What happened

President Donald Trump yesterday said he had ordered a second deadly military strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat from Venezuela, killing three people in international waters. Like the attack earlier this month that killed 11 alleged drug runners, yesterday’s strike was widely condemned by legal experts, who said Trump had no authority to order extrajudicial executions of noncombatants.

Who said what

Trump said on social media the Venezuelans “narcoterrorists” had been “positively identified” before the strike, but he did not provide more information other than a video of the boat floating at sea, then exploding in flames. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that if they wanted proof the boat was carrying drugs, “all you have to do is look at the cargo — it

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