Pete Hegseth's world is collapsing

Evidence is starting to catch up with the Trump admin

The Trump administration told the world they were “investigating.”

Now the evidence is catching up with them.

New reporting from investigative journalists at Bellingcat and researcher Trevor Ball appears to confirm something horrifying about the opening days of the Trump administration’s war with Iran. Footage that has now been reviewed and geolocated shows that US Tomahawk missiles struck a girls’ primary school in southern Iran. Roughly 180 people were killed. About 160 of them were children.

Let that sink in.

For days, the administration tried to dodge questions about the strike. At a Pentagon briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked directly whether the US knew whose munitions hit the school.

His response was simple.

“We’re investigating.”

That answer became the administration’s shield. Whenever reporters pressed for clarity, they fell back on the same line. Investigation ongoing. No confirmation yet. No responsibility accepted.

But the timeline never made sense.

The strike happened during the opening phase of the conflict, before Iran had even begun retaliating. That fact alone undercut Donald Trump’s claim that Iran might have been responsible.

Still, Trump tried.

When asked whether the United States bombed the school and killed more than a hundred children, Trump brushed it off and suggested Iran might have done it.

“My opinion based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Trump said.

That claim is now collapsing.

Investigators analyzing the footage found evidence pointing directly to US Tomahawk missiles. And that detail matters for a very simple reason. Israel, America’s partner in the war, does not possess Tomahawk missiles. The United States does.

The video evidence shows a Tomahawk missile striking a nearby Iranian Revolutionary Guard target. In the background, smoke is already billowing from the direction of the school.

The missile type. The location. The timing.

All of it lines up.

Satellite comparisons and strike diagrams also match the Pentagon’s own strike maps from briefings given earlier in the conflict. The school sits within the impact zone of the missiles shown on those maps.

In other words, the evidence investigators are putting together appears to align with the US military’s own publicly released strike data.

And while journalists and analysts were piecing together what happened, the administration kept deflecting.

“We’re investigating.”

That line might not hold much longer.

The war itself already raises enormous questions. Seven US service members have now died in the conflict. The administration’s stated goals keep shifting depending on the day.

First it was about stopping an imminent threat.

Then it was about regime change.

Then it was about Iranian missile programs.

Ask ten officials and you might get ten different answers.

Meanwhile, the human cost keeps climbing.

Iran’s government is brutal and authoritarian. The Ayatollah’s regime represses its own people and punishes dissent. That is all true. But bombing civilian neighborhoods and killing schoolchildren does nothing to liberate the Iranian people.

It only creates more death.

And while this story was breaking, while new evidence of the school strike was emerging, Donald Trump spent the morning doing something else entirely.

He was golfing at his resort in Doral, Florida.

The war continues to escalate. American troops are dying. Civilians are dying. Entire cities in Iran are facing fires and explosions after oil infrastructure was hit during the fighting.

And the administration that launched the war still cannot clearly explain what the end goal is supposed to be.

Now the evidence is forcing another question into the open.

If the United States really did strike that school, how long can the administration keep pretending it is still “investigating”?

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