'Really ticked me off': Republican senator blasts Trump admin's 'disdain for human life'

One Senate Republican isn't holding back from making his feelings known about a recent military operation that President Donald Trump's administration carried out earlier this month.

Politico reported Monday that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is doubling down on his criticism of the administration's recent bombing of a boat it claimed was carrying members of a Venezuelan gang who were allegedly trafficking drugs. The attack killed 11 people, and wasn't made public until Trump posted about the operation to social media after the fact.

Paul — who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee – had previously taken aim at Vice President JD Vance after the vice president on Saturday tweeted: "Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military."

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"What a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial," Paul wrote in response to Vance's post.

The Kentucky Republican elaborated on his criticism in remarks to reporters on Monday evening, saying the vice president's comments "really ticked me off." While he didn't publicly say whether he would hold a hearing over the bombing, he lamented that "nobody’s even asking whether we need to prove [the administration's claims]. We just blow them up."

“I got no love lost for these people. But at the same time, is this the new Coast Guard policy?" Paul continued. "Almost none of the boats we’ve interdicted does it end up with us blowing up the boat."

The three-term Republican said he felt it was wrong for Vance to "glorify the idea of killing people without any due process and saying he just didn’t give a s--- what anybody who was going criticize him was going to say. That to me was a disdain for human life and a disdain for processes."

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