personal feedback final week that “whatever” video the Pentagon possesses “we’d certainly release, no problem,” which he now denies having stated.

When requested to decide to the publication of the video by ABC News’s senior political correspondent Rachel Scott, who merely offered Trump along with his personal phrases, the president as soon as once more lashed out, calling her “the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place. Let me just tell you: you are an obnoxious – actually a terrible – reporter and it’s always the same thing with you.”

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