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.
