Some Republican lawmakers say Donald Trump still deserves the Nobel Peace Prize despite his recent drug cartel-targeting military operation in the Caribbean and a revival of the Department of War, another sign of their enduring loyalty to the commander in chief.
The president has raised eyebrows, even among some allies, with the U.S. military strike on what the administration called a vessel transporting drugs and operated by the Tren de Aragua criminal gang and his threats to take on that group and drug cartels inside Venezuela. Asked Sunday evening while returning to Washington from the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York if he would send the U.S. military into the South American nation, Trump responded, “Well, you’re going to find out.”
Earlier, on Friday, the president did not rule out U.S. military action to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, whom his administration has called illegitimate.
