{"id":24017,"date":"2026-05-03T04:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/dem-rep-compares-hegseth-to-nazi-war-criminals-invokes-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T04:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T04:44:56","slug":"dem-rep-compares-hegseth-to-nazi-war-criminals-invokes-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/03\/dem-rep-compares-hegseth-to-nazi-war-criminals-invokes-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep Compares Hegseth To Nazi War Criminals, Invokes Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton suggested that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth could be executed for war crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">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 \u201ckeep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies\u201d regarding the war with Iran, prompting Moulton to accuse Hegseth of inciting soldiers to commit war crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Burnett then turned to Moulton and asked, \u201cDo you believe that the Secretary of Defense is guilty of war crimes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Moulton answered. \u201cI mean, he\u2019s clearly behind the operation to shoot all these boats in the Caribbean when it\u2019s very unclear that we actually have any confirmation that these so-called narco-terrorists \u2014 a term the administration invented to justify this action, are even on the boats. I mean, in fact, there\u2019s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families. There\u2019s been press reporting on some of these individuals who\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">Then Moulton went beyond the pale: \u201cIt\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cListen to that, Mr. Secretary,\u201d he taunted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INSANE<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton FLAT OUT LIES to defend narcoterrorists and compares our military to \u201cNazis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MOULTON: \u201cBack in WWII the allies tried Nazi submarine captains for doing this exact same thing\u2026they got executed. Listen to that Mr. Secretary [Hegseth].\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAMSaDJ6Gg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/gAMSaDJ6Gg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/2049634784884723721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\">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:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight:400\"><em>There is absolutely no plan. The administration clearly can\u2019t even understand why they\u2019re in this war, what their strategy is to get out of it. If you look every step of the way, they\u2019re doing things, they\u2019re changing their goals. They\u2019re doing things that don\u2019t even necessarily contribute to their goals. Apparently now, their primary goal is reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which, let\u2019s be clear, was open before Trump started this war of choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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\u2019s why he\u2019s begging, he\u2019s begging our greatest adversary, the People\u2019s Republic of China. The Chinese Communist Party. He\u2019s asking to come and bail him out to reopen this Strait. It\u2019s an unmitigated disaster. It\u2019s very clear they don\u2019t have a plan going forward.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/unhinged-dem-rep-compares-hegseth-to-nazi-war-criminals-invokes-death-penalty\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201ckeep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies\u201d regarding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}