A sitting member of Congress just accused the President of the United States and the Secretary of War of plotting to murder American citizens — and he did it on live television without offering a single shred of evidence. If you needed a reminder of how unhinged some Democrats have become in 2025, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) just delivered it.
During an interview on CNN, Moulton lashed out at President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth over the military’s increasingly successful operations against drug-trafficking vessels. This year alone, U.S. forces have destroyed 22 cartel boats — a level of action the Biden administration never even approached. Instead of applauding the effort, Moulton went straight to hysteria.
“I mean look, the President of the United States and his Secretary of Defense are conducting murder on the high seas,” he said Sunday.
That’s not a policy disagreement. That’s a reckless smear from a man who sits on powerful committees and is supposed to understand basic national-security law. He didn’t cite a statute. He didn’t point to a briefing. He just hurled the word “murder” at a commander-in-chief taking direct action against fentanyl networks killing more Americans each year than Vietnam.
And he didn’t stop there.
“They’re committing murder and Americans should care,” Moulton continued. “Look, none of us like drug traffickers, but we have laws that say drug traffickers don’t get summarily executed.”
Then came the fear-mongering finale — the kind of thing designed to terrify viewers rather than inform them:
“Just give it time before Donald Trump starts doing this same kind of thing to people we do know right here at home.”
A Harvard-educated congressman suggested — with a straight face — that President Trump is about to start executing Americans. No evidence. No context. Just a wild, panic-inducing conspiracy theory broadcast to millions.
Moulton’s comments came after The Wall Street Journal reported on a classified DOJ memo noting that fentanyl has been designated as a chemical weapon for purposes of authorizing maritime strikes. The memo hasn’t been released, and DOJ hasn’t provided further detail — but that didn’t stop Democrats from spinning it into apocalyptic fiction.
Some lawmakers seized on rumors of a so-called “double-tap” strike last week, only for later reporting to confirm traffickers had returned to their boat to grab narcotics, prompting a second strike. Even after the clarification, Democrats kept pushing the murder narrative.
President Trump, asked about the operations, pointed to the staggering number of American deaths linked to illegal drugs and made it clear these strikes are about saving lives — not the dystopian fantasies being peddled on cable news.
The real danger isn’t Trump’s actions. It’s elected officials inventing threats to scare the public and undermine a President finally taking the drug war seriously.