Smugglers don't use open boats or travel in broad daylight. These runs were staged by clandestine operatives who paid the boatsmen to operate in the Caribbean just so the US Armed Forces could get a picture. Probably not told they would be killed.
The CIA owns the boats. They buy the drugs. They recruit the smugglers.
The American people pay for it all just so Trump can justify his WAR ON DRUGS. Meanwhile, cargo ships with tons of cocaine and fentanyl continue to get through. All this is a photo op.
