HOLY CRAP: President Trump Implies He May Strike The Drug Cartels INSIDE Venezuela!

Just yesterday, President Trump deployed F-34 Fighter Jets to Puerto Rico in his ever-evolving war against the Drug Cartels.

In case you missed it:

President Trump Deploys F-35 Fighter Jets to Puerto Rico to Target Drug Cartels

Now today he is strongly implying he may strike the Drug Cartels INSIDE Venezuela.

Holy crap!

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🚨 HOLY CRAP! REPORTER: “Are you considering attacking the cartels inside of Venezuela?”

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “You’re going to find out...!"

Here we go. Unleash the Department of War on the cartels.pic.twitter.com/fT4SUBlNfa

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 7, 2025

TRANSCRIPT:

President Trump, are you considering—are you considering attacking the cartels inside of Venezuela?

You attacked—

Well, you're going to find out. You're going to find out.

You attacked your predecessor—

I thought Jesse Watters had an excellent analysis of what President Trump is doing Friday night on his show.

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🚨 BREAKING: President Trump has escalated the fight against Mexican drug cartels to a level never seen before, declaring them terrorist organizations and ordering the U.S. military to prepare for potential drone strikes and raids deep within Mexican territory. THIS IS HUGE 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/FalvZlPI50

— TRUMP ARMY (@TRUMP_ARMY_) September 7, 2025

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Fox News alert: We're at war. This enemy, they don't wear a uniform. They're moving fentanyl by the truckload.

I want you to look at the contraband that's in front of me. We have right in—uh, 20 kilograms of fentanyl that's in front of me on this table. That's enough to kill 10 million people. The work that we do is to protect people and make sure that we remove these weapons and drugs off of our streets and hold those criminals accountable who would go forward and continue to use that to harm individuals.

Cartels are now officially in the Pentagon's crosshairs, and it's not just the wall anymore. Trump ordered the kill shot. The days of local drug busts in random motels, they were fun, but that's Breaking Bad stuff. Trump wants to take the fight to El Chapo's front yard.

We're talking about sending military forces to fight against the drug cartels in Latin America. Uh, do you think it's worth sending our forces, our US forces there to take this on? Cartels where? Latin America. Central Latin America. Well, uh, Latin America's got a lot of cartels and they've got a lot of drugs flowing, so, uh, you know, we wanna protect our country.

We have to protect our country. We haven't been doing it for 4 years. And, uh, we love this country like they love their countries. We have to protect our country. So, uh, you know, we're playing a tough game. According to The New York Times, behind the scenes, Trump's moving all the pieces into place to pull this off.

Mexico's got a big problemo. Yes, but it has nothing to do with Mexican territory. It has to do with their country. It does not involve our territory. So, it would be within the United States? Within the United States. Exactly. El Presidente doesn't comprehende. This isn't a Mexican standoff, this is an order.

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The CIA is already flying surveillance drones over Mexican territory, gathering intel on the battle space. And Trump's not sending diplomats, he's sending Hegseth, maybe with a new title. Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War, Department of Defense, Department of War? Well, that's what it was for many, many years.

You gave me that knife hand, Will. We'll see. Stand by. I don't get in front of the Commander-in-chief on that. Uh, but, uh, our job is to ensure our enemies know exactly what we'll do to them if they threaten us, up to and including total war. So, we'll be prepared. Stand by. There might be some news on that.

This is about protecting the homeland from groups like the Sinaloa Cartel. They import fentanyl from China and traffic it into the United States. Look at that. Trump designated them terrorists. And if they get cute, they're getting Soleimani-ed. You know who did the roadside bomb, right? Soleimani. Where is he? Where is he?

Former US Army Special Forces and President of WorldStrat, Jim Hansen. Jim, what kind of operations do you envision happening in Central and South America in this cartel war? Jesse, I don't think anybody would be more thrilled than me to watch some helmet cam footage of a bunch of JSOC pipe hitters repelling out of helicopters—and stacking cartel members like cordwood.

Now, that's the ultimate. Um, I don't know that we'll probably open with that. You know, there's likely to be a lot of increased surveillance. Uh, there may be some raids to pick up some people to arrest and put on trial. Uh, there'll be some interdiction off the coasts. The Navy can cover a lot more territory than the Coast Guard can, and together, they can cover both the exfil from Central and South America and the infield to us.

So, there's a lot of things to start with, but, uh, this is a tremendous step they're taking. All right. So, they could seize some guys off the field and bring them here and put them on trial. Could they also just drone strike these cartel bad guys right in their backyard?

You know, that's a lawyer question, but I'm gonna give you the common sense answer. If their cartels are killing people in the United States, and the MS-13 and Tren de Aragua gangs are, why can't we kill their leaders just the same way President Trump pointed out we took care of Soleimani?

So, there's our—That would be an imminent threat, right? I mean, if these guys are cooking up all this fentanyl and sending it into the cities and people are acting like zombies and keeling over, that's an imminent threat to the life and wellbeing of the American citizenry. Absolutely.

And I think the rationale we use for other terrorists we've killed through multiple administrations—Barack Obama still, I think, holds the record for the number of people killed overseas by drone strikes, including one US citizen. So, I think President Trump deciding that these guys who are definitely killing Americans with drugs, torturing and running people with human trafficking and child trafficking, those are things that I think all of America can look at and say, "We don't need to allow that."

And anything we do to them is probably justified at this point. Now, the Mexican president, she's played nice so far on trade, but it's a big no bueno, she says, if we start launching direct action into her territory. It's not even really her territory. I guess technically it is, but the cartels control almost that entire country.

What does that do to Mexico? Yeah. I mean, that is not her decision, you know? She's the one who runs a country that allows that to happen. So, if she wants to go ahead and try and tell President Trump, "We can't do that," we're gonna do what we need to, and she's gonna go ahead and face the consequences.

Um, that's something they've allowed for far too long. All right. Well, it looks like that time's up. Jim Hansen, good to talk to you. Let's bring in Jonathan Fahey, former acting ICE director and former DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary. Jonathan, great to have you on the show.

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I wanna play some sound here from the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. He said this about targeting cartels as terrorists. Their behavior's gonna have to change one way or another, but it allows us to now target what they're operating and to use other elements of American power, intelligence agencies, the Department of Defense, whatever—

Yeah, to target these groups if we have an opportunity to do it. We have to start treating them as armed terrorist organizations, not simply drug dealing organizations. I mean, I think it's a proper assessment. I don't know what you think about this, Jonathan, but it's interesting because these cartels are no longer just providing these illegal products by the thousands of pounds.

They're killing thousands of Americans. You're exactly right, and if you think about it, just during the Biden administration, 400,000 people died of overdose deaths just in that 4-year term. And as we know, there was just a complete dereliction of duty on the border, as well as taking it to the cartels.

And just for some context, that's 100,000 more than during the first Trump administration, so a massive increase. We need to take it to them because yeah, people are dying and President Trump isn't gonna just stand by and just say, "Oh, this is now the status quo, 100,000 Americans a year are gonna die of overdose."

This is unacceptable. He's gonna take it to them. And there's another benefit to this—by even talking about this, the messaging is so strong on this, this will inspire cooperation from all these countries where we may be acting in. So all of these will be a good thing, and we'll track this at the end of the year where these overdose deaths go.

And I'm interested in, you know, when you get pushback on this because the upside is enormous on this and the downside is also enormous. I mean, if you don't do this and you continue to let tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands Americans die, this is something that there is somewhat of a remedy to if we go forward.

Yeah, exactly. And it's almost like we've had 4 years where we weren't even trying to do something during the Biden administration. Yeah, it's not acceptable because 100,000 people a year dying, those are those people, their families, their communities, everyone in this country is affected by this.

So it's time to take it to these cartels, and their good days are over. They had their heyday under the Biden administration, but the game is up and the Trump administration's going after them, and I think this is very effective, not only substantively but I think the messaging is quite clear on this.