President Donald Trump said the U.S. military struck a boat off the coast of Venezuela on Friday that he claimed was “loaded with enough drugs to kill 25 TO 50 THOUSAND PEOPLE.”

In a post on Truth Social, Trump announced the strike, which officials said targeted a vessel linked to a terrorist organization.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the vessel was affiliated with a designated terrorist group and that four “narco-terrorists” were killed in the operation.

“The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics — headed to America to poison our people,” Hegseth said in a statement on X.

It was the fourth known strike on a boat the administration said was attempting to smuggle drugs int

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