"It's a classic Trumpism to mention such a deadly important topic off-hand, and then follow it with 'I don't know if you read or you saw,' which would seemingly indicate that Trump has absolutely no idea whether what he just said was publicly available information, or classified military secret that will cause his generals to suffer instantaneous heart attacks."
"The man's brain appears to be melting before our eyes; he's admitting to covert U.S. strikes in the course of normal conversation and it's only because his administration gives us such a constant deluge of horrors that such a comment can go almost without notice over the holiday weekend. Or maybe we were just too distracted by the Trump admin's simultaneous Christmas strikes on Nigeria. Happy holidays!"
On Christmas Eve, Trump claimed the U.S. 'knocked out' a facility in Venezuela used to launch drug boats. No independent reporting confirmed a strike on the Venezuelan mainland at that time. The radio station's write-up did not mention the claim. The New York Times cited unnamed American officials saying Trump referred to a drug facility that was eliminated, but those officials provided no direct quotes. Trump's statement that the U.S. hit 'where the ships come from' suggests a dockyard or ship-building site, creating a discrepancy with the 'drug facility' description. Venezuela has not acknowledged any strikes. Officials offered mixed, confusing messages.
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