President Trump will do “whatever it takes” to defend the United States from Venezuela-based “terrorist” drug gangs, United Nations ambassador Mike Waltz vowed Thursday.

Waltz doubled down after Trump revealed he had authorized the CIA to start engaging in clandestine anti-government operations within Venezuela as he pushes ahead his drug smuggling crackdown.

“These are designated terrorist gangs,” Waltz told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.” 5

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“President Trump is going to do whatever it takes and use all the tools in the toolkit from the intelligence community, from the Department of War, and of course, diplomatically, to defend US sovereignty against actions that are actively killing Americans.”

It comes after Trump on Wednesday confirmed his covert CIA orders and said he was weighi

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