Donald Trump confirmed on Monday the U.S. made a Christmas Eve strike on a boat loading facility in Venezuela, marking the first land strikes in the country since beginning a campaign for the regime change of President Nicolas Maduro.
Asked if the CIA had carried out the attack, Trump said: “I don’t want to say that. I know exactly who it was but I don’t want to say who it was.”
“We hit all the boats and now we hit the area, it’s the implementation area. That’s where they implement. And that is no longer around.”
*pudding time!
Trump has said previously that he has authorized the CIA to perform covert operations in Venezuela.
Both the Pentagon and U.S. Southern Command referred The Hill to the White House when asked about Trump’s remarks.
CNN is reporting that sources with knowledge say the CIA carried out the operation, which is weird considering what Tulsi Gabbard, who now oversees the CIA, said in 2019, below:
On a New York radio show last Friday, Trump blathered about “knocking out” some Venezuelan something-or-other.
“We just knocked out — I don’t know if you read or you saw — they have a big plant or big facility where they send the, you know, where the ships come from,” he told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby. “Two nights ago, we knocked that out. So we hit them very hard.”