Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Friday bashed former President Joe Biden‘s perceived weak handling of drug trafficking in defense of kinetic strikes against Caribbean drug boats.

The Department of War has come under criticism following a report from the Washington Post that Hegseth gave a verbal order to “kill everyone” in a Sept. 2 strike against an alleged drug trafficking boat, resulting in a second strike that killed two survivors clinging onto the wreckage. The DOW vehemently denied the story, saying the whole narrative was “fabricated.”