Good evening. It's Tuesday, September 4th.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. I know some of you have been a bit cantankerous about the fact that we've missed several shows this week, Tuesday and Wednesday after the Labor Day holiday as well as last week. It's because I've been traveling a lot. I just have this lingering flu. I think it keeps going away. Then it comes back. I go back and do the show. Then it comes back. I believe it's gone for good now. So hopefully we can maintain our regular schedule, which, as you know, is every Monday through Friday, 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble.

Now tonight, the Trump administration proudly announced yesterday that it blew up a small

speedboat out of the water near Venezuela.

It claimed that Trump administration did, without presenting even a shred of evidence, that

the boat carried 11 members of the Trenda-Aragua

gang and that the boat was filled with drugs. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose lifelong

dream has been engineering coups and regime changes in Latin American countries like Venezuela

and Cuba, claimed at first that the boat was headed toward the nearby island nation of Trinidad.

But after President Trump claimed that the boat was actually headed to the United States,

where it intended to drop all sorts of drugs into the country, Secretary of State Rubio

changed his story to align with Trumps and claimed that the boat was in fact headed to

the United States.

There are numerous vital issues and questions here. First, have Trump supporters not learn the

lesson yet that when the U.S. government makes assertions and claims to justify its violence,

that evidence ought to be required, but for simply assuming that political leaders are telling the

truth?

Second, what is the basis, the legal or constitutional basis that permits Donald Trump to simply

order boats in international waters to be bombed with U.S. helicopters or drones instead of,

for example, interdicting the boat if you believe there's drugs

on it to actually prove that the people are guilty before just evaporating them off of the planet.

And then third, and perhaps most importantly, is all of this, as it seems, merely a prelude to get

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