Trump Seizes Venezuela Oil Tanker Funding Hezbollah | Biden Admits 18,000 Terrorists Into America

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Hey! What is up, Patriots? And happy Friday! Just another friendly reminder, it is T-minus-13 days till Christmas. So, did you finish your Christmas shopping yet? No? Well, you better get on that. Time is a-ticking. This is O'Connor's Quick Strike, and I'm John O'Connor. Three stories the mainstream media won't cover or will completely twist beyond recognition, delivered in roughly 15 minutes or so. No fluff, no BS, no filler.

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Just the unvarnished truth peppered with my own take on what's really going on. Today is Friday, December 12th, and I got three stories that show you exactly what Trump is doing to protect America while Democrats do everything they can to undermine him. We are leading with Trump seizing the largest oil tanker ever off the coast of Venezuela. A vessel that's been smuggling oil for Iran and Hezbollah. And Democrats are already calling it regime change by force.

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Then we're diving into shocking testimony from this week where the National Counterterrorism Center director revealed that Biden let 18,000 known or suspected terrorists into America. And we are closing with Democrat Congressman, Thompson, the same guy who ran the January 6 witch hunt, calling the terrorist shooting of two national guardsmen an unfortunate accident. Let's get into it.

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Alright patriots, this one is huge. Wednesday, December 10th, just two days ago, President Trump announced that US forces seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. And this wasn't just any tanker, this was the Skipper, the largest oil tanker ever seized by the United States. Trump made the announcement during a White House roundtable, and he didn't mince words. We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, Trump said. Large tanker.

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Very large, largest one ever seized actually. When a reporter asked what would happen to the oil on board, Trump said, well, we keep it I guess. Yeah, great. Now let me tell you what this tanker was really doing because the mainstream media is sort of bearing the lead here. The skipper, which used to be called the ADISA, was sanctioned by the United States back in 2022. Why?

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because it was part of sophisticated smuggling network that transported oil for Iran's Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah. That's right, terrorist organizations. Attorney General Pam Bondi released a statement saying the tanker has been sanctioned for multiple years due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations. So this wasn't just an oil tanker.

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This was a terror funding operation disguised as commerce. Here's what happened. The skipper loaded up with 1.1 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil in mid-November. It was headed to Cuba first, then ultimately Asia. The whole operation was brokered through Cuban sellers because, of course, Cuba is involved. Early Wednesday morning, around 6 a.m., the operation began.

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Two helicopters launched from the USS Gerald R. Ford, that's America's most advanced aircraft carrier, which has been stationed in the Caribbean as part of Trump's military buildup in the region. Ten Coast Guard members, ten Marines, and special operations forces fast roped from those helicopters onto the deck of the tanker while it was in international waters. Attorney General Bondi posted a video of the operation. And let me tell you, it's spectacular.

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You see our troops rappelling down from helicopters, hovering just feet above the deck, weapons drawn, taking control of that vessel. The operation seemed flawless. No casualties, no injuries, just American military precision. And now that tanker is heading to a US port in Galveston, Texas. We are keeping the ship. We are keeping the 1.1 million barrels of oil, all of it. So,

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What did Democrats say? Well, Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen from Maryland immediately attacked the operation. He said, this shows that their whole cover story that this is about interdicting drugs is a big lie. This is just one more piece of evidence that this is really about regime change by force. Let me get this straight, Senator. Trump just seized a vessel that was literally funding Hezbollah and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

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and your response is to defend it. Here's what Van Hollen doesn't want you to know. Venezuela's dictator, Nicolas Mandurah, has been charged with narco-terrorism in the United States. His regime uses oil revenue to fund drug cartels, terrorist organizations, and to maintain his grip on power while the Venezuelan people starve. And Trump isn't stopping with one tanker.

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White House officials said yesterday that more seizures are possible in the coming weeks as the U.S. applies pressure on Maduro. Venezuela's response? They called it an act of international piracy. Their foreign ministry said, the true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been exposed. It is not migration. It is not drug trafficking. It was always about our natural resources, our oil, our energy.

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You know what I say to that? Good. If you're using oil to fund terrorists, then yes, we are going to take it. You don't get to smuggle oil for Hezbollah and cry about international law when you get caught. Here's the bigger picture. Since early September, the Trump administration has conducted over 20 strikes on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing 87 people and destroying 23 vessels.

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Trump has said strikes on land could come soon, possibly in Venezuela itself. The US has the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group stationed off of Venezuela's coast right now. We flew F-18 fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela earlier this week. The closest American warplanes have come to Venezuelan airspaces in years. So here's my question for you, Patriots.

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If Democrats like Chris Van Hollen think seizing a terror-funding oil tanker is regime change by force, what do they propose we do instead? Let Hezbollah keep getting funded? Let Iran keep smuggling oil through Venezuelan waters? Let Maduro keep poisoning Americans with fentanyl? Because that's what this is really about. Maduro's regime is in bed with the cartels. The cartels are flooding our southern border with fentanyl.

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and the oil revenue from tankers like the Skipper funds all of it. Trump is cutting off their money supply. He's seizing their assets, and Democrats are calling it piracy. I'll take Trump's action over Democrat hand-wringing any day of the week. Now let's move to our second story, and this one is going to make your blood boil because it seems every month or two we have to come back to this topic.

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Thursday, December 11th, just yesterday, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, testified before the House Homeland Security Committee and he dropped an absolute bombshell that the mainstream media is desperately trying to ignore. Director Kent revealed that the Biden administration let 18,000 known or suspected terrorists into the United States. Let me say that again.

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Here's exactly what Director Kent said, quote, So far, NCTC has identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that the Biden administration let come into our country. He continued, These are individuals who under normal circumstances would never be allowed to enter our country because of their ties to jihadi groups like ISIS and Al-Qaeda. Yet,

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the Biden administration not only let them into the country and in many cases facilitated their entry. Facilitated their entry. That means Biden didn't just allow it, he helped them get here. Now let me break down these numbers for you because the details make it even worse. Of those 18,000 terrorists,

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2000 came in through Biden's botched Afghanistan withdrawal under something called Operation Allies Welcome. In the chaos of that withdrawal, Biden airlifted over 100,000 Afghans to the United States. And according to Director Kent, 2000 of those people have ties to terrorist organizations. Kent said, the individual terrorist who committed the attack in D.C., he was vetted to serve as a soldier in Afghanistan.

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The Biden administration essentially used his tactical level vetting as a ruse to bring him here and to bring him into our communities. He's talking about the Afghan national who shot two national guardsmen in Washington, D.C. just before Thanksgiving. Sarah Beckstrom died from her injuries. Andrew Wolf is still fighting for his life in the hospital. And Biden brought that terrorist here on purpose using a

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vetting process that was designed for war zones, not for immigration. But those 2,000 Afghans? They are just the tip of the iceberg. The other 16,000 terrorists came through various legal pathways during Biden's open border disaster. These are people who entered through asylum claims, refugee programs, visa programs, all while Biden's DHS and State Department waved them through. And here's the kicker.

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Director Kent said that 18,000 number doesn't include the unknown number of terrorists who cross the southern border illegally. Think about that. 18,000 is just the ones we know about. How many more got through that we haven't identified yet? Kent said that the NCTC had warned the Biden administration about these individuals. They identified the terrorist ties. They flagged the security concerns.

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and the Biden administration ignored them because they prioritized speed and volume over security. Biden wanted to get as many people into the country as fast as possible, and he didn't care who they were. Kent warned of heightened risk of terrorist attacks posed to the homeland by terrorists, in particular from ISIS and al-Qaeda, end quote.

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How many more terrorists are out there right now because Biden didn't care? This wasn't incompetence. This was choice. Biden had the intelligence. NCTC did their job. Biden chose to ignore it. DHS Secretary Gnomes testified Biden didn't do criminal background checks or vet social media. Someone just vouched for them. 18,000 known terrorists.

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are walking around America today because Joe Biden chose politics over safety. One. So for this final story, you're going to see some similar threads between the last story and this one. Democrat Congressman, Benny Thompson, the same guy who ran the January 6th witch hunt, called the terrorist shooting of two national guardsmen an unfortunate accident. During the hearing,

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Thompson questioned DHS Secretary Kristi Noem about the attack. Instead of calling it a terrorist attack, he said, unfortunate accident. Noem fired back. You think that was an unfortunate accident? He shot our National Guardsman in the head. Republican Andy Ogles, that was a murder that took place in DC, not an unfortunate incident. Those comments are effin' disrespectful. The room erupted.

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Thompson was minimizing a terrorist attack to protect Biden's legacy. The Afghan national didn't accidentally shoot two guardsmen. He ambushed them, murdered Sarah, and left Andrew clinging to his life. Why call it an accident? Because if it's terrorism, people ask, how did he get here? Who let him in? And the answer, Joe Biden. Biden's team vetted

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Him using war zone standards never meant for immigration. Biden's policies let 18,000 others follow. Thompson knows if Americans understand the scale of Biden's failure, Democrats are finished. So he calls it an accident. Secretary Noem wasn't having it. Director Kent dropped the hammer. 18,000 known and suspected terrorists that Biden administration let come into our country.

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Thompson tried blaming Trump for not deporting the Afghan national terrorists fast enough. But that vile human trash wouldn't be here if Biden hadn't let him in. You can't bring in a terrorist then blame the next guy for not removing him fast enough. Thompson spent two years jailing January 6th protesters, called parents domestic terrorists, went after conservatives with full federal force. But when an actual terrorist murders an American service member,

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Unfortunate accident. Democrats call you a terrorist for questioning elections, but call actual terrorists accidents. So there you have it, Patriots. Trump seizes the largest oil tanker ever, the smuggling for Hezbollah, and Democrats call it regime change. Biden let 18,000 terrorists into America, ignoring intelligence warnings. Thompson calls the terrorist murder of a National Guard's woman

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an unfortunate accident. What connects all three? Democrats defend terrorists. They defend oil smugglers funding Hezbollah. They defend letting 18,000 terrorists in. They defend the terrorists by calling it an accident. Trump is taking action, seizing terror funding assets, building military pressure, reviewing every Afghan Biden let in. How do we make sure more Americans know this?

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Because the mainstream media won't tell them. CNN won't report Biden's 18,000 terrorists. MSNOW, formerly known as MSNBC, won't show the tanker seizure. The New York Times won't call out Thompson. It's up to us. It's up to you. Share this episode. Send it to friends. Post it on social media. The 2026 midterms are coming. If voters understand Democrats defended terrorists while Trump fought back,

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We can finish what we started. Democrats are telling us who they are. We just have to believe them and spread the word. I'll see you Monday with three more stories the mainstream media won't touch. This is O'Connor's Quick Strike and I'm John O'Connor. Hold the line, Patriots.