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Going Deeper Inside the ‘Kill Them All’ Order…Rumors…Receipts…and the Hegseth Dirt File

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Nov 30, 2025
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Going Deeper Inside the ‘Kill Them All’ Order…Rumors…Receipts…and the Hegseth Dirt File

The Jack Hopkins Now Newsletter #667: Saturday, November 29th, 2025.

Author’s note:

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You saw the free piece.

You saw the phrase.

“Kill everybody.” / “Kill them all.”

Now let’s do what almost nobody on TV ever does:

  • Separate what we actually know

  • From what insiders are really whispering

  • From the weaponized rumors swirling around Pete Hegseth

  • And then build a working hypothesis about what likely happened inside that room when the order allegedly went down.

This is your intel version…the one for people who don’t just want outrage…

They want pattern recognition.

1. Quick Recap: What We Actually Know (Not Twitter, Not Vibes)

Here’s the hard floor of fact…as of early afternoon…November 29, 2025:

  • September 1–2, 2025: A U.S. strike hits a boat in the Caribbean, killing 11 people. Trump publicly hails it as the first in a new campaign against “narco-terrorists.”

  • The boat is alleged to be linked to Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang. The U.S. has not produced public evidence.

  • According to The Washington Post…citing two people with direct knowledge… Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive before the strike: “Kill everybody” / “Kill them all.” When two survivors are seen clinging to wreckage, a second strike is ordered and they are killed.

  • This strike kicks off a broader campaign: at least 21+ strikes on 22 vessels…more than 80 people killed in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific.

  • The Trump administration claims a “non-international armed conflict” with cartels that supposedly makes these killings lawful war measures.

  • UN human-rights experts and Human Rights Watch have already said the strikes amount to extrajudicial executions and violate international human-rights law because they’re happening outside any recognized armed conflict.

New since yesterday:

  • A bipartisan group on the Senate Armed Services Committee is now promising “vigorous oversight” into the allegation that survivors were deliberately killed.

  • At least one senior military lawyer was reportedly sidelined after objecting to the legality of the campaign.

  • Hegseth has gone on offense…calling the reporting “fake news,” defending the strikes as “lethal, kinetic” and legal…and throwing out lines like:

“Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them.”

So: that’s the table.

Now let’s talk about the rumors…and what they actually add up to.

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