Posted on 10/24/2025 3:19:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
On the campaign trail, President Trump vowed to designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and go after them with the full might of the U.S. military. He has kept his word. He has not, however, gone to Congress for an official declaration of war as mandated by the Constitution.
“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war,” Trump told RealClearPolitics Thursday when asked about strikes against alleged cartel boats in the Caribbean off the coasts of Colombia and Venezuela. “I think we are going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country, OK? We are going to kill them, you know? They are going to be, like, dead.”
The Trump administration has dealt with drugs, not as a police question, but as a military one, and the president has not hesitated to use military action – despite the procedural objections of some Republicans – to crack down on the scourge of illicit fentanyl.
Without asking permission to strike at the cartels, the White House has kept Congress in the loop. A senior administration official told RCP that the administration has conducted seven separate classified briefings since early September with members and staff in both House and Senate leadership as well as the relevant committees.
This is a change, the official argued, from the way that previous presidents prosecuted the war against terrorists.
“The Trump administration has been much more forthcoming with the legal rationale behind these strikes than prior administrations,” the official said before pointing to the more than 500 drone strikes that the Obama administration conducted, “killing over 3,700 people, some of which were United States citizens, without offering any legal justification to Congress.”
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Rand Paul hardest hit...besides the drug traffickers.
Right. He wants to hold hearings! Just like with Fauci....oh, wait.
How can you actually declare a state of war with Narco-Terrorists? No uniforms, no government, no formal leader. There is nothing there except thugs. All you can really do is just kill them. Which Trump is doing.
ROFL!! 👍
Please open war on the CBD/Pot market Trump, not kidding, it’s a nightmare across the country.
Just do it.
Black Jack Pershing
The drug cartels are Barbary Pirates.
The leaders are known, just like Al Qaeda.
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