Trump confirms US strike on drug submarine, killing two 'narcoterrorists'
President Donald Trump confirmed the U.S. military destroyed a drug submarine that was moving toward the United States carrying fentanyl and other illegal drugs.
Trump previously mentioned a U.S. strike on an alleged “drug-carrying submarine” in the Caribbean during a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, though Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio declined to go into specifics.
Trump’s announcement on Saturday affirmed that earlier statement, including unclassified footage of the strike.
“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE that was navigating towards the United States on a well known narcotrafficking transit route. U.S. Intelligence confirmed this vessel was loaded up with mostly Fentanyl, and other illegal narcotics. There were four known narcoterrorists on board the vessel,” the president posted on Truth Social.
Of those four on the vessel, two were killed, while the others will be returned to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia, respectively. No U.S. forces were harmed in the strike, Trump said.