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Impeachment coup: Mark Kelly says Hegseth just walked into a trap

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Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., introduced a resolution Tuesday to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth , accusing him of defying Congress and illegally continuing the U.S. war in Iran, among other crimes. However, one target of Hegseth’s alleged abuses unleashed a devastating “ I told you so” on the defense secretary. In addition to the defying Congress over the Iran War, Massie’s eight-article resolution also targets Hegseth over U.S. military operations in Venezuela and Yemen, and accuses him of illegally directing the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization. It also accuses him of carrying out extrajudicial killings . “Secretary Hegseth abused the powers entrusted to him as secretary of defense by subordinating the constitutional limits on the use of military force and the laws governing the conduct of hostilities to his own policy objectives,” said Massie, adding that Hegseth has shown “profound disregard” for the impact of U.S. mi