The U.S. strikes an alleged drug boat, killing 11.
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Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Wednesday, the U.S. military sank a small boat in the southern Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people. U.S. officials claimed the boat was transporting drugs to the United States from Venezuela and alleged the 11 people on board were narco-terrorist members of the international gang Tren de Aragua (TDA). The Trump administration has not produced evidence to support its assertion, but Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said the administration “knew exactly who was in that boat.”
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| 0:29.1 | It is Thursday, September 4th, and today we're going to be talking about President Donald Trump's strike on a boat in Venezuela, allegedly a group of |
| 0:41.3 | narco-terrorists, the president's calling them, drug traffickers from Venezuela. |
| 0:46.5 | We're going to break down exactly what happened, share some views from the left and the right, |
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