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Bernardo de La Paz

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15. If you could afford it, would you walk your children through Colombian jungles or go by speedboat to Florida?
Wed Sep 3, 2025, 11:25 PM
Sep 2025

(rhetorical question)

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Trump's hatred of brown people is becoming more sadistic and cruel by the day. Irish_Dem Sep 2025 #1
11 people needed to smuggle a boatload of drugs? Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #2
Could be 9 people being smuggled and no drugs. gab13by13 Sep 2025 #5
Who can tell? Disaffected Sep 2025 #19
Wouldn't surprise me. Trump tried to B.See Sep 2025 #3
A human (or drug) smuggling run from Venezuela to the U.S. coast would be at least 1400 miles. sop Sep 2025 #4
If you're out in your boat gab13by13 Sep 2025 #6
It was cold-blooded murder of innocent people. John1956PA Sep 2025 #8
that is the reason Trump ordered popsdenver Sep 2025 #17
That boat was obviously modified before we go down that path... Melon Sep 2025 #21
That boat did not have "4 high horsepower engines" on the transom, they were probably less than 50-70 hp each. sop Sep 2025 #24
I am very familiar with offshore race boats Melon Sep 2025 #25
That boat isn't going much faster than 25 mph, amd those engines look like small Yamahas, probably 40-70 hp. sop Sep 2025 #27
For all we know, they all could have been US citizens. bluedigger Sep 2025 #7
I believe it. Trump and his kids love drugs newdeal2 Sep 2025 #9
We'll never know misanthrope Sep 2025 #10
One thing we do know is that what we watched happen to that boat was cold blooded murder. GoodRaisin Sep 2025 #11
What "heart"? Traitor has Murder in Cha Sep 2025 #22
Were there children in the boat? Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #12
Chances are, we will never know Hekate Sep 2025 #14
If you could afford it, would you walk your children through Colombian jungles or go by speedboat to Florida? Bernardo de La Paz Sep 2025 #15
How would such a small boat make it all the way to the US? nt Disaffected Sep 2025 #20
I hope they keep asking -- personally, I think 11 people were murdered. Hekate Sep 2025 #13
Christians killing a boatload of Christians. Isn't that what this really is? RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Sep 2025 #16
Unlikely, unless they were squashed into small oblong packages wrapped in black plastic Warpy Sep 2025 #18
A better spin on the story, or how the blundering administration could have told it taxi Sep 2025 #23
Explain how they knew about this particular boat and drugs?.................. Lovie777 Sep 2025 #26
MaddowBlog-Team Trump faces tough questions following strike on boat in international waters LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #28
I think Trump is trying to provoke retaliation WSHazel Sep 2025 #29
If so, then it is a war crime. kentuck Sep 2025 #30
He's doing everything to distract from the Epstein issue. Xolodno Sep 2025 #31
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