Politics

NEW: Democrat Senator Flips, Smacks Down NYT Hit Piece Against Trump

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3 months ago

September 5, 2025

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U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) issued a massive smackdown on a recent hit piece from the New York Times, which seemingly stands against President Donald Trump and his administration’s power to use violent, deadly force against suspected drug smugglers.

“Overdosing takes 100,000+ American lives every year. Cartels wage this war against our nation everyday. Maybe it’s time for our nation to push back and hold the cartels fully accountable,” Fetterman wrote on social media platform X.

“By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill a group of people aboard what he said was a drug-smuggling boat, President Trump used the military in a way that had no clear legal precedent or basis, according to specialists in the laws of war and executive power,” the piece, written by NYT contributor Charlie Savage, says.

However, conservative lawmakers and political experts say that the designation of these individuals and the organizations they work for as terrorists makes them legitimate targets for the U.S. military.

The group of drug smugglers that was killed earlier this week belonged to a Venezuelan gang known as Tren de Aragua, which has been labeled as “narcoterrorists.”

According to a report from the Daily Wire, the smugglers received no warning from the Coast Guard. There was no attempt to bring them into custody.

“Until now, the absolute worst-case scenario is that they might get detained, very briefly, and maybe have to answer a question or two about why they’re heading towards the United States on a boat with four outboard motors and millions of dollars’ worth of narcotics. And then some NGO, armed with tax dollars commandeered by the Democrat Party, would jump into action and spring them loose, as Ivy League academics demanded that we respect the ‘civil liberties’ of sociopathic foreign drug traffickers,” the report continued.

The report goes on to say that, instead, NGOs and academics weren’t provided the time necessary to step in on behalf of the violent gang transporting illegal substances that would’ve killed millions of Americans. It notes that federal judges also weren’t given a chance to intervene.

The conclusion drawn from the piece is that Trump is taking real action to do something about the illegal drug trade in the U.S., and it’s making liberals and Democratic politicians very uncomfortable.