President Donald Trump has launched another lethal strike on a fifth alleged drug smuggling boat from Venezuela, killing six people but once again offering no evidence of who or what was on board.
Amid growing international skepticism about the strikes, the president released a video on Tuesday showing a boat being blown up in international waters, taking the total number of people killed by the Trump administration as part of its campaign against “narco-terrorists” to 27 in six weeks.
“Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking, in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela,” the presi