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PDB Afternoon Bulletin | February 11th, 2025: Trump Threatens ‘All Hell Will Break Loose’ In Gaza & U.S. Starts Venezuela Deportations
11 Feb 2025
In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin: President Trump issues a major ultimatum to Hamas, warning that if hostages aren’t released by Saturday, “all bets are off” and “hell” will break loose. Venezuela, a longtime U.S. adversary, agrees to its first deportation flights, sending nearly 200 Venezuelans back home. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief. YouTube: youtube.com/@presidentsdailybrief Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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It's Tuesday, 11 February. Welcome to the PDB Afternoon Bulletin. I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get briefed.
Well, start things off today with President Trump issuing a serious, significant ultimatum, I guess is there any other kind of ultimatum, to Hamas, warning that if hostages aren't released by Saturday, all bets are off and quote, hell will break loose. Later in the show, a big win for the White House.
Venezuela, obviously a longtime adversary of the U.S., has accepted its first deportation flights, sending nearly 200 Venezuelans back home. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. President Trump is drawing a hard line with Hamas, issuing an ultimatum after the group suspended its planned hostage release.
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Trump said, "...as far as I'm concerned, if all the hostages aren't returned by Saturday at 12 o'clock, I think it's an appropriate time. I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out."
Now, when asked for specifics on what exactly he meant by, quote, hell, the president kept it vague, saying only that Hamas, quote, will find out what I mean. Now, Hamas, unsurprisingly, wasn't thrilled with the remarks.
A spokesman for the terror group, oh, they've got a spokesman, Sami Abu Zuri, told AFP that Trump should remember that there's a ceasefire agreement in place and that threats, quote, have no value and only, quote, complicate matters.
Apparently, Sammy the Terrorist has forgotten that this whole tragic mess started with Hamas swattering over a thousand Israelis and taking 251 women, children, babies, and men hostage. Now, that is frankly what complicates matters. Now, as we reported yesterday, Hamas halted its upcoming hostage exchange, which was set to take place on Saturday.
The group accused Israel of breaking the ceasefire deal, specifically by blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza and preventing Palestinians from returning to the north. Israel has denied those claims. Frankly, a possible scenario here is that Hamas has suspended further hostage releases, well, because the hostages are the terror group's only remaining leverage.
And there may well be internal dissent and disagreement among Hamas leaders over just how to proceed. There's also the sad possibility that they simply don't have any more live hostages to release or don't have actual control over them, since other groups, including Islamic Jihad and various family criminal groups within Gaza, also took some of the hostages.
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