{"id":275,"date":"2025-09-07T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/?p=275"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:19:08","slug":"paul-slams-vances-despicable-comments-about-alleged-drug-boat-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/paul-slams-vances-despicable-comments-about-alleged-drug-boat-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul slams Vance's 'despicable' comments about alleged drug boat strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took a swing at Vice President Vance on Saturday over comments Vance made about a strike on an alleged drug boat.<\/p>\n

\u201cKilling cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,\u201d Vance wrote in a Saturday morning post<\/a> on the social platform X, referencing a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration has stated<\/a> killed 11 Venezuelan drug traffickers.<\/p>\n

In response to Vance\u2019s post<\/a>, Paul wrote in a post of his own later Saturday that \u201cJD \u2018I don\u2019t give a s\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2019 Vance says killing people he accuses of a crime is the \u2018highest and best use of the military.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDid he ever read To Kill a Mockingbird? Did he ever wonder what might happen if the accused were immediately executed without trial or representation??\u201d the Kentucky senator added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a despicable and thoughtless sentiment it is to glorify killing someone without a trial,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, President Trump said a U.S. military \u201ckinetic\u201d strike<\/a> killed 11 \u201cterrorists\u201d on a \u201cdrug vessel\u201d in the Caribbean in the wake of leaving Venezuela.<\/p>\n

According to the administration, the Tuesday morning strike hit a boat with members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan transnational gang that is designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cTDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere,\u201d the president continued.<\/p>\n

The Hill has reached out to Vance\u2019s office for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) took a swing at Vice President Vance on Saturday over comments Vance made about a strike on an alleged drug boat. \u201cKilling cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,\u201d Vance wrote in a Saturday morning post on the social platform X, referencing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}