{"id":14392,"date":"2025-12-30T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14392"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:14:15","slug":"trump-says-us-hit-facility-in-venezuela-very-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/?p=14392","title":{"rendered":"Trump says US hit facility in Venezuela \u2018very hard\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"314\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ScreenShot_2025-12-30_141135_090.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ScreenShot_2025-12-30_141135_090.png 314w, https:\/\/tingchao.xyz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ScreenShot_2025-12-30_141135_090-300x171.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>President Trump said during a recent radio interview that the U.S. \u201cknocked out\u201d a \u201cbig\u201d facility in Venezuela, as the administration continues to turn up the pressure against President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Asked about Venezuela during a Friday appearance on the \u201cCats &amp; Cosby\u201d show on New York\u2019s WABC radio, Trump lauded the U.S. military\u2019s attacks against purported drug-smuggling vessels in the region and added that U.S. forces hit a facility two days earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe just knocked out \u2014 I don\u2019t know if you read or you saw \u2014 they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from,\u201d the president told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby. \u201cTwo nights ago, we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is unclear where the facility is located, how the attack was carried out, what damage was done or whether there were any casualties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Trump shed some more light on the attack, saying the U.S. personnel hit an \u201cimplementation\u201d area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hit all the boats and now we hit the area, it\u2019s the implementation area. That\u2019s where they implement. And that is no longer around,\u201d the president said while at Mar-a-Lago, standing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump said there was a \u201cmajor explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs,\u201d adding it took place \u201calong the shore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the Pentagon and U.S. Southern Command referred The Hill to the White House when asked about Trump\u2019s remarks. The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>U.S. officials told The New York Times that a drug facility in Venezuela had been eliminated, but did not provide additional details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Venezuelan government has not publicly commented on the alleged attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. military, if given the green light to conduct strikes inside Venezuela, could target drug cartel infrastructure, such as port facilities and warehouses where drug smugglers store cocaine before it is shipped elsewhere, experts previously told The Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If confirmed, the action would mark the U.S.\u2019s first known land strike in Venezuela since the Trump administration kicked off its pressure campaign against Maduro and since U.S. forces began taking out alleged drug trafficking boats in early September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has mused about authorizing land strikes inside Venezuela in recent weeks. Since Sept. 2, the U.S. military has struck at least 28 alleged drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific, killing at least 105 \u201cnarcoterrorists\u201d in what the administration argues is an effort to curb the flow of illicit drugs in the region and protect the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics of the boat strikes have billed them as extrajudicial killings without legal justification, noting Venezuelan cartels are mostly trafficking cocaine, not fentanyl, which is responsible for the vast majority of overdoses in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The president confirmed in October that he greenlit the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela, and special operations forces were reportedly deployed to the region in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump has also announced a blockade on all sanctioned oil tankers coming in and out of Venezuela. 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