$TRUMP 📢📢Trump continues to threaten to attack Venezuela and the regime rejects an “attempt at intimidation” with planes. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, once again threatened to launch a ground attack on Venezuela, which according to the Republican leader makes “it much easier” to fight against drug trafficking, the alleged objective of the military deployment in the Caribbean.
Trump made his threat on Friday night, at the same time that a second alleged incursion in a week of F-18 fighter jets over Venezuelan airspace became known, following a first flyover on Tuesday lasting 40 minutes of two aircraft launched from the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford.
“And now we start on the ground. And on the ground, it is much easier. And that is going to start happening,” Trump told reporters who asked him about the tension with Venezuela during a press conference in the Oval Office. Ground attacks do not “necessarily have to be in Venezuela; it is the people who bring drugs to our country that are our targets.” In a significant escalation this week, U.S. forces seized a Venezuelan tanker that was headed to the island of Cuba.
On the other hand, several U.S. F-18 and Growler warplanes flew near Venezuelan territory for several hours and intermittently turned off the equipment that reports their position.
