Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he is not waging a pressure campaign against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. “It's something more,” he emphasized. “Venezuela is sending us drugs, but Venezuela is also sending us people it shouldn't be sending us,” Trump added.
He also reported that the amount of drugs smuggled into the US by sea “fell by 91 percent.” — I don't know who is behind these 90 percent. and we will start on land soon, announced the US leader.
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— We know every route, we know every house, we know where this garbage is produced. We know where they store it all. And I think you'll see it on land soon,” Trump added.
On Tuesday, the US president said he had no knowledge of a repeat attack on survivors of the initial attack on a drug smuggler's boat that took place on September 2 in the Caribbean Sea. He stressed that he wanted to eliminate these boats and threatened that not only Venezuela could be the target of US attacks.
During a call with reporters on Wednesday, Trump assured that he would support publishing the video of a repeat attack on the boat with survivors. “I don't know what they have, but we'll definitely publish what we have without a problem,” he said.
