President Donald Trump was quickly grilled for leaping on the defense of a U.S. military strike.

Trump announced earlier this month that 11 people were killed on a boat departing from Venezuela that was allegedly carrying illegal narcotics. The country’s interior minister, Diosdado Cabello, has condemned the attack as “murder” and said that local investigations found no evidence that any of the victims were members of the Tren de Aragua gang or drug traffickers. He accused U.S. Navy personnel of boarding a tuna boat carrying nine fishermen.

When asked on Sunday if Trump was worried about further escalations in the Caribbean, as Venezuela framed the attack as “illegal,” he responded: “What’s illegal are the drugs that were on the boat, and the drugs that are being sent into our co

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