‘We hit them very hard’: Trump delivers ‘nonchalant’ confirmation of LAND strike on Venezuela
Drug boats carrying narcotics from Venezuela that would deliver death to Americans for weeks now have been targeted by the administration of President Donald Trump.
His strategy: Blow them up so those narcotics never reach, and hurt, Americans.
Now, apparently, the U.S. has delivered a strike against the launching pad for those shipments by drug cartels.
“I don’t know if you read or you saw, they have a big plant or a big facility where they send the – where the ships come from,” Trump said in a radio interview. “Two nights ago we knocked that out – so we hit them very hard.”
The “nonchalant” confirmation, according to the Daily Mail, came in a radio interview on WABC, and apparently referenced a Christmas Eve strike.
He apparently was referencing the “origination location of the alleged drug vessels that the U.S. military has been targeting in the Caribbean and Atlantic over the last three months,” the report said.
He previously had cited the maritime operations on drug boats, confirming that “soon” there would be land strikes in Venezuela.
“It’s part of a continued campaign to put pressure on Nicolas Maduro, as boat strikes don’t appear to be working to deter the so-called narco regime,” the report said.
Since September, there have been targeted strikes by the Department of War on suspected drug shipments both in the Caribbean and the Atlantic. An estimated 105 suspected drug traffickers have died in the strikes.
The report said it was unclear which U.S. forces were involved. But there was a video on X showing an explosion in the Zulia state of Venezuela near the city of Maracaibo.
A report at CNN confirmed that a “big facility” was taken out.
The report noted, “The president has also authorized covert CIA action inside Venezuela as part of the campaign to increase pressure on Maduro.”