Donald Trump Says Survivors of US Airstrike on ‘DRUG CARRYING SUBMARINE’ Will Be Returned to Their Countries of Origin

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President Donald Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday about the fate of two survivors of a “drug carrying submarine” that was sunk by U.S. airstrikes in the Caribbean earlier this week.

The Wall Street Journal reported that the U.S. Coast Guard rescued the survivors on Thursday and transferred them to the USS Iwo Jima for medical treatment.

“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route,” Trump wrote on Saturday, along with a video of the strike.

He continued:

U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics. There were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel. Two of the terrorists were killed. At least 25,000 Americans would die if I allowed this submarine to come ashore.

The two surviving terrorists are being returned to their Countries of origin, Ecuador and Colombia, for detention and prosecution. No U.S. Forces were harmed in this strike. Under my watch, the United States of America will not tolerate narcoterrorists trafficking illegal drugs, by land or by sea. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

This was the sixth known air strike against alleged drug runners and the first time any survivors have been reported. A total of 27 people have been killed so far in the Trump administration’s offensive against what they say are Venezuelan drug gangs transporting drugs from Latin America to the U.S.

The New York Times reported that “Venezuela plays essentially no role in the production or smuggling of fentanyl. The drug is almost entirely made in Mexico with chemicals imported from countries in Asia, including China, according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Justice Department and the Congressional Research Service.”

This week, Trump said he authorized the CIA to “take covert action in Venezuela, while also hinting that land strikes inside Venezuela could also be conducted,” the Wall Street Journal reported.

“We have a lot of drugs coming in from Venezuela, and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea,” Trump told reporters. “So, you get to see that, but we’re going to stop them by land also.”

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