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Victoria Bekiempis

Republican condemns Vance for ‘despicable’ comments on Venezuelan boat strike

Vice-President JD Vance speaks to the press after paying his respects to victims of the Annunciation Catholic church shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 3 September.
Vice-President JD Vance speaks to the press after paying his respects to victims of the Annunciation Catholic church shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on 3 September. Photograph: Alex Wroblewski/AFP/Getty Images

The Republican senator who heads the homeland security committee has criticized JD Vance for “despicable” comments apparently in support of extrajudicial military killings.

“Killing cartel members who poison our fellow citizens is the highest and best use of our military,” the vice-president said in an X post on Saturday, in defense of Tuesday’s US military strike against a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean Sea, which killed 11 people the administration alleged were drug traffickers.

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