{"id":2597389,"date":"2026-04-30T22:35:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-congressman-suggests-execution-for-pete-hegseth\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:37:35","slug":"democratic-congressman-suggests-execution-for-pete-hegseth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-congressman-suggests-execution-for-pete-hegseth\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Congressman Suggests Execution for Pete Hegseth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-congressman-suggests-execution-for-pete-hegseth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2597389&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>democratic Rep. Seth Moulton tells CNN that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth should be executed for allegedly committing \u201cwar crimes,\u201d claiming the U.S. military struck drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean and then followed up to kill survivors, including a \u201cdouble tap\u201d attack. He argues this resembles WWII-era executions of Nazi submarine commanders.<\/p>\n<p>The article disputes Moulton\u2019s analogy by citing a Naval History account of the WWII case: the German U-boat that sank the Greek ship Peleus later machine-gunned survivors clinging to wreckage for hours and the commanders were convicted and executed in Hamburg in 1945. It also adds that the Peleus sank so quickly that lifeboats couldn\u2019t be launched and that there were later survivors found and rescued.<\/p>\n<p>the piece contends the people targeted in the modern incident were treated differently and that an admiral told Congress the survivors were communicating with a drug network and attempting to continue their drug run-making them legitimate targets for further attack. It portrays Moulton as either misunderstanding or ignoring these distinctions and criticizes CNN\u2019s lack of challenge during the interview.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>It was a message that was implicit, but unmistakable.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts used an interview with CNN Wednesday to accuse Secretary of War Pete Hegseth of being guilty of \u201cwar crimes\u201d for his handling of the American military and its attacks on suspected drug runners bearing deadly cargo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-trump-right-strike-narcoterrorist-boats-reach-shores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destined for U.S. shores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the punishment, Moulton implied, is execution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Less than a week after an assassin tried to kill the President and the War Secretary, Democrat Rep. Seth Moulton says Pete Hegseth should be executed:<\/p>\n<p>Erin Burnett: \u201cDo you believe that the Secretary of Defense is guilty of war crimes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moulton: \u201cAbsolutely. I mean, he\u2019s\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XYMyGDZQww\">pic.twitter.com\/XYMyGDZQww<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Julia (@Jules31415) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jules31415\/status\/2049882434376781852?\">April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container = document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!container) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script = document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src = \"https:\/\/player.anyclip.com\/anyclip-widget\/lre-widget\/prod\/v1\/src\/lre.js\"; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"pubname\", \"westernjournalcom\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.setAttribute(\"widgetname\", \"001w000001jULVcAAO_M12924\");  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ append inside the container so player shows in correct spot \t\t\t\t\t\tcontainer.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement = document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex = paragraphs.findIndex(p => p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex === -1 || targetIndex < x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer = new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries) => { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry => { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadAnyclip(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #anyclipvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve = findPreviousParagraph(\"#anyclipvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>\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 \u2014 are even on the boats,\u201d Moulton told CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, in fact, there\u2018s a lot of evidence that these are just fishermen, you know, getting jobs, piloting these boats, trying to feed their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t enough to accuse Hegseth of masterminding what amounts to murder. Moulton had to go even further, recalling the September strike by the U.S. military on a vessel in the Caribbean Sea that used a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/late-breaking-wildly-unexpected-twist-nyt-rides-hegseths-rescue-demolishes-wapos-kill-hit-piece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">follow-up attack<\/a> to get those who survived the first.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd on top of that, we then have the strike where they came back and hit it again \u2014 a double tap \u2014 just purely to kill these survivors who were clinging to wreckage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moulton continued, ominously: \u201cYou know, it\u2018s interesting, Erin, another historical analogy: 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 Moulton said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cListen to that, Mr. Secretary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moulton had at least part of his story correct. But it\u2019s what he didn\u2019t get right that matters the most.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usni.org\/magazines\/naval-history-magazine\/1997\/february\/peleus-war-crimes-trial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Naval History<\/a>, a magazine of the private, nonprofit U.S. Naval Institute, the Nazis in question were German Navy <a href=\"https:\/\/uboat.net\/men\/commanders\/232.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kapit\u00e4nleutnant Heinz-Wilhelm Eck<\/a>, commander of the Kriegsmarine U-boat 852, and two immediate subordinates. Their submarine sank a Greek cargo ship, the Peleus, in the South Atlantic in 1944, then machine-gunned survivors clinging to the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>They were convicted of war crimes and executed in Hamburg, Germany, on Nov. 30, 1945, six months after Germany\u2019s surrender.<\/p>\n<p>What Moulton is ignoring, among other things, is that the admiral who commanded the September attack <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/admiral-tells-congress-good-reason-ordering-second-strike-drug-boat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Congress<\/a> in December that the men who survived the initial strike were communicating with other elements in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/admiral-tells-congress-he-had-a-good-reason-for-ordering-second-strike-on-drug-boat\/\" title=\"Admiral Tells Congress He Had a Good Reason for Ordering Second Strike on Drug Boat\">drug-smuggling network<\/a> and \u201cattempting to continue their drug run, making them and the already<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/admiral-bradley-to-tell-congress-boat-strike-survivors-were-legitimate-targets\/\" title=\"Admiral Bradley to tell Congress boat strike ... were \u2018...\u2019\">-damaged vessel legitimate targets<\/a> for another attack,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/national-security\/survivors-of-boat-strike-were-actively-continuing-drug-mission-admiral-to-tell-lawmakers-b82f0ab3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also ignoring some key facts about the 1944 case.<\/p>\n<p>After the submarine\u2019s torpedoes struck the Peleus at about 7:30 p.m., March 13, 1944, according to Naval History, the ship sank in only three minutes, leaving no time to even launch lifeboats.<\/p>\n<p>About a dozen survivors of the sunken freighter gathered in the area, \u201cclinging to rafts and floating debris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eck had one of the ship\u2019s officers summoned aboard his U-boat for questioning, then released him back to his raft, assuring him \u201cthat Allied help would come the next day,\u201d the magazine noted.<\/p>\n<p>The U-boat then departed, only to stop about 1,000 yards away to begin an attack on the wreckage and rafts that were left of the Peleus \u2014 and the sailors who\u2019d survived the sinking. Intermittently, for the next five hours, the Germans fired machine guns and lobbed hand grenades at the wreckage, Naval History reported.<\/p>\n<p>The submarine finally left about 1 a.m. March 14.<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, four Peleus sailors lived through the ordeal. Three of them survived more than a month adrift and were eventually picked up by a Portuguese freighter, according to Naval History. News of the atrocity spread.<\/p>\n<p>When U-boat 852 was attacked by the British Navy and run aground in May 1944 off the eastern coast of Africa, its log was captured. Between the written evidence and interviews with the U-boat\u2019s crew, the British military knew it had the submarine that had sunk the Peleus, and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>Moulton calls that \u201cthe exact same thing\u201d as what happened in September? He apparently doesn\u2019t know what \u201cexact\u201d means. Or what \u201csame\u201d means. And may even be foggy on \u201cthing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is literally no comparison between the actions of the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >military attacking narcoterrorists bent<\/a> on continuing their mission and the <em>five-hour<\/em>, systematic slaughter of sailors at sea committed by the Nazi commander and his crew \u2014 a slaughter that occurred after the targeted men were given assurances that they would be left unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>That was cold-blooded murder.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s a good chance that Moulton had no idea of the real story about the executed war criminals he was talking about. It\u2019s an even better chance that he didn\u2019t care. After all, if leftists could learn from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-communism-killed-100-million-people-society-celebrates-greater-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lessons of history<\/a>, they wouldn\u2019t be leftists.<\/p>\n<p>All he was trying to do was smear the Trump administration and its secretary of war by comparing it to one of the cruelest regimes in human history \u2014 and hinting there is a realistic case for literally executing one of its senior members.<\/p>\n<p>What might be even more troubling was the reaction \u2014 or non-reaction \u2014 of CNN\u2019s Burnett. As a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/29\/us\/video\/ebof-iran-war-congressman-seth-moulton-hegseth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the full video<\/a> of the interview shows, she made no effort to challenge Moulton\u2019s statement about Hegseth or even seem to consider it noteworthy at all.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she jumped right ahead to Trump\u2019s relationship with NATO allies \u2014 which just gave Moulton a new angle of attack on the president.<\/p>\n<p>Moulton\u2019s problem \u2014 aside from being the kind of fool who\u2019s too easily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/late-breaking-illegal-dems-brought-state-union-turned-sexual-assault-reports-involved-juveniles-police-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blindsided by his own ideology<\/a> \u2014 is that he succumbed to the Democratic temptation to portray everything and anything associated with President Donald Trump as an incarnation of the Fourth Reich.<\/p>\n<p>And he took the current Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/full-whcd-shooter-manifesto-told-family-willing-kill-everyone-dinner-get-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fascination with assassination<\/a> to a new level, with the implicit threat of execution for the Trump cabinet secretary in charge of the American military.<\/p>\n<p>As implicit as it was, it was impossible not to understand.<\/p>\n<p>And CNN treated it as if it didn\u2019t matter at all.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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