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Donald Trump Says US Hit Third Vessel Smuggling Drugs: 'Carried Out Lethal Kinetic Strike'

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  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    80% Very Right

  • Politician Portrayal

    -48% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Trump further added in his social media post.
24% : Trump in a social media post said the strike was carried out against a vessel "affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility."
23% : Trump claimed the boat was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang, which was listed by the U.S. as foreign terrorist organization earlier this year.
12% : "Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage enroute to poison Americans," Trump said in the post. Trump also posted a video of the latest strike that shows a vessel speeding through waters before it appears to be struck by a pair of missiles from overhead and sink in a fiery explosion.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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