🚤 🎥(WATCH) In 54 Seconds, Rand Paul Completely Destroys Trump’s Boat War Lies
“There’s no fentanyl being made in Venezuela… and those boats can’t reach Miami.”
Fact punch: On Piers Morgan’s show, Sen. Rand Paul says “There’s no fentanyl being made in Venezuela… none,”and that the small outboard boats “would have to refuel 20 times to reach Miami.”
Why it matters now: The Trump administration has been blowing up boats off Venezuela—killing dozens—while claiming they’re fentanyl pipelines to the U.S., and then releasing the only two survivors rather than charging them.
Moral clarity: You don’t get to summarily execute people at sea and call it justice—especially when your story collapses under geography, fuel, and basic facts.
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Here’s what Senator Paul lays down, clean and simple. First, there is no fentanyl being manufactured in Venezuela—“not just a little bit,” he says, “none.” That alone blows a hole in the White House line that these are fentanyl “narco-terror” boats aimed at the United States.
Second, the boats themselves give the game away: these are small outboards that, in Paul’s words, “would have to refuel 20 times to reach Miami.” They’re not coming here. He says every shred of information he has indicates these boats hug the nearby route to Trinidad, a short hop from Venezuela’s coast—consistent with what regional officials and reporters have been saying for weeks.
Then comes the part too many are afraid to say out loud: “We cannot just summarily execute people.” For drug crimes, Paul says, you go to court, evidence is presented, and a person has a chance at justice. If Trump is acting under the rules of war, Paul adds, he must declare war and Congress must debate and authorize it. That’s not a technicality. That’s the Constitution.
Frame those sentences against what the administration has actually done. It has claimed a war-like power without a vote, blown up multiple boats, killed dozens, refused to release a legal memo or evidence, and then—when two men survived—sent them home to Colombia and Ecuador instead of charging them or detaining them where a U.S. judge could hear their testimony. If these men were who the White House says they were, why weren’t they brought to court? Why avoid the one venue where claims must be proved?
You already know the answer: they didn’t want those men talking under oath. Killing by press conference; silence by repatriation.
I also believe something darker is at work in our public heart. Two straight years of the genocide in Gaza—broadcast into our palms—has numbed the world to wanton killing. When leaders can starve babies on camera and call it “security,” they can convince people that vaporizing “suspects” at sea without proof is somehow safety. That moral numbness is not an accident. It is the point.
Objection & Answer
“Rand’s grandstanding; intel is classified.”
Courts handle classified material every day—in camera, under seal, through the Classified Information Procedures Act. Releasing survivors rather than charging them isn’t about secrecy; it’s about avoiding judges, discovery, and cross-examination.
“They’re drug smugglers; good riddance.”
If that’s true, prove it. That’s what trials are for. Present evidence, let defense counsel speak, and let a jury decide. Bombs are not due process—and geography says these boats aren’t U.S.-bound fentanyl pipelines.
“This is war.”
Then show the authorization. The Constitution doesn’t allow war by press release. If you want war powers, make the case to Congress and the American people. Until then, what you’re doing is outside the law.
If this clip moved you, don’t just nod. Share it. Demand the legal memo. Demand a halt to the strikes pending a public vote. Demand sworn testimony from the two living witnesses the administration quietly sent away. This is how we pull truth out of the shadows—by refusing to let the pretext stand.
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Your friend and brother,
Shaun
Yes - even we, watching TV can tell many of those boats had no cabins, just open outboards not going far. Where's the due process? *rumps guesswork kills a lot of potentially innocent people
If you asked me a few years ago, if I agreed with Rand Paul, I would have said you were out of your mind. But he's right.
Shaun, I really like the Objections & Answers format. It is concise, clear, and a great guide for conversations with those buying into the propaganda.