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Gunboat Diplomacy Returns: US Seizes Oil Tanker Off Venezuela. This move underscores the Trump administration's Monroe-2.0 posturing as Washington seeks to reassert control over the Western Hemisphere after years of neglect. President Trump confirmed to Bloomberg that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a tanker near Venezuela’s coast, saying further information will be provided soon. Gunboat diplomacy was on full display Wednesday afternoon after Bloomberg reported that U.S. forces intercepted and seized a sanctioned Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. This move underscores the Trump administration’s Monroe-2.0 posturing as Washington seeks to reassert control over the Western Hemisphere after years of neglect. Bloomberg cited sources who did not disclose the tanker’s name or the general area where U.S. military forces seized the vessel. The move here is a foreign policy tactic known as gunboat diplomacy. It’s where the U.S. military has stationed warships, jets, bombers, and troops that are to push the Maduro regime into complying with U.S. demands. Simultaneously, the Pentagon has ramped up strikes on drug-trafficking vessels in waters near Venezuela and Colombia, killing at least 80 in the process. The Trump administration is hell-bent on dismantling the command-and-control structures of narco-trafficking routes that funnel illicit drugs into the U.S. and have contributed to the drug-death catastrophe that kills 100,000 Americans per year.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Releases Video of US Seizing Venezuelan Oil Tanker.The Trump Administration on Wednesday released footage of the US seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker.It was reported by Bloomberg earlier Wednesday that the US Coast Guard, with help from the Navy, seized the oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Later Wednesday, President Trump confirmed the report and boasted about the seizure. “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela. Large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized action — and, other things are happening. So you’ll be seeing that later. And you’ll be talking about that later with some other people,” Trump said during remarks at his White House roundtable. “It was seized for a very good reason,” Trump added. “Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations, and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” US Attorney General Pam Bondi said. “For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” Bondi said. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues,” Bondi added. “The tanker has been used in recent years in an illicit shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. (Video)

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Breaking Update: Erika Kirk Rebukes Conspiracy Theories About Charlie Kirk Assassination. Erika responds to questions about Charlie's death raised by Candace Owens and others. Candace Owens released a click bait video saying she would respond to Erika Kirk’s remarks, indirectly referring to her, on her show Wednesday. Erika Kirk, the widow of assonated Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, condemned internet theories surrounding her husband’s death, slamming them as baseless and harmful. Speaking to Fox News “Outnumbered” host Harris Faulkner, Kirk railed against rumors claiming Kirk is still alive, while acknowledging people grieving over him understandably want answers for the senseless tragedy. “They are trying so hard and I get that,” said Kirk, who became TPUSA CEO following his death. “We’re doing the same. Anytime we hear a lead or anytime we hear anything, we send it to the authorities. ‘Please dig into this.’ No rock will be unturned. I want justice for my husband, for myself, for my family more than anyone else out there.” Kirk continued, appearing to respond to claims circulated by podcast host Candace Owens suggesting TPUSA may have been connected to her husband’s death. “Come after me. Call me names. I don’t care. Call me what you want. Go down that rabbit hole. Whatever. But when you go after my family, my turning point USA family, my Charlie Kirk show family, when you go after the people that I love and you’re making hundreds and thousands of dollars every single episode going after the people that I love because somehow they’re in on this. No.” Calling her vitriol “righteous anger,” Kirk went on to say people making the claims were infected with a “mind virus,” before adding, “My poor team is exhausted, and every time they bring this back up, what are we supposed to do, relive that trauma all over again?” “They watched my husband get murdered. I have no idea how I would have reacted if I was there that day.” “My team, they are rocked the core. So why every single day do they have to be dragged through the mud? Analyzed, hyper analyzed?” “If you want to find and pick me apart, go right ahead. I do not care. I don’t. This was happening before Charlie was murdered. Both of us have been through the ringer,” she said, without explicitly naming Pwens. “But I have seen it firsthand impact the people that I love. And I’m done.” Kirk’s comments come as podcast host Tim Pool went off on Owens in a recent episode, unleashing a profanity-laced tirade after she tied him into her investigation.
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Erika Kirk has declared war on Candace Owens, calling her claims a “mind virus” and accusing her of attacking Turning Point USA while making huge money by suggesting they were involved in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

She says her anger is righteous and that she still believes… pic.twitter.com/jDNqLMJQtL

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) December 10, 2025

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Matt Walsh: Netflix Joins the Sick Movement To Turn Villains into Heroes. Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Hollywood has been on a mission over the past several years to convince our children that evil doesn't exist and bad people and criminals are all really just misunderstood. Today we'll look at the latest example of this kind of slop, and I'll explain why it really matters. Also, horrendous hag Jennifer Welch launches yet another attack on Erika Kirk. I am really fed up with the way Erika has been treated. We'll discuss. Plus the the guy who owns ChatGPT says that he doesn't know how parents could raise their own children without it. Well, I think I can answer that question for him.  (Video)

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DEEP STATE BOMBSHELL: Billionaire CEO Patrick Byrne Has Exclusively Revealed That He Has Worked As A High-Level CIA Operative For Over 30 Years! Byrne is so disgusted with the deep state's attempts to sabotage the new administration that he made the decision to go rogue & to publicly defect to the American people, so that he can raise the alarm & expose the treasonous constellation of countries / organizations threatening to kill the American Republic. Patrick reveals never before known details of Cuban & Venezuelan deep penetration into the US government, how John Brennan is the real director of the CIA, and much more! (Video)

​EXCLUSIVE: Former Intel Asset Patrick Byrne Breaks Down How Venezuela Overthrew The US In A 4-Pronged Attack & What Trump Must Do To Destroy The Cancerous Narco-Terrorists That Are Targeting America. Trump's interest in Venezuela may have more to do with stopping election interference than drugs. Intel asset and American businessman Patrick Byrne joins Infowars’ War Room to break down the real story behind the Trump administration’s actions against Venezuela, explaining how they fit into President Trump’s broader strategy to fix the corrupt U.S. election system. (Video)