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Posted on 12/13/2025 3:56:43 AM PST by Morgana
Senator Eric Schmitt delivered an absolute demolition of a clueless reporter on Tuesday after she tried—and failed spectacularly—to equate narco-terrorist drug-running vessels as harmless “fishing boats.”
What followed was a brutal reality check that the fake news media desperately needed.
While Democrats obsess over protecting cartel operatives and criticizing U.S. interventions, Schmitt made clear the only victims in this story are American families burying loved ones poisoned by fentanyl.
The exchange was filmed by Caden Olson, a congressional reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Reporter: If you can seize a tanker without killing anyone, shouldn’t that… If you can seize an oil tanker without killing anyone, shouldn’t that have been the way that these fishing boats were also stopped?
Eric Schmitt: Fishing boats? What is a fishing boat? The drug runners?
Reporter: The drug runners.
Eric Schmitt: Those aren’t fishing boats.
Reporter: Yeah, but…
Eric Schmitt: Those aren’t fishing boats.
Reporter: If you can seize a vessel without violence—
Eric Schmitt: Okay. Well, let’s talk about Article II authority. The President, the Commander in Chief, has identified and designated terrorist organizations—cartels who run drugs that kill 100,000 Americans a year.
There’s no legal question that he has the authority to blow those boats out of the water, and they will continue.
This, however—these were economic sanctions by the President, as delegated by Congress.
Those were enforced by civil authorities with the aid of the U.S. Navy. We’re talking about two very different things.
But if you’re asking me if I have sympathy for narco-terrorists killing Americans, whose boats are carrying the drugs that kill Americans, I don’t. I have sympathy for my neighbors in Missouri who’ve been poisoned, who die.
We finally have a President who cares about them more than Democrats care about going down to El Salvador to drink margaritas with terrorists. That’s how I feel about it.
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Fishing boats cruising at 30+ knots powered by four or five high powered outboard engines without any fishing gear and flying no flag of country of origin as required by international law of the sea. I’m certain they were delivering Christmas fruitcakes and toys for orphans to people living on remote islands someplace.
That CNN hack reporterette says you can fish from all of them.
That weould sound completely reasonable if we we were quoting some Democrat.
That would sound reasonable coming from a Dem reporter.
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