President Trump’s narco-terrorist strike on a Venezuela-based drug-smuggling boat has left Democrats and their allies fuming—even as most Americans cheer the decisive action. Eleven members of Tren de Aragua, a cartel designated as a terrorist organization, were killed in the precision military strike.
Ryan Goodman, a Yale Law graduate and former Obama administration lawyer, rushed to defend the cartel. “I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat,” Goodman complained. He even claimed it was “hard to see how this would not be ‘murder’ or war crime under international law.”
But Trump made clear that America will no longer sit idle while narco-terrorists poison U.S. communities. “There’s more where that came from,” the president said, signaling more action to come against cartels and their allies. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro as the “kingpin of a drug narco-state,” underscoring the administration’s resolve to dismantle his criminal network.
Goodman’s outrage reflects the Obama-era mindset that preferred “a sternly worded memo” or an academic panel discussion to confronting crime. Trump, by contrast, has chosen decisive strength. As the president warned, “There’s more where that came from.”
