Well, here we go again — another day, another legal meltdown over national security, brought to you by the same people who just last week couldn’t decide whether Trump’s border wall was racist or common sense. But this time, it’s a former Fox News colleague making waves — and not the good kind.
Judge Andrew Napolitano — you remember him, right? The constitutional purist who flips between libertarian outrage and legal sermonizing like he’s trying to win an Oscar has decided to go full courtroom drama on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. His claim? That Hegseth allegedly committed a war crime by ordering the killing of two survivors clinging to a burning drug boat in international waters.
Yep, you read that right. War crime.
Never mind the drug-smuggling operation. Never mind the fact that this was allegedly part of a broader operation targeting international narco syndicates — which, let’s be honest, aren’t exactly running bake sales and lemonade stands. No, Judge Napolitano thinks the real threat to American integrity is a former Army officer and combat veteran trying to take decisive action under wartime protocol. Because, according to the judge, we should’ve sent a rescue boat and some warm cocoa to the people hauling poison toward our shores.
Now look, nobody’s saying this doesn’t deserve scrutiny. Of course it does. We’re a nation of laws. But can we also recognize the absurdity of having a national freak-out over the definition of “self-defense” while fentanyl rips through American communities like a wildfire? The same people who were completely fine with drone strikes under Obama now want to handcuff military commanders for making tough calls in real time — because someone at a Georgetown dinner party might get the vapors over the Geneva Conventions.
Napolitano went hard, no question. He accused Hegseth of allegedly ordering a “murder,” said the White House’s self-defense claim was nonsense, and even floated the possibility of executions under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And of course, he said all this while making sure we knew how much he didn’t want to say it. Classic.
Even hard right judge Andrew Napolitano is adamant that what the US is doing to the boats in the Caribbean and Pacific is a war crime, from the secretary of defence down to the guy who pulls the trigger.pic.twitter.com/i0E83rHgDy
— CS Blennerhassett 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇪🇺 (@CSBlenner) December 3, 2025
Now, if you believe the Biden-era Pentagon or CNN were still in charge, maybe this would all sound plausible — but under President Trump, let’s be real. This isn’t about some rogue military move. It’s part of a strategic, hardline push to dismantle the international drug cartels bleeding our country dry. And while Napolitano gets bogged down in legal hairsplitting over whether a speedboat 1,500 miles from the U.S. technically counts as a threat, most Americans are a little more focused on, you know, not dying from overdoses.
But here’s the kicker: Napolitano’s problem isn’t with legality — it’s with political optics. He says “narco terrorist” isn’t a legal term, as if that somehow discredits the threat. Please. Neither is “domestic extremist,” and yet the DOJ throws that term around like candy on Halloween when they’re talking about parents at school board meetings. But when actual armed traffickers get taken out by the military? Suddenly, we need a law school lecture about maritime combat ethics.
And what’s with the left suddenly caring about the Constitution again? These are the same folks who cheered when Biden tried to force vaccines on everyone with a pulse, spent trillions we didn’t have, and tried to cancel free speech because someone tweeted a frog meme. But now we’re supposed to believe they’re deeply concerned about federal law and due process — for drug traffickers.
So let’s put this plainly: If the military, under lawful command, takes out a boat allegedly ferrying drugs to our shores, in a region crawling with cartel operatives who don’t play by any rules, maybe the story isn’t about what went wrong — maybe it’s about what finally went right.
Reporter: ‘What law is it that allows no survivors?’
WH: ‘SELF-DEFENSE’.
Laughable! pic.twitter.com/90iTVNgsOo
— Judge Napolitano (@Judgenap) December 2, 2025
Because while the judge clutches his pearls and lectures us on the finer points of the UCMJ, parents in Ohio and West Virginia are burying teenagers who overdosed on synthetic garbage trafficked by people just like the ones on that boat.
And honestly, if Napolitano’s biggest concern is whether we hurt a narco’s feelings in international waters, maybe he should take a seat — or better yet, a trip to the southern border. Preferably one without cameras, lawyers, or air conditioning.
