Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth introduced Friday that the navy is sending an plane service to the coast of South America to assist perform President Donald Trump’s unlawful extrajudicial murders of supposed “narcoterrorists.”
“In support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism in defense of the Homeland, the Secretary of War has directed the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and embarked carrier air wing to the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR),” Protection spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X.
He continued, “The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere. These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.”
Venezuelan immigrants are taken to the CECOT jail in El Salvador as a part of President Donald Trump’s struggle on Tren de Aragua.
Trump has ramped up his assaults—that are being accomplished with out congressional approval—on boats off the coast of South America, claiming that they’re bringing medicine to the US. The assaults have killed many individuals, none of whom the Trump administration has confirmed had been even carrying medicine.
On Thursday night time, Hegseth introduced that the navy carried out one more boat strike, killing all six individuals who had been onboard. He claimed that the boat was operated by Tren de Aragua, the gang Trump deemed a terrorist group to justify deporting Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador.
“The vessel was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics,” Hegseth wrote on X. “Six male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters—and was the first strike at night. All six terrorists were killed and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.”
Overseas leaders have criticized Trump’s assaults, with Colombian President Gustavo Petro saying, “U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial waters.”
However Trump—who has lengthy whined that he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize—has defended the killings, saying that he has no plans to hunt congressional approval.
“Well, I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, okay? We’re going to kill them, you know? They’re going to be, like, dead. Okay?” he stated Thursday.
However even some Republicans aren’t on board with Trump murdering individuals with out congressional approval or due course of.
“You have to present evidence,” he stated. “So all these people have been blown up without us knowing their name, without any evidence of a crime.”
