Follow the latest news on President Donald Trump and his administration | Dec. 10, 2025AP NewsBy BRIDGET BROWN, MICHAEL WARREN, CURTIS YEE, AMY SHAFER and LUENA RODRIGUEZ-FEO VILEIRADecember 10, 2025President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.It’s the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the U.S.The seizure was led by the U.S. Coast Guard and supported by the Navy, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
You know there is a name for this... piracy! So the U.S. has now stooped to the level of Iran or the Barbary pirates!
Update: 7:45PM
The administration is now saying that they had a warrant for the tanker. Reuter's reported...
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi posted on X that the FBI, Homeland Security and Coast Guard, along with support from the U.S. military, carried out a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
Politico reports,
The White House did not provide additional details about the vessel. But a person familiar with the matter, granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive seizure, said the ship was en route to Cuba, where the state firm Cubametales was planning to sell it to Asian energy brokers.
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