“The Washington Post report was about the first such attack on September 2nd,” O’Donnell said.

“Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck,” O’Donnell added. “The special operations commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions. Two people familiar with the matter said the two men were blown apart in the water.”

The “Last Word” host suggested during his monologue that these strikes are a distraction.

“There is no war in Venezuela,” said O’Donnell. “There will never be a war in Venezuela. Donald Trump foolishly decided to publicly play with the idea of war in Venezuela to distract from the Epstein files, a distraction that has failed miserably.”

O’Donnell noted that the commander overseeing the September strike, Adm. Frank M. Bradley, said during a conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets “because they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them.”

The survivors were killed in a second strike.

“Today, the White House press secretary, who has never conducted a press briefing without lying, said that Adm. Bradley issued the order for a second strike on his own without Pete Hegseth telling him to do that,” said O’Donnell about Karoline Leavitt.

He continued, “And Donald Trump’s first instinct, as we know, is always to lie about everything. And so, when asked about this, the very first words out of his mouth were, ‘I don’t know anything about it.’ That’s a classic Trump statement. He always says that.”

Trump indeed claimed ignorance Sunday when asked about the incident, telling reporters he “wouldn’t have wanted” a second strike. O’Donnell went on to quote Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), who received a classified briefing on the matter in October.