In a post on his Truth Social platform, US President Donald Trump strongly defended the US military attack on a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Tuesday, September 2. Trump claimed the boat was operated by members of the notorious Venezuelan Tren de Aragua cartel and that it contained drugs bound for the United States.
Trump wrote, in his characteristic style, using unusual capital letters: “Earlier this morning, at my direction, the United States military conducted an airstrike against identified Tren de Aragua terrorists operating in the Southern Command area of responsibility.
The Tren de Aragua cartel is a designated foreign terrorist organization, operating under the control of Nicolás Maduro, and is responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terrorism in the United States and throughout the Western Hemisphere.” The attack occurred while the terrorists were in international waters transporting illegal drugs to the United States. Eleven terrorists were killed during the operation.
No U.S. soldiers were injured in the strike. Please consider this a warning to anyone considering smuggling drugs into the United States. Caution! Thank you for your attention!
But according to a high-ranking Pentagon insider interviewed by The Intercept on condition of anonymity, the attack was illegal.