{"id":2492816,"date":"2025-09-30T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-keeps-door-open-to-military-strikes-inside-venezuela\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T15:06:40","slug":"trump-keeps-door-open-to-military-strikes-inside-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-keeps-door-open-to-military-strikes-inside-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps door open to military strikes inside Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-keeps-door-open-to-military-strikes-inside-venezuela%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2492816&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President donald Trump&#8217;s stance on potential military action inside Venezuela. Trump indicated that all options remain open regarding strikes against Venezuelan drug cartels, specifically the narco-gang Tren de Aragua. Previously, the Trump governance conducted strikes on drug boats in the Caribbean, effectively stopping drug trafficking via waterways. Trump mentioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/young-new-yorker-confirmed-as-hamas-hostage\/\" title=\"Young New Yorker confirmed as hostage by Hamas.\">continued threat posed<\/a> by Venezuela in terms of drugs and other dangers, hinting at possible future actions against cartels operating by land. While speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fncs-carlson-its-time-for-the-democrats-to-accept-their-victory-forgive-the-team-they-beat-and-to-move-on-you-won-be-happy\/\" title=\"FNC&#039;s Carlson: It&#039;s Time for the Democrats to &#039;Accept Their Victory,&#039; &#039;Forgive the Team They Beat and to Move On&#039; -- &#039;You Won, Be Happy&#039;\">military leaders<\/a> at Quantico, Virginia, Trump avoided giving direct answers about plans for strikes but emphasized his intent to evaluate and perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fire military leaders<\/a> he finds unsatisfactory. The piece also references recent political updates,such as congressional negotiations failing to prevent a government shutdown. <br \/> <!DOCTYPE html><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Trump keeps door open to military strikes inside Venezuela &mdash;&nbsp;and firing military brass<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2359716\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> kept all options on the table Tuesday when asked if he is preparing military strikes against targets inside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Venezuela<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the summer, the Trump administration escalated its war against the Venezuelan narco-gang Tren de Aragua by launching strikes against reported drug boats in the Caribbean. Furthermore, NBC reported over the weekend that the Pentagon is preparing options for Trump to strike directly at gang targets inside Venezuela.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3830072\/trump-hamas-gaza-plan-peace-proposal\/\">Trump will give Hamas &#8216;three or four days&#8217; to respond to Gaza plan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/3829510\/border-patrol-chicago-portland-support-ice-government-shutdown\/\">Border Patrol to remain in Chicago and Portland to support ICE if government shuts down<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3829968\/watch-live-trump-hegseth-address-military-leaders-rare-meeting\/\">WATCH LIVE: Trump and Hegseth address military leaders in rare meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The president spoke to military leadership in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday morning. On his way out of the White House, he danced around a question from the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> about plans for strikes against the gangs on Venezuelan soil.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll see what happens with Venezuela. Venezuela has been very dangerous with drugs and with other things, and they&rsquo;ve been very, very dangerous,&rdquo; he stated, before pointing back to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense\/3816699\/trump-announces-third-strike-on-boat-killing-three-narcoterrorists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">strikes on drug boats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We had a lot of drugs coming in through water. We call it water drugs, just a simple term. We don&rsquo;t have any boats on the water. There are no boats. There are no fishing boats. There are no anything. So we hit a number of boats. You probably saw that, and since we did that, we have absolutely no drugs coming into our country via water, because it was lethal,&rdquo; Trump continued. &ldquo;And now we&rsquo;ll look at cartels. We&rsquo;re going to look very seriously at cartels coming by land.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The president declined to say if he planned to discuss the subject during his speech in Quantico, describing the event as &ldquo;only an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-russia-ripe-for-a-coup\/\" title=\"Is Russia Ripe for a Coup?\">esprit de corps<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3829584\/congress-white-house-no-deal-avert-government-shutdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS LEAVE WHITE HOUSE WITH NO DEAL TO AVERT SHUTDOWN: &lsquo;STILL LARGE DIFFERENCES&rsquo;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A thing like this has never been done before, because they came from all over the world,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;And there&rsquo;s a little bit of expense, not much, but there&rsquo;s a little expense to that. We don&rsquo;t like to waste it. We&rsquo;d rather spend it on bullets and rockets, frankly. But this was the one time we had to do a great spiritizing.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Still, the president did say that he planned to meet with &ldquo;generals and with admirals and with leaders,&rdquo; and that if he didn&rsquo;t &ldquo;like somebody, [he&rsquo;s] going to fire them right on the spot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump open to Venezuela strikes, may fire military leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2645,"featured_media":2492817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25273457285360.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[50462,32402,56991,3634,50813],"class_list":["post-2492816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-foreign-policy-2","tag-international-relations","tag-military-strikes","tag-trump","tag-venezuela-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25273457285360.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2492816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492820,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2492816\/revisions\/2492820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2492817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2492816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2492816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2492816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}