Apparently unsatisfied with merely playing apologist for human traffickers, murderers, rapists, vagrants, and flag-burners, the American left has now added bloodthirsty narcoterrorists to the list of people they’re committed to defending.
Earlier this week, the Trump administration released footage of the U.S. military annihilating a drug-filled boat containing 11 members of the Tren de Aragua (TDA) cartel off the coast of Venezuela. As The New York Post reported, “This is the first known attack on a cartel since Trump authorized the military to carry out such operations earlier this year.”
“TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere,” Trump wrote on Truth Social following the strike. “Please let this serve as notice to anybody even thinking about bringing drugs into the United States of America. BEWARE!”
Eleven dead cartel members trying to funnel deadly drugs into the United States should earn bipartisan applause. Overdose deaths skyrocketed under the Biden administration as drugs poured in across a wide-open southern border, crossing 100,000 in 2022 and 2023 before dipping slightly to 80,000 in 2024, according to CDC data.
By targeting the cartel, Trump was also fulfilling a key campaign promise he made last year to take the fight to the cartels and deploy the military to do the job. In a welcome contrast to the endless trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives spent by previous administrations on ill-advised nation-building projects, Trump was using the U.S. military how it was actually intended to be used: to defend the American homeland and protect the American people.
But for Democrats, the media, and the broader liberal establishment, who all must reflexively object to everything Trump does, the strike was an egregious violation of some unwritten code that says foreign drug cartels trying to poison Americans should be treated with kid gloves.
During a press conference in the Oval Office on Wednesday, one reporter questioned why the 11 TDA terrorists were “killed instead of taken into custody.” The official Black Lives Matter X account, meanwhile, said that Trump “murdered 11 people,” calling it an “execution.” Other high-profile left-wing accounts accused Trump of being a “war criminal” for attacking a “civilian vessel” – even if that vessel was being used to transport deadly drugs.
This is hardly an isolated incident of liberals planting their flag on the most indefensible ground imaginable. The same crowd that wailed over a cartel boat getting turned into chum just got done losing its mind over Trump’s order limiting flag-burning – yet another 80–20 issue where normal people are on one side and the left is sprinting to the other. They tripped over each other to shout about how it was “unconstitutional” without pausing to question how it sounds to the vast majority of Americans to defend the public desecration of the nation’s most unifying symbol.
The same reflex is at work in their canonization of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, the illegal alien who became the face of the liberal “resistance” to the Trump administration’s deportation agenda earlier this year. Prominent Democrats literally flew to El Salvador for a photo op and turned a criminal credibly accused of human trafficking and domestic abuse into the face of their party for weeks.
It is undisputed that Abrego-Garcia entered the country illegally, there is ample evidence tying him to MS-13, his own wife had sought protection from him, and police had investigated him before for human trafficking. Yet the left elevated him to hero status because it gave them another cudgel to swing at Trump. They chose the slogan over the victim, the narrative over the truth, and the optics over the law.
And then there’s Karmelo Anthony, the teenager who fatally stabbed a fellow student at a track meet and was subsequently cast by liberals as the “real” victim in the case. Even though another boy lay dead, Democrats insisted that his killer was actually the sympathetic figure in the tragedy.
And of course, in perhaps the most egregious and telling example of all, we cannot forget that many on the left blamed Jews following Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel two years ago. In the United States, even as Jewish students were verbally and physically assaulted and forced to barricade themselves inside buildings, leftists insisted that the anti-Semitic attackers were the real victims.
Every time, the script is identical: invert guilt and innocence, center the offender, erase the harmed, and demand that the rest of us accept this dystopian vision of the world.
This is why the left is hemorrhaging cultural influence and why Democrats are more unpopular than they care to admit. Ordinary people can smell this perversion of basic right and wrong a mile away. They want a country where the flag is honored, criminals are punished, borders mean something, and foreign terrorists live in fear.
So why do liberals keep committing this reprehensible error?
One reason is that their obsession with identity politics and the victim hierarchy has hopelessly corrupted their moral compass. They view everything through the lens of woke dogma, so much so that when a black teenager fatally stabs a white teenager at a track meet, they refuse to even consider that the “person of color” might be at fault.
The other even more obvious reason is their blinding hatred of Trump that compels them to oppose whatever he touches, even when it’s manifestly popular and obviously good for the country.
Which brings us back to the boat. Faced with a choice between protecting American communities and narcoterrorists, Trump chose the former, and the left chose the latter. They’re not mad because 11 cartel traffickers are at the bottom of the ocean as much as they’re mad because Trump put them there and reminded the country what moral clarity looks like.
If Democrats keep siding with flag-burners, traffickers, and violent criminals of all sorts, they won’t just lose another news cycle. They’ll lose the country even more than they have, and then they’ll lose more elections – and they’ll deserve to.
Shane Harris is the Editor in Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
The last two paragraphs say it all. Well done to Pres. Trump and the military establishment.
Our elected Leftists need to all be admitted to Walter Reed for a complete psychiatric evaluation and lie detector tests. There thinking is so far off base. They should also be forced to take classes on what the US Constitution actually says and means.
Had Obummer blown up the drug cartel boat, we’d all hear crickets from lamestream media and the radical liberal/terrorist organizations. BUT…. when President Trump defends Americans, the snowflake liberals have a meltdown. Quite frankly, had any conservative POTUS done the same thing, the crybabies would come out of the woodwork. ISN’T MAGA, AND WINNING, AND WATCHING LIBERAL HEADS EXPLODE FUN??? I’m loving it!!!
The problem with the left is, they can’t solve problems. Then when president Trump solves the problem they are against that. They have to. The premise of the left is destroy President Trump. What sane leader would allow 20 million people into the country without knowing if they are criminals or not. Have no plan to house them and sue the border states when they ship them up north. The left thought let them take care of it. We all saw what happened when they were shipped to Martha’s Vineyard. NIMBY they screamed. In 24 hours they were shipped out. They let millions of criminals out of jail. Including murderers and rapist. In Chicago they are not talking about killings and shootings or carjackings rapes and robberies. No. They are talking about president Trump sending troops to Chicago to stop crime. No the dems call it stopping elections. Tyranny and dictatorship. They are talking apples and oranges. But people are just as dead. They don’t talk about how to stop crime no they talk about how to destroy president Trump. They talk about crime in other cities while their own cities citizens are dying and being injured like in a war. No empathy for the locals. But ICE arrest an illegal migrant they are protesting, yelling and screaming. 8 people killed over the past weekend not a word. Drugs being shipped to America and president Trump stopped it. They are up in arms. Thousands of unaccompanied minors that Biden lost have been found and with the parents okay are being flown back to their homeland to their parents is stopped at the eleventh hour, by a weaponized judge, because it was a holiday. Not in their hime country. The left runs the country via the weaponized courts when they see a problem that president Trump solved. They rather these children be sold into slavery or sex trade than go home to be with their parents. You have to arrest the drug smugglers, you can’t just blow them up. That way the left can let them out of prison to be used against Trump. That there would be one person left in America that would call that humane, nothing humane about millions of fentanyl pills coming into our country killing our kids. The left don’t care for the citizens of the United States that don’t support their narrative. They talk about the opposition like the enemy. The MSM showing of the parade in China with Xi, Putin and Un made that perfectly clear. Communists are running this country financed by billionaires.
The radical liberals like Mamdami, Ihan Omar and Rashida Tlaib….full blown Communists. Their goal is to destroy any vestiges of the U.S. and especially to end any type of law enforcement in this country. If these radicals continue win public office, they will see success. It is frightening.
These narcos undoubtedly had weapons and a means to resist on board their boat. It only makes sense to do a stand off attack rather than endanger our military trying to “capture” the narcos.
A message to drug cartels: BOOM!!! MAGA!!!
This is an excellent article, we’ll written and cited, no matter what side you happen to on in the debate but no Liberal will read it! Very unfortunate.
DIMMs [at least their leadership] support terrorists both here in the US [antifa, BLM] and overseas [Hamas, TdA, MS13]. Why any SANE person would vote DIMM is beyond my comprehension!
These liberal Democrats need to take a ride on the cartel’s boat the next time as it heads towards THEIR children or family. Ignorance won’t be bliss then.
You can’t make this stuff up! The Democrats are so far out of touch with reality they are unelectable. They’ve made their positions crystal clear, they support criminals drug runners sex traffickers and rapist and murderers and they pee all over the average American citizen. They literally need to be classified as a domestic terrorist organization
Nobody has the “Right” to desecrate The Flag of The United States of America. If you’re not “For Us” you’re against us.If you’re against us; you’re the Enemy. “Don’t Tread on Me”
I say allow the Evil of the Left to keep exposing themselves. It is but another winning strategy for them in 2026 as it was for them in 2024. It has been said that Satan comes not with Sulphur and Cloven Hoof, but with smiles and beauty to corrupt. The Left’s version of smiles and beauty wear thinner and thinner as they continue in their spiraling madness.
There is absolutely no doubt that the sadistic and criminal-LOVING Democrats are America’s ENEMIES WITHIN. Praying that they NEVER EVER win another election.
The marxist democrat party and all the LOSERS they’ve elected are on the WRONG side of EVERY issue and are ENEMIES of American Citizens.
They support killing babies, drug cartels, illegal aliens who break our laws, criminals instead of law enforcement and communism as opposed to freedom! What’s wrong with democrats today??
They’re boxed in by their insane base. Dem politicians know any move to the center, imaginary or not, will incite a huge % of their voters into open rebellion. Dem pols fear not only electoral defeat but for their personal safety should they try to unite the party along centrist lines.
What I don’t get, is that there are some people who trip all over themselves over the dendems. These people roll over and pee themselves. They are so in love. They don’t want the truth. They love, love, love being lied to. I think to myself, “What are you?”,”Where is your humanity?”.
It’s like their minds are somewhere roaming around in the misty gray matter. They’re following the Pied Piper and chanting the lies told them, over and over. With no grounding, no reality, no truth.They have eyes but cannot see. Ears but they cannot hear.
It is because they have no love for the Truth.
If they are in the open ocean, carting drugs, they are a valid target, and it’s easy to tell if they are carrying drugs. If it is a semi-submerible, there is no question. That ignorant person who suggests they were fishermen should ask the Dutch, who patrol parts of the Caribbean. Fishermen don’t travel in boats that fast or carry rectangular bundles. It was a great shot, and we’d like to see more of them. Suicide drones will be the safest way. They can buzz close to confirm and then drop right in.
Great article, which clearly demonstrates that the Democrat Party, and their lapdogs in the media, are cancerous tumors bent on destroying this Country. America must rid itself of them or it will not survive.
It’s a war on drugs…take no prisoners!
The dictionary defines “fatuous” as complacent stupidity. The leftists buffoons would need to experience a meteoric rise in intelligence to arrive at this level of mental ability. And a slightly small level of improvement could get them described as brain dead.
Go Trump Go! Democrats lost the country in 2016, and their only wins since were all due to cheating in elections. Screw them. If we had started blowing up drug boats during the so called “War on Drugs” in the 1980’s when we should have, There’s no telling how many lives would have been saved, or saved from ruined lives. I want to see Hellfire missiles from drones hitting Mexican cartel hideouts, safe houses, drug labs, boats, and anywhere else we find them. So many lives, so many people that would still be here. That’s how to wage a War on Drugs. If the Mexican government, won’t do it. We need to just plain out declare war on Venezuela, send fleets of armed drones to patrol, and regularly take out TDA and military assets there. Waging war in this hemisphere will be a lot cheaper than doing it overseas, we won’t need to us anywhere as much fuel, or make out boys have to go to foreign countries. Drones, and hit and run missions in Mexico with bases in TX, AZ, NM, and CA to attack from, and FL base to handle Gulf and Caribbean and Atlantic traffickers. Blowing up smuggling boats is much safer and cheaper, and easier than having the Coast Guard chase and catch them. No risk to our military people.
Killing terrorists is not murder and burning the US flag is not freedom of speech. Lighting the nations flag on fire is not speaking. Shouting your opinion out loud is free speech. Burning things is not.
The deeper the Dems, woke leftists go down the rabbit hole wth Satan the more I wonder if they are American or just totally insane.
It sickens me to see how much support these gangs and terrorist groups have in this country. It’s not only sickening, it’s scary. BLM calls it an execution?? On their X account?? Why do they even have an X account to be able to promote their terrorist poison? C’mon Elon!! Don’t want to hear about freedom of speech here, as an excuse to promote terrorism! Trump and the military did the right thing. My question is what took so long? Want to solve a problem? Eliminate the source! There should be more of this… Great job!
The Dumbacrats are a bunch whining cowards. They have no logic or common sense. Take away all the security around the their leaders and lets see how fast they change their tune.
Blame the evil people who vote for Democrat Party candidates. There has been enough time for even the idiots to have seen how criminal the Democrat Party is and they choose to vote for them because they are rotten to the core. NO ONE can be stupid enough to not know what they are voting for. Since these rotten voters hate America so much they should relocate to a country that is to their liking – someplace that worships criminals and detests decency.
It’s really a shame dems don’t realize how pathetic they are…
Democrats need to pay for what they have done to our country, they are enemies! They have clearly committed treason and should be punished accordingly!!!!
That means Democrats believe that if we’re in a war we can’t kill the opponents we have to arrest them and put them on trial.
While they hate Trump let’s face it, they really would fight tooth and nail over all these things even if Trump didn’t exist. You know that oath of Hippocrates that Doctors are Supposed to honor, “First Do No Harm”? The Democrats have their own version of that oath only theirs is “First, Only, And Always Do Harm!”.
The last two paragraphs pretty much sums it all up. Do we want MORE of this death and destruction coming INTO our country, as evidently the Dumba$$ocrat$ are satisfied to see? Or should we do what needs doing to keep that s**t overseas where it belongs!?
The push is on toward savagery. We have to push back.
As much of a reflex as the TDS of the LEFT, I have a reflexive reaction opposing the insane demands for due process from the LEFT….
Just eating my popcorn, laughing, as I watch Leftist Heads catch fire and explode. It’s both funny and sad, all at the same time. With no moral compass—heck, no compass at all it seems like, I often wonder how these people even find their own bathroom. They are either the biggest useful idiots man has ever known, or they are knowingly evil. Or maybe something of both….
URGENT MESSAGE:
STOP VOTING FOR EVEN 1 DEMORAT???? STOP VOTING FOR ANY DEMORAT FOR ANY GOVERNMENT POSITION [NO MATTER HOW SMALL THE JOB APPEARS TO BE]. THESE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THE BOTTOM OF A RIVER WHERE BOTTOM DWELLERS RESIDE! THEY ARE EVIL! THEY HATE AMERICA!
THEY HATE AMERICANS!
THE ONLY THING THEY CARE ABOUT IS THEMSELVES (VERY LIMITED THOUGH) & THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS! THEY HATED TRUMP TAKING THEIR NGO (USAID)
KICK BACK-PIGGY BANKS AWAY!
THEY HAVE NO SHAME ABOUT LEAVING THE BORDER OPEN TO RUIN AMERICA’S CITIZENS! THEY WERE TO BUSY WITH THE AUTO PEN (GETTING RICH FOR DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING FOR 4 LONG YEARS) AND ALL THE WHILE OBAMA ON DOWN BLAMING THE ABSENTEE “PRESIDENT BIDEN”. BLAMED HIM FOR THEIR TREASONOUS ACTIONS AGAINST AMERICANS!
LET’S DISMANTLE THE ENTIRE DEMORAT FAKE PARTY BY NOT VOTING FOR EVEN 1 IN ANY STATE, COUNTY OR CITY!
LET’S TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!
PERIOD!????
Keep in mind also that just behind US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, Venezuela is 5th largest oil producing country in the Western Hemisphere. If the USA can get Venezuelan politics back to some version of legitimacy, the close-by source of plentiful oil would be a decided benefit economically to the trans-Caribbean region.
Follow the pretro $$$.
Also…nice shooting by our Navy/Coast Guard/DEA!!
What do libs call 11 terrorists bringing drugs to kill Americans set on fire in the ocean?
Martyrs.
What do norniea call them?
Exrra Crispy Fish Food.
Let God sort it out but 11 less terrorists is just start.
Lers get Maduro next…and far more brutally. With trump Venezuela can be Valhalla…
Michael Savage wrote a book: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder. Boy was he right!
The Libtard Leftists Democrats have demonstrated they have no moral compass. One can only surmise that the louder they yell, the less relevant they are. Let’s hope they continue to yell, and yell even louder, so they can become even MORE irrelevant in American life. Our ultimate hope is that the Dem party self-extinguishes itself and becomes little more than a mere (and negative) footnote in history.
If it’s the right thing to do, the Left will be against it. Very sad they need medical help to fight this Dease they have.
If Trump did it, it must be bad,
There is also the simple fact that the smugglers boats can outrun the Navy and Coast Guard, but they can’t outrun a missile or 2.
Hey Juan look up there at that thing coming at us, perhaps it is a sign from God that we are doing good work foe Maduro and maybe we will..
BOOM.
SATAN HAS 11 MORE TOYS TO LAY WITH AND WE ARE SAFER.
Democratic party needs to be disbanned!
The ongoing mindset of the Far-Left Liberal Demo-Donkey voter is cemented in “CLOSEMINDEDNESS” so much so that they have lost the ability to discern what they have allowed their (no longer the Democratic Party) to do to them and their nation! How can anyone justify their support of a group of Marxist/Socialist Politicos disguising (not very well) themselves as Democrats without being controlled by “CLOSEMINDEDNESS?” “TRUTH” supported by factual documentation (not unsupported innuendo) speaks for itself! Please, face it, you (dyed-in-the-wool-my party-or-no party) no longer have a legitimate Democratic party to hold onto! Look at what the past (8) months, despite the mainstream media’s attempts to squash the truth, have revealed! DOGE/MAGA have exposed (the-tip-of-the iceberg) of the disasterous decline of command and control of our nation for a political party’s self-serving gains. Biden and Obama befriended China’s CCP so much so that we now have their operatives entrenched in every aspect of the interworkings of our nation! CCP police stations on our soil! Our Nation’s farm lands owned by CCP affiliates! The list is far too long to address here! When the dust settles and the time is right for an independent analysis of the disasterous consequences of their Administrations, the “CLOSEMINDEDNESS” voter will most likely suffer heart failure. America, of those described here, you had better quit drinking the “tainted koolaide” as it is eroding your cognitive abilities! Quit, before you no longer have any ability to think for yourselves. Unfortuantely, indications are, there are too many of you at that point already! “DENIAL” is destructive, for you and our Nation! President Donald Trump is a “living martyr” whose “actual, business and political life” are and have been constantly threatened because of his patriotic belief that our nation is worth the war he is waging against all the “WRONG” that now exists within it. People, ask yourselves, could or would you do the same? DOGE/MAGA are his weapons of war and they are delivering positive results! Yes, the consequences, seem at first, harsh and maybe even unfair, however, not in the long run! To rid the barrel of its rotten contents, you have to remove the source of that rot! Socialism is their goal, not in my America! Please, perform your own due-diligence, compare notes, read something other than the slanted “Liberal Left-Wing” propaganda of the mainstream media, it is out there for your perusal. What I ask you to do is to have “OPENMINDEDNESS” not “CLOSEMINDEDNESS” both for your wellbeing and that of our Nation. In GOD We Trust! GOD Bless America! May GOD’s Grace be bestowed upon our Nation and its citizens. May “TRUTH and JUSTICE” ultimateky prevail! Reading material to better understand our heritage: The American Covenant (The Untold Story) and how to delay the inevitable: Twilight’s Last Gleaming and The Battle For The 21st Century. For you seeking a path to salvation: Not All Roads Lead To Heaven (Devotional). If Conservatives cannot unite and muster the consolidated will to support their “CHAMPION” as well as the entire GOP/RNC as his go to backup, the war will be lost! The opposition is not going to just quit, they have to be defeated and soundly defeated!
The proof is in the pudding you look at West Virginia and the town’s there Parkersburg Morgantown other places have lost population due to drug deaths there it’s an epidemic and the Democrats act like we’re trying to do something unusual here by fighting it . The article is in the Epic Times newspaper.
Why did this action take so long,Did all of the drug deaths finally catch up with the liberal,socialist democ rats,I don’t think so,it had to be something else.
Too bad we can’t load a very large ship with narcoterrorist sympathizers and see if they can outrun a missile. These sympathizers are sick and don’t deserve to live in a free America. Just ask someone who has lost a loved one to drug addiction.
Just recently watched the movie Cocaine Bear. When will the Cocaine Shark movie will be coming out?