Washington, DC [US] September 23 (ANI): White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Sunday (local time) said that the United States had received a letter from Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro but dismissed its contents, calling it 'full of lies'. Frankly, I think there were a lot of lies that were repeated by Maduro in that letter, and the administration's position on Venezuela has not changed,' Leavitt told reporters at the media briefing. She said the US continues to view the Maduro government as illegitimate and stressed that President Donald Trump remains firm on countering drug trafficking allegedly linked to Venezuela. The letter comes after recent US operations against boats suspected of carrying narcotics from Venezuelan waters. 'Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking illicit narcotics, and was transiting along a known narcotrafficking passage en route to poison Americans,' Trump said.