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Mexican drug cartel 'not worried' about Trump: Reporter’s notebook
ABC News ^ | January 29, 2025 | Matt Rivers

Posted on 01/31/2025 5:06:19 PM PST by Twotone

If the Mexican cartels are concerned about President Donald Trump's plans for them, it sure didn't seem like it this night.

If only because someone who was worried probably wouldn't show a reporter the guns he'd just smuggled from the U.S. nor the fentanyl he was about to ship back north. Not to mention a safe house filled with migrants about to be crossed illegally at the border wall.

And yet that's what we saw, spending two nights with members of one the largest cartels in Mexico the week of Trump's inauguration.

They asked us not to share which cartel, but safe to say you've heard the name, as has Trump.

The president formally declared Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations via executive order and threatened to use the U.S. military against the groups. Deploying the U.S. military to the border is also meant as a deterrence to cartel smuggling.

The goal of our time with the group was to understand how the cartel is reacting to being squarely targeted by this new administration. The collective response was a shrug.

"We're not worried. This is day to day," one cartel member told us. "This is what we're going to do."

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cartels; crime; fentanyl; mexico; rotfl; smuggling; theywillbe; trump
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1 posted on 01/31/2025 5:06:19 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

They should really be worried about the Mexican government.
Do we have to do it for them?


2 posted on 01/31/2025 5:08:54 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Twotone

gotta go get that guy Pete. fast.


3 posted on 01/31/2025 5:09:03 PM PST by dadfly
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To: Twotone

Pride goeth….
They should be scared


4 posted on 01/31/2025 5:09:08 PM PST by blitz128
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To: Twotone

fafo


5 posted on 01/31/2025 5:09:28 PM PST by tsomer
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To: Twotone

Until they start dying.


6 posted on 01/31/2025 5:09:49 PM PST by DAC21
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To: Twotone

¿Qué, me preocupo?

English: What, me worry?


7 posted on 01/31/2025 5:09:55 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Twotone

LOL!


8 posted on 01/31/2025 5:10:23 PM PST by lewislynn
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To: Twotone

They lie. If the US military took to the drug problem with the enthusiasm they did during Gulf War II, it wouldn’t be any problem at all.


9 posted on 01/31/2025 5:10:53 PM PST by Jonty30 (If you ate your twin in the womb, your pronouns should be we/us.)
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To: Twotone
And yet that's what we saw, spending two nights with members of one the largest cartels in Mexico the week of Trump's inauguration.

They asked us not to share which cartel, but safe to say you've heard the name, as has Trump.

So our press can embed with a criminal org, now labelled terrorist... yet keep secrets for them?

10 posted on 01/31/2025 5:13:22 PM PST by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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Terrorist organization = we can go into Mexico and kill them and blow up the fentanyl distribution centers whereby China targets American with chemical warfare.

We are just getting started, folks.

But need to have 100% control of the border first.


11 posted on 01/31/2025 5:13:28 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Twotone
They asked us not to share which cartel,
Why not? I thought they weren't afraid.

BTW, isn't that aiding and abetting?

12 posted on 01/31/2025 5:13:57 PM PST by lewislynn
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To: Twotone

Everybody bleeds.


13 posted on 01/31/2025 5:14:04 PM PST by know.your.why (<>)
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“We’re not worried. This is day to day,” one cartel member told us. “This is what we’re going to do.”


tomorrow they worry....................


14 posted on 01/31/2025 5:14:38 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Twotone

Looks like some ABC reporters need to be waterboarded until they divulge the location of the hideout. After that summarily shot.


15 posted on 01/31/2025 5:14:50 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: Twotone

Oh, I’m sure they’re more than welcoming.


16 posted on 01/31/2025 5:16:15 PM PST by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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To: blitz128

If not, they will be soon.


17 posted on 01/31/2025 5:19:02 PM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Twotone

Cartels and CIA vs US Military

Let’s FAFO


18 posted on 01/31/2025 5:19:21 PM PST by delchiante
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To: chuckb87

Smells like bs. It is ABC after all.


19 posted on 01/31/2025 5:22:07 PM PST by waterhill (I Believe! Eph. 5:11. God Bless Israel.)
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To: Twotone

It’s best to boast after taking your armor off. Sic ‘em Pete!


20 posted on 01/31/2025 5:24:09 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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