‘Ridiculous Question’: Trump Dodges CIA ‘Take Out’ Query On Maduro, Hints At Land Strikes| APT

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U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed a reporter’s question as “ridiculous” when asked whether the CIA had the authority to “take out” Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, amid ongoing operations targeting drug boats in the Caribbean. Trump defended his administration’s aggressive campaign, claiming the U.S. has nearly “stopped all sea-based drug smuggling” and is now considering “land strikes” against cartels. He accused Venezuela of flooding the U.S. with drugs, prisoners, and mentally ill people, saying Washington will “not let the country be ruined.” Trump declined to confirm CIA involvement but warned that Venezuela was “feeling the heat.” #US #trump #maduro #apt

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00:00Mr. President, on Venezuelans boats, I want to ask you, why not have the Coast Guard stopped them,

00:06which it is empowered by law to do? You know, this way you can confirm who's on the boat and

00:12ensure that they're doing what they would suspect. Because we've been doing that for 30 years and it

00:17has been totally ineffective. They have faster boats. Some of these boats are seriously, I mean,

00:24they're world-class speedboats and, but they're not faster than missiles. But we've been trying

00:29to do that for years. And so much of the drugs, 25, 30 percent would come in through the seas.

00:35Right now we have, I would say, none coming in through the seas. In fact, I don't know about

00:39the fishing industry. If you want to go fishing, a lot of people aren't deciding to even go fishing.

00:44We've almost totally stopped it by sea. Now we'll stop it by land. But it never worked. It never

00:51worked when, you know, when you did it in a very politically correct manner. What's the next step

00:57in this war on cartels? And are you considering options? Are you considering strikes on land?

01:02Well, I don't want to tell you exactly, but we are certainly looking at land now because we've got

01:06the sea very well under control. We've had a couple of days where there isn't a boat to be found.

01:12And that I view that as a good thing, not a bad thing. But we had tremendous amounts coming in by

01:17boats, by very expensive boats. You know, they have a lot of money, very fast, very expensive boats that

01:22were pretty big. And the way you look at it is every boat that we knock out, we save 25,000 American

01:28lives. So every time you see a boat and you feel badly, you say, wow, that's rough. It is rough. But

01:35if you lose three people and save 25,000 people, these are people that are killing our population.

01:41Every boat is saving 25,000 lives. And you can see it. The boats get hit. And you see that fentanyl all

01:47over the ocean. It's like floating in bags. It's all over the place. And it's a it's a tremendous

01:54state. We're saving tremendous amounts of lives. Why did you authorize the CIA to go into Venezuela?

02:01And is there more information you can share about these strikes on the alleged? Well, I can't do that.

02:06But I authorized for two reasons, really. Number one, they have emptied their prisons into the United

02:12States of America. They came in through the well, they came in through the border. They came in

02:19because we had an open border policy. And as soon as I heard that, I said a lot of these countries,

02:23they're not the only country, but they're the worst abuser. And they've entered there. They've

02:28they've allowed thousands and thousands of prisoners, mental institution, people from mental

02:35institutions, insane asylums emptied out into the United States. We're bringing them back. But that's a

02:41really bad. And they did it at a level that probably not many, many countries have done it,

02:46but not like Venezuela. They were down and dirty. And the other thing are drugs. We have a lot of

02:50drugs coming in from Venezuela and a lot of the Venezuelan drugs come in through the sea. So you

02:55get to see that. But we're going to stop them by land also. Does the CIA have authority to take out

03:00Maduro? Oh, I don't want to answer a question like that. That's a ridiculous question for me to be

03:05given. Not really a ridiculous question, but wouldn't it be a ridiculous question for me to

03:10answer? But I think Venezuela is feeling heat. But I think a lot of other countries are feeling

03:15heat, too. We're not going to let this country, our country, be ruined because other people want

03:21to drop, as you say, their worst. They have given us their worst. They've loaded up our country with

03:27prisoners, with mentally ill people that are seriously ill, criminally ill. And we're not

03:34going to take it. And so, I mean, it's just one of those things. And I can tell you, we've taken

03:39care of the sea. There's nobody. And we're watching. We're watching. And if we see it, we'll save it.

03:44Yeah, please.

03:45On the ships, though, sir, there are Republicans and Democrats up on the Hill concerned that in the

03:50briefings they've gotten about those attacks, they're not necessarily getting information about who was

03:55on them and what exactly was on those ships. Can you? Well, well, but they are given information

04:00that they were loaded up with drugs. And that's the thing that matters when they're loaded up with

04:05drugs. They're fair game. And every one of those ships were they're not ships. They're their boats.

04:10They're speedboats. They're extremely fast, record setting type speedboats. It cost a lot of money and

04:16they have a lot of money because they're drug sellers. But they know one thing and they all have the same

04:22thing in common. There's there's drug dust. They call it drug dust. They call it fentanyl dust

04:28all over the boat after those bombs go off. And you can take a long we know we know before we know

04:36when they go out. We know we have much information about each boat that goes out deep, strong information.

04:52science.

04:55They call it.

04:58Just confirm that we have people who are люблю.

05:01Some people who are some reallyлись from their lives in the deepestTIME of war .

05:05I've heard a lot of Mooji, but I think of this place that I wasn't doing right now.

05:08I'm just doing it right now.

05:13This place exists right now.

05:15ICE."

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