{"id":326894,"date":"2025-12-02T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326894\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:05:07","slug":"trump-says-any-country-trafficking-drugs-into-us-could-be-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/326894\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says any country trafficking drugs into US could be attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said any country trafficking illegal drugs into the United States could be attacked.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAnybody that\u2019s doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack,\u201d Trump told reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House, after raising the issue of cocaine from Colombia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Colombian President Gustavo Petro shot back at Trump in a social media post, arguing the South American nation destroys a drug-producing laboratory every 40 minutes \u2013 \u201cwithout missiles\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Trump has launched an offensive on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Pacific in recent months, killing dozens through targeted missile strikes.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">US military forces have built up in the Caribbean, with tensions ratcheting up between Trump and Nicolas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, which borders Colombia.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Trump administration alleges Maduro plays a key role in supplying illegal drugs that have killed Americans, which Maduro has denied. In recent days, Trump has flagged the possibility of US military intervention in Venezuela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said any country trafficking illegal drugs into the United States could be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,13011,23662,22051,27459,166391,166392,3,18231,86601,21,19,22,20,25,57442,14012,24,18232,3123],"class_list":["post-326894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-americans","tag-caribbean","tag-cocaine","tag-colombia","tag-colombian-president-gustavo-petro","tag-illegal-drugs","tag-news","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-pacific","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-military","tag-us-president-donald-trump","tag-usa","tag-venezuela","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}