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This morning, I hosted another episode of DEFIANCE Radio, our LIVE morning news broadcast, featuring top stories about threats to America from within.

If you can believe it, the boat strikes controversy continues — and it continues to get worse for the Trump administration.

New reporting shows that the Pentagon not only knew there were survivors from the boat strike against alleged drug smugglers on Sept 2, but that they were alive for more than an hour and climbed back into the boat before the decision was made to kill them…

Naturally, the words “war crime” are going to be staying in our vocabulary for a while…

What’s more, another report reveals that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed out the top general who oversees U.S. forces in the region where the boat strikes have been happening, not long after the admiral questioned the legality of the orders…

And all of this is compounded by a report from the Pentagon inspector general, which found that Hegseth mishandled classified war plans and shared them via cell phone, possibly putting U.S. troops in danger…

Which is why Republicans in Congress are starting to grumble… and even suggesting Hegseth’s ouster… we’ll get to that…

Then I want to update you on what Democrats are doing to hold corporate feet to the fire over donations to Trump’s ballroom… you won’t be shocked to find that companies are not making those donations out of generosity or a love of ballroom dancing … but for something else…

And finally, our “who is joining the defiance” segment today has a great audio clip… the person who is joining the defiance just gave a smackdown lecture to cowardly business leaders who are too scared to stand up to Donald Trump… and that clip may show you why this person is angling not just to join the defiance, but to lead it…

The first part of DEFIANCE Radio is available for replay for all subscribers for free (above). The back portion and Q&A is available to paid subscribers only, though today we had to skip it! Paid subscribers still get to see my “raw” show notes and script — misspelling and all! — including links to the top stories we covered in the broadcast. See below the line.

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