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Trump says the US ‘hit’ a facility along shore where he says alleged drug boats ‘load up’
ap ^ | 12/29/2025 | MICHELLE L. PRICE

Posted on 12/29/2025 3:12:26 PM PST by know.your.why

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has indicated that the U.S. has “hit” a dock facility along a shore as he wages a pressure campaign on Venezuela, but the U.S. offered few details.
Trump initially seemed to confirm a strike in what appeared to be an impromptu radio interview Friday, and when questioned Monday by reporters about “an explosion in Venezuela,” he said the U.S. struck a facility where boats accused of carrying drugs “load up.”

“There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,” Trump said as he met in Florida with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “They load the boats up with drugs, so we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It’s the implementation area. There’s where they implement. And that is no longer around.”
It is part of an escalating effort to target what the Trump administration says are boats smuggling drugs bound for the United States. It moves closer to shore strikes that so far have been carried out by the military in international waters in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boats; crime; docks; drugboats; drugs; maduro; smuggling; venezuela

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1 posted on 12/29/2025 3:12:26 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: know.your.why

Are there no Mexican Drug “Ports”?


2 posted on 12/29/2025 3:14:11 PM PST by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: know.your.why

Good news.


3 posted on 12/29/2025 3:14:19 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: know.your.why
Subtle liberal bias, not so subtle:

"President Obama neutralizes illicit drug distribution site, reducing harm to US children."

"Trump says the US ‘hit’ a facility along shore where he says alleged drug boats ‘load up’"

4 posted on 12/29/2025 3:18:33 PM PST by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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To: know.your.why

Crap. The longshoreman’s union will be joining up with the aCLU and Planned Parenthood to give Trump and Noam a ration of crap. I’ll bet the heads of the makers of Narcan are already exploding. Here comes the Impeachment III, the Trilogy loaded with Soros’ riot troupe geezer morons trying to earn another payment for their RV playing extras holding their handmade Head Start signs.


5 posted on 12/29/2025 3:19:58 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (MAGAism is the greatest CURE for DemonRAT "Demockrazy". )
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To: Paladin2

Sure, but Americans vacation at those ports.(kidding)


6 posted on 12/29/2025 3:23:59 PM PST by madison10 ("...the dark places of the earth are full of the haunts of cruelty." Psalm 74:20b [NKJV])
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To: madison10

Like that song.

Drugs, exciting and new,
come aboard
thrills are waiting for you.🤩😊

The drug boats
are making another run.🚤
The drug boats
delivering drugs for fun.🚤

Drugs boats,
stock up after some beach Sun.🏝️🏝️🏖️


7 posted on 12/29/2025 3:38:41 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Paladin2

Probably a discrete spot along a riverbank, nothing fancy most likely, except maybe storage sheds and such.


8 posted on 12/29/2025 3:40:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Probably hit a baby milk factory


9 posted on 12/29/2025 3:46:33 PM PST by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: madison10

Trump says Americans “load up.” He’s right.

The US Government SAMSHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) says in the year 2024:

64.2 million smoked marijuana.

7.6 million people used hallucinogens.

9.1 million misused opioids.

816,000 people aged 12 or older misused prescription fentanyl or used illegally made fentanyl (IMF) in the past year, including 668,000 people who used IMF in the past year.
• However, IMF may be present without people’s knowledge in products sold as heroin or counterfeit prescription drugs that are made to look like commonly misused prescription opioids.

Detailed government report:
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUH%202024%20Annual%20Release/2024-nsduh-nnr-highlights.pdf


10 posted on 12/29/2025 3:48:23 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: know.your.why

The alleged writer of this alleged article says that Trump said that he said some allegations.


11 posted on 12/29/2025 3:49:11 PM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: Paladin2
Are there no Mexican Drug “Ports”?

Any drug port in a storm.
12 posted on 12/29/2025 3:52:14 PM PST by know.your.why
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To: know.your.why

Where the boats load.

https://www.google.com/search?q=images+resort+beaches+venezuela&sca_esv=dc6ec19e7dc4ebae&udm=2&biw=1316&bih=621&ei=jRRTaZeQBarIptQPiP_QmQY&ved=0ahUKEwjXitei_-ORAxUqpIkEHYg_NGMQ4dUDCBI&oq=images+resort+beaches+venezuela&gs_lp=Egtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZyIfaW1hZ2VzIHJlc29ydCBiZWFjaGVzIHZlbmV6dWVsYUgAUABYAHAAeACQAQCYAQCgAQCqAQC4AQzIAQCYAgCgAgCYAwCSBwCgBwCyBwC4BwDCBwDIBwCACAA&sclient=gws-wiz-img


13 posted on 12/29/2025 3:57:03 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: know.your.why

This is what a war on drugs should look like.

Fighting the drugs the way we had been is almost useless.

Dealing with the issues in people’s lives that leave them vulnerable to addiction is what needs to be done.


14 posted on 12/29/2025 4:01:17 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: know.your.why

THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!


15 posted on 12/29/2025 4:02:47 PM PST by anthropocene_x
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To: AppyPappy

This is Donald J. Trump directing the hits, not Billy Jeff Clinton known for his preference in hitting ineffectual targets, with the encouragement of then Senator Joe Biden.

Trump actually reads the intelligence reports. And the after-action summaries.


16 posted on 12/29/2025 4:14:04 PM PST by alloysteel (You gotta accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative, Latch onto the affirmative....)
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To: know.your.why

I don’t blame Trump for offering The Ape Pee few details.


17 posted on 12/29/2025 5:01:28 PM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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