President Trump says U.S. strike on fentanyl-carrying submarine prevented 25,000 American overdose deaths, with survivors from Ecuador and Colombia captured.
President Donald Trump said Saturday that a U.S. military strike destroyed a “very large drug-carrying submarine” in the Caribbean this week, killing two suspected narcoterrorists and capturing two others alive, while releasing video of the strike.
In a statement posted to Truth Social, Trump said the vessel was carrying mostly “fentanyl and other narcotics” toward the U.S. on a “well known narcotrafficking transit route.” He claimed the interdiction prevented as many as 25,000 American overdose deaths.
“It was my great honor to destroy a very large DRUG-CARRYING SUBMARINE”, Trump wrote.
