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BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

Trump Warned of a Tren de Arag...
Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story

Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.

WIRED
Jan 14 at 4:02pmWeb
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While officials publicly described Tren de Aragua as a centrally directed, Maduro-linked terrorist network, internal assessments repeatedly cited “intelligence gaps”—no confirmed leadership, no national coordination, and no evidence of foreign direction inside the US. www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump claimed TdA had “thousands” of members in the US. But internal CBP records show when officials couldn’t support that figure with evidence, they resorted to statistical sleight of hand to reach a number more in line with the president's claim, which was 30x higher than what CBP could prove.
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This article is free to read and was coauthored by me and @[email protected].
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@dell.bsky.social #trumpery #trump and his administration are like #russians if they speak they lie