Originally: defector.com

It’s not rhetorical to say Trump “murdered” these 14 people. It’s not a way of saying that I personally disagree with the way he chose to use military power—that his use of the country’s killing power seems to me to be disproportionate, or unwisely chosen, or unpersuasively justified. It’s not a claim that what the president is now doing is tantamount to murder, or morally indistinguishable from murder, or that it shares the practical characteristics of murder. Murder is the straightforward description of the relationship between what Trump said he did and why he said he did it. These 14 people were on boats that the president said were being used to smuggle drugs, so he killed them.