Did you read that Trump murdered 4 more people?

[msc545]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/politics/hegseth-military-boat-venezuela.html?

The U. S. military killed four men aboard a boat in international waters near Venezuela, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Friday, in the first such strike since the Trump administration told Congress that the United States was engaged in a formal “armed conflict” with Latin American cartels.

In his posting, Mr. Hegseth accused the four dead men of having been smuggling narcotics, without offering evidence. He also asserted that they were “affiliated” with one of the cartels and gangs that the Trump administration has designated as foreign terrorist organizations, but did not specify which.

The strike was the fourth known attack by the U. S. military on boats in the Caribbean Sea dating back to Sept. 2. In all, the military has now summarily killed 21 people it says were smuggling drugs as if they were not criminal suspects but enemy soldiers in a war zone.

[purplepoppy]

He's clearly guilty under international law but America is too powerful for anyone to hold him to account. I predict he'll go too far, be ousted from office and find himself facing the death penalty.

[DrPepper12]

Guilty intil dead & useful for an invasion of Venezuela. That Nobel prize is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO close!!

[beefcakebradybatson]

I wonder if these slayings rise to the level of crimes against humanity.

[Sevenpointfive]

that number could be 4 million. how would we know?

[msc545]

I feel certain he would tell us - proudly. Just like he has about the others he murdered.

[Sevenpointfive]

two big wars in media and some smaller ones that aren't. just from war he's killed hundreds of thousands. i blame him in part for Covid deaths. now cutting healthcare. he's gonna get a parade and the red carpet treatment in hell.

[exitseven]

How many American lives did he save by getting that poison off the streets?

[msc545]

Prove that there was any poison or any intent to distribute that "poison" or STOP LYING.

[exitseven]

I saw the boat before it was blown out of the water. They were smuggling drug like drug containers/. It was a good shoot.

[msc545]

So you were able to see and test the drugs yourself? Do you realize how ridiculous this sounds?

[msc545]

And you somehow think there is such a thing as a "drug container" ? What does it look like? Could you see inside the boat?

[exitseven]

@msc545 I am glad that Trump erred on the side of safety.

[msc545]

No, he erred on the side of violence and murder. I am sorry you support this, as I thought you were better than this.

[exitseven]

@msc545 i am against the illegal drug trade. If you see a boat that is only used by drug runners in waters off Venezuela heading to the US logic dictates that it is a drug smuggling operation. What do you think they were bringing here, souvenirs?

[msc545]

"a boat that is only used by drug runners". What kind of boat do you think that is, that NOBODY ELSE uses? A boat is a boat.

[exitseven]

A small open boat with multiple outboard motors capable of travelling at least 35 knots.

[msc545]

There is a total lack of proof that anyone on that boat had anything to do with drugs, or that there were any drugs on that boat at all. The boat was far too small to make the trip to the US, and in any event, drugs come into the US on airplanes, not boats. They were probably fishing out there.

You know all this, yet your cognitive dissonance dictates that you repeat and pretend to believe Trump's ridiculous explanations of all this, which on their face make no sense. Aren't you getting sick of the discomfort this must be causing you?

[msc545]

Maybe, but for how long and how far?

[Sal_Monella]

How many people were murdered in World War Two?

[msc545]

That was a war. This is not

[msc545]

Offer some proof that those people were doing that, and that the government of Venezuela or Mexico told them to do it.

Proof other than "Trump said so" - which, like almost everything Trump says, is a lie.

[msc545]

You can't because you have no proof nor do you ask for any. Instead, you believe the words of a murdering, lying, mentally ill criminal.