by Josh Christenson and Caitlin Doombos at New York Post
President Trump announced Wednesday that US forces “seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela” amid escalating tensions between the two countries over strikes on drug trafficking boats in the Caribbean Sea.
Trump noted that the vessel was the “largest one ever seized” by the American military.
“And other things are happening,” the president added. “You’ll be seeing that later.”
The US “executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran,” 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.”
Trump initially played coy about the seizure…