Trump Drug Boat Bombings Take Darker Turn as Damning New Facts Emerge

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Several weeks after President Trump ordered a military strike on a small boat in the Caribbean Sea, killing 11 people supposedly suspected of drug smuggling, this saga has gotten much worst. Last Monday, Trump bombed another vessel, killing three. Again his administration released zero evidence supporting the decision, and the specifics in this case make this campaign look increasingly lawless. And we just learned that the White House is quietly circulating a draft bill that would vastly expand Trump’s authority for these bombings. Its details offer a damning glimpse into how unrestrained he aims to be going forward. We talked to Brian Finucane, who’s been writing great analysis of the situation as an editor at Just Security. He explains why the specifics of that draft bill are so alarming, why the bombings appear to constitute serious abuses of power, and why all this may be hurtling us toward darker lawlessness to come. (Since we recorded, Trump bombed a third vessel in similarly lawless fashion. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:16.6	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
1:18.9	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. Everybody seems to have moved on from the awful story involving President Trump's decision to bomb a small boat allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean Sea.
1:37.8	That's a shame because really bad stuff is continuing to happen on this front.
1:43.1	The White House is now circulating a draft of a bill
1:46.1	that would vastly expand Trump's authority for exactly these types of bombings. We've also had
1:52.2	another one of these strikes, and it appears just as dubious as the first one. And Trump announced
1:58.0	that strike with an absolutely deranged tweet that should raise alarms everywhere, but isn't.
2:04.8	Meanwhile, Democrats just introduced a measure to restrain Trump, and the prospects for getting the GOP support it needs are approximately zero.
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