JD Vance issues 6-word warning to fisherman after | Political News

JD Vance shared his remarks on the U.S. strikes on Venezuelan boats, incomes backlash over his selection of phrases.

Donald Trump ordered two assaults on what he claims are drug boats heading to the U.S. in the last few weeks. The president shared on Monday that three males have been killed in a strike against what he called “extraordinarily violent drug trafficking cartels and narcoterrorists.”

“Be warned — if you are transporting drugs that can kill Americans, we are hunting you!” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Earlier this month, Trump said 11 others have been killed in a strike against “Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists,” which the Trump administration has designated as a overseas terrorist group.

While talking to a crowd of supporters in Michigan on Wednesday, the vice president shared his ideas on the boat strikes, sayng, “I wouldn’t go fishing right now.”

Vance shared a dialog he had with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, in which Hegseth said, “We don’t see any of these drug boats coming into our country. They’ve completely stopped.”

“I said, ‘I know why,'” Vance joked as the gang laughed. “I would stop too. Hell, I wouldn’t go fishing right now in that area of the world.”

He continued: “But that is what a military that is dedicated to its purpose and a commander in chief that is dedicated to the national good can do.”

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Vance’s feedback earned backlash online after a clip of the second started to flow into on X. One particular person wrote, “This really isn’t funny. Countries don’t have the right to shoot down vessels in international waters without legal justification.”

Another particular person said, “This regime gets giddy about violence. It’s sick.” Meanwhile, a third particular person claimed that Vance “doesn’t even know if they are killing drug dealers or fishermen.”

In a letter to the White House after the first strike, Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and 24 other Democratic members of the higher chamber said the Trump administration has supplied “no legitimate legal justification” for the strike and demanded more data.

“Depending on the evidence, there might be paths where the strikes could be legal,” Duke University law professor Charles Dunlap told Politico. “But I don’t think it’s helping the administration by not being fully transparent about everything they had to draw them to the conclusion that a military/law-of-war-type response was what was necessary.”

Trump despatched a letter to Chuck Grassley, president professional tempore of the Senate, notifying him of the first strike two days after ti occurred and “the potential for such further actions.”

“In the face of the inability or unwillingness of some states in the region to address the continuing threat to United States persons and interests emanating from their territories, we have now reached a critical point where we must meet this threat to our citizens and our most vital national interests with United States military force in self-defense,” the president wrote.

Venezuela’s inside minister, Diosdado Cabello, said that none of the 11 people killed in the first strike belonged to Tren de Aragua. “They openly confessed to killing 11 people,” said Cabello on state tv. “We have done our investigations here in our country, and there are the families of the disappeared people who want their relatives, and when we asked in the towns, none were from Tren de Aragua, none were drug traffickers.”

Cabello questioned how the U.S. might decide if medicine have been on the boat and requested why people weren’t arrested instead.