Buck Brief - Trump Tells the Drug Cartels We Will Kill Them All

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drug vessel. These are boats, including submersible, which is really like a submarine, although it doesn't go deep. It just goes below the surface of the water to evade detection. But the Trump Department of War, led by my friend Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of War, rather, Pete Hegseth, has been taking the fight, truly taking the fight to the drug cartels in Venezuela. And here's what Trump says. I think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just going to... kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay, we're going to kill them. You know, they're going to be like dead. Yep. He says it. Pretty straightforward. We're going to kill them, you know. They're going to be like dead. The president has decided that after designating these groups like Trenda Aragua as narco-terrorists, they will be treated. as terrorists, and therefore this will actually be something much more like a war than the so-called war on drugs has been in the past. No more cartel boats full of fentanyl and other drugs flooding America. And not just, remember, it's not just that it kills people and overdoses, which is the thing that is the gut punch for everybody and communities all across the country. losing loved ones, losing young people, moms, dads, husbands, brothers, sons. That's going on to the roughly about 100,000 a year number. I think last year it went down to the 90s, but it's been well over 100,000 in recent years. But there's also the degradation of society that occurs because of this. For example, we often talk about the war on, I mean, not just the war on drugs, we talk about the war on crime or rather Trump wants to limit crime. and bring down the number of murders in this country substantially, certainly a very worthy goal. Well, what are most shootings? Most shootings involve what in America? Gang-related activity. If you go to inner city anywhere in any major metropolitan area, a lot of the homicides, even a majority of the homicides involve. Sure, there are some that are armed robbery and just that kind of criminality, but a lot of the time it is drug turf. and it is people shooting each other over gang-related incidents. These gangs really only are able to fund themselves through the sale of drugs. So if you can dramatically pull back their ability to get drugs like fentanyl, also obviously cocaine, heroin, other things, but if you can get their ability to get their hands on those drugs to be substantially less, you are cutting off the funding and really the incentive in many ways, the financial incentive for this kind of criminal activity. And then there's also on the user end side of this, the people who are the drug addicts. They commit crimes. This is what happens, say, in a city like San Francisco where I know they're turning it around now, but they had largely decriminalized drug use in certain places in the public, in public squares and parks. What you have is people then just are doing these drugs. They're incredibly addictive. And fentanyl is both very deadly and very addictive, very easy to overdose on and incredibly hard to get off of.

And so they just become these addict zombies who will do anything. They will give up the rest of their lives, whatever relationships and whatever aspirations they have. They give up the rest of their lives in order to feed the habit. And that can involve, usually does involve criminality. They'll start to steal. They'll sell drugs themselves so that they can feed their drug habit. It's just all spirals. So illegal drugs are terrible for this country in a whole range of ways. And specifically... Fentanyl needs to be treated as something very serious. And I'll tell you this. Senator Marco Rubio is not backing off this. I'm sorry, I said Senator. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio is not backing off this at all either. Here's what he says. Bottom line, these are drug boats. If people want to stop seeing drug boats blow up, stop sending drugs to the United States. But does it matter if it's in the United States? Well, these are all in international waters. When you do a strike in the United States or if we're the United States? Well, that's a different man. Now you're talking about a law enforcement matter. In this particular case, there are people traveling on international waters headed towards the United States with hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous, deadly drugs. And they're going to be stopped. And that's what's happening. And in the case last week, you saw there was a submarine. It was a submarine. It was a submersible. That's a drug boat all the way through. We know what these boats are. The president just said it. We tracked them from the very beginning. We know who's on them, who they are, where they're coming from, what they have on them. And, you know, if you're running drug boats, you're in grave danger. Yeah. People want to stop seeing drug boats blown up. Stop sending drugs to the United States. You know, the Democrats, I understand, are going to make a big deal of this. Some Republicans are starting to make a big... deal about this. But here's the problem Democrats have. They blew up a U.S. citizen without trial who was not engaged in any imminent lethal activity with Anwar Alaki. And they blew up his son, too, 16 years old, also a U.S. citizen. So they've, they've, the Obama administration set the precedent for under a covert action authority killing Americans without trial. and who were not an active combatant. Now, I understand you could say, well, they were plotting and they were doing bad things. Okay, yeah, but they weren't about to fire a rocket at somebody. They weren't about, they didn't have a gun in their hands taking part in active operations when they were killed. So, and I'd also remind everybody that, well, the decision to have the raid on bin Laden, I mean, and I think it was the right move, but. Steel Team 6 went in there, and it was a kill mission. They killed bin Laden. And that was on presidential authority as well. So let's not pretend like everybody in every circumstance all over the world, all the bad guys, even when Democrats are in charge, get to have ACLU provided attorneys and get to drag everything out and make it, no.

It's actually not the way things have worked, or rather not the way things have worked even when Democrats were in charge. So I think that's very important. I think it's notable that the Democrats are the ones that set this precedent. And so I will continue to point this out. Our sponsor is Preborn. Preborn is saving the lives of tiny babies day in and day out. Consider how they welcomed Victoria at one of their clinics. Victoria was scared, confused, and desperate when she first walked into a Planned Parenthood clinic, and they handed her the abortion pill. But she knew immediately this was a tragic mistake. And she then went to a pre-born clinic where truth and clarity broke through. There, the loving staff members gave her immediate care and helped her save not just her baby's life, but her own. Victoria got truthful answers about matters related to her unborn child at that preborn clinic. Because when a mother hears that heartbeat, lives are saved. Just $28 provides a free ultrasound to women like Victoria. That single gift, the experience of meeting her unborn child makes all the difference. And this is your chance to make a difference to. Will you answer the call? Pick up your phone, dial pound 250. That's pound 250 and say baby. pound 250 say baby or donate securely at preborn.com slash buck that's preborn.com slash b u c sponsored by preborn and uh so now you got democrats who are really uh making some noises about this one like for example Cory Booker when we took the extra judicial step to blow up speedboats there has been no oversight into that claimed attack on people that were allegedly smuggling drugs. We are constantly not doing our job, which is not a partisan one. It is to hold this president in check that no one operates without accountability and without transparency. Because power is corrupting. And when you let someone do what they want to do, when they want to do it without a check or a balance, it is corrupting. So we need to have accountability, he says. Okay, what is that going to be? Are we, we're supposed to now have these individuals who are bringing these, the fentanyl into the country? they're going to get a taxpayer-funded trial, or maybe they're just going to plead, and this is going to keep happening. Here's the problem that Democrats face with this. I understand that it can seem harsh, and it is. It's taking life. It's very serious business. But remember, we were taking a lot of lives in the Northwest Frontier Province with drone strikes based upon plotting. plotting against America. Again, Obama administration strikes. Obama dramatically ramped up the drone program in the places like Waziristan, Northwest Frontier Province, Quetta, these places in Pakistan where there were these extremists operating.

And they were, they were, well, some of the strikes, some of those places were just, were extremists were, they weren't, anyway. The point is they were doing strikes in these areas. And they weren't given trial. They were treated as combat, they were treated as, as a clear and present danger. And there were lethal orders given in a, to strike people in a country with which we were not at war. Okay. We were taking people out in Pakistan under the Obama administration for years, years and years. And I'm going to tell you, I actually don't disagree with what he was doing. Just because Obama did it, didn't make it wrong. Just because Obama gave the order for the bin Laden raid. Obviously, that was the right move. And using drones in the Fata, the federally administered tribal area of Pakistan and the Northwest NWFP, the Northwest Frontier provinces along the border with Afghanistan. It was the right move. It was effective, actually. You don't hear about this a lot, but killed a lot of Al Qaeda. It's true. We did. Now, why is that so different than cartels designated and told you are not allowed to keep bringing drugs into this country? Because the people that will overdose from one of these drug, one of these drug trafficking boats aren't to be considered of this of the same. urgency as people that were trying to avoid getting blown up on a plane or something from the terrorist maniacs of al-Qaeda. I mean, the more you think this thing through, the more clear I think it becomes that the war on drugs has to actually be more like a war. Everything else is not going to stop them. A long time ago, I went to briefings with the DEA. when I was a CIA officer, and obviously the briefing itself, they were giving us very tactical stuff, was classified back then. But I can tell you the broad, the broad spectrum, unclassified reality of the DEA then, and it has always been the reality of the drug enforcement administration, is as long as people are able to become very rich selling this poison into America and the worst thing they really face is going to prison in an American jail. They're going to keep doing it. And these cartels, which are now operating really at nation state level in the case of Venezuela, where you have the narco traffickers, in fact, the people in the government are narco traffickers, president, the vice president, they're dictators, but these are the titles they use. So they're funding, their oppression and their tyranny of people in Venezuela through the drug trade. Yes, also oil, but the drug trade is a big part of it too. That's ready cash that they have access to. And obviously, you're already evading the authority. It's not like we're going to officially sanction opioids coming into the country. It's already illegal. So that's something else to keep in mind here. There's a lot of downstream effects, negative downstream effects to our southern neighbors. Mexico is a huge example of this. of the drug trade and finding a way to actually stop it or to limit it from stopping it's probably not possible but to limit it substantially I think is I think Trump's I think people are going to agree with Trump on this one we're sick of Americans being poisoned by fentanyl we're sick of it and we're sick of people dying from it and we don't want this to be going on anymore and enough is enough

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