Trump Promises ‘Very Hard’ Land Strikes Coming Against Drug Traffickers

President Donald Trump said he would be initiating “very hard” land strikes targeting drug smugglers after a series of military strikes on boats suspected of carrying drugs intended for distribution in the United States. “By knocking out those boats, we have dropped drugs, fentanyl, about 33 percent,” he told Fox Business’s Larry Kudlow in an interview released on Tuesday, referring to more than two dozen U.S. military strikes targeting drug-trafficking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. Trump suggested that the United States had struck boat-based smugglers first for strategic reasons. “If you hit them on land, they go to the boats,” the president said. “Now we’re gonna hit them on land. We’re gonna hit them very hard on land.”...