Trump, strike and Drug Boats
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Between threatening to strike the country and resuming repatriation flights for migrants, the US president is sending mixed signals. Meanwhile, his unprecedented military deployment in the Caribbean i
Trump said he supports releasing footage of second military strike on an alleged drug boat in Caribbean waters, amid growing scrutiny over operations in the region.
Pete Hegseth’s conduct is a case study in how the government’s growing sense of heedlessness and unaccountability is shaping disastrous policy.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who fell out with Trump over his handling of the Epstein files, has voiced opposition to regime change in Venezuela. She has broken with Trump over other foreign policy issues in the past as well. “Fix health insurance. Not regime change in Venezuela,” she wrote Monday on X.
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GOP says Trump facing tougher scrutiny for Caribbean strikes than Obama did for drone program
Senate Republicans contended that the strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean Sea were meant to stymie the flow of drugs into the country.
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Sen. Kelly slams Trump, calls for investigation into Caribbean strikes and for Hegseth to testify
Kelly slammed Hegseth, calling him "unqualified for this position" and saying Hegseth should testify concerning the boat strikes in the Caribbean Sea where two survivors were allegedly killed after a second strike was authorized on a boat suspected of ferrying drugs in September.
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'You don't see any fishing rods': Trump mumbles weak excuses when reporter presses him on evidence of drug boats in the Caribbean
During a roundtable discussion at the White House several weeks ago in October, a reporter asked Donald Trump if he planned on capturing an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean to show proof that they're actually drug boats.
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Donald Trump can use force as he sees fit: Pete Hegseth
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth defended recent military strikes on boats linked to alleged drug cartels, saying President Donald Trump has the authority to take action “as he sees fit” to safeguard the nation.