'Holy S**t': Trump's Outrageously False Claim Gets Hit With Immediate Fact-Check
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The president's claim wasn't even remotely close on this one.
President Donald Trump on Sunday tried to justify the fatal U.S. strike on a Venezuelan boat by claiming that 300 million people, presumably Americans, died from drugs last year.
He was off by almost 300 million.
Earlier this month, Trump ordered the military to blow up a Venezuelan boat suspected of carrying drugs to the United States, killing 11.
The move drew criticism on both sides of the aisle.
“I think probably that we had the facts correct, we got bad people here, but … it isn’t our policy just to blow people up,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said after the attack.
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“Why doesn’t it get called out? I think it would be called out even more if people weren’t afraid to criticize this president,” the former CNN host said.
"I fully support that strike," Hegseth said at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, California. "I would have made the same call myself."
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The office tackles global issues such as the administration’s deadly strikes in the Caribbean, which lawmakers and experts say could involve war crimes. Dozens of officials have left this year.
Members of Congress are seeking more answers on the controversial attack and the legal underpinnings of the president's military campaign in international waters.
The veteran news anchor said CBS is now a "whole different organization" compared to her time at the network.
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