President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform Tuesday that he ordered U.S. military forces to conduct a strike against an alleged drug boat that he claimed was connected to a South American gang.
The president said the “kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility.”
The attack took place while the boat was “at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States,” according to Trump.
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