December 16, 2025 • 16 mins
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Crime Data Manipulation in Washington, D.C.
- Investigations by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the House Oversight Committee revealed that crime statistics were deliberately misclassified by the Metropolitan Police Department.
- The outgoing police chief, Pamela Smith, allegedly pressured commanders to report lower crime figures, downgrade serious offenses, and even retaliated against those who tried to report accurate data.
- These actions created a “culture of fear” within the department, undermining public trust. While the conduct did not lead to criminal charges, it raised serious concerns about transparency and governance.
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Fentanyl Classified as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
- Former President Trump signed an executive order categorizing fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, citing its catastrophic impact on American lives.
- The order frames fentanyl as a national security threat, aligning it with nuclear and chemical weapons, and authorizes expanded measures against drug cartels.
- This initiative is part of a broader military and policy campaign targeting narcotics trafficking, including naval operations and sanctions against Venezuela’s leadership accused of narco-terrorism.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
University of mister Custin, do you know what the motives
of this hooter was? Is it that's moving along now?
And then we dug and will We're going to see
what happens.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hopefully they're going to capture this animal.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got
two big stories for you that are not being covered
by the mainstream media. First up, the United States Attorney
for the District of Columbia, Judge Janine, said that her
office has an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department of
DC and it has revealed widespread misclassification, deliberately of crime
(00:47):
stats that made Washington, DC's crime levels appear lower than
they actually were. How did they do it and how
bad was the fraud? We'll expose it all for you. Also,
the President nine say, it's of America taking a major
step to save many American lives, classifying fetanyl now as
(01:07):
a weapon of mass destruction. So what does this mean
for what he can do now to Narco Terrace. It's
going to give the President even more power to go
after them. I will break it down for you, but
first I want to tell you about an amazing opportunity
right now that I'm involved in and I cannot wait
for you to take advantage of it. I want you
(01:29):
to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free.
You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been
influencing conservatives like myself for decades. They had a huge
impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and even as memorial service
they talked about how Charlie took class after class after
class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you,
(01:53):
the listeners of this show, more than forty free I
want to say that again, free online courses. That's right,
more than forty three online courses. You can learn about
the works of C. S. Lewis, the stories in the
Book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the
rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history
(02:16):
of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free
online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking the Constitution one
oh one, and this course you're going to exploit the
design and the purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it
faced during the Civil War, and how it has been
undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals.
(02:40):
This twelve lecture course is self pace. It's another reason
why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in
our country. We need more Americans like you and I
than understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of
the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments
on our God given rights. So start your classes today
(03:03):
for free. Start your free Constitution one oh one course
right now. How do you do it? Go to Hillsdale
dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll and it's no cost.
It's easy to get started. You got to use a
special website Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update. Enroll for
(03:25):
free Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update. It's the forty
seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What's easier than actually fighting crime? Well, if you're a Democrat, apparently,
line about the crime stats to make it look like
you're fighting crime is more important than actually saving American lives.
We now know that is exactly what was happening in Washington, DC.
The US Attorney judge Andine said that DC authorities were
(03:55):
literally artificially deflating crime stats to manipulate the numbers to
make it look like DC was safer than it actually was.
That's right, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,
saying that her office is investigation into the Metropolitan Police
Department revealed widespread miss classification of crime reports that made
(04:20):
DC crime levels appear lower than they actually were, meaning
fewer victims. The US Attorney for the District of Columbia
revealed in a statement posted to her official ex account
that in August of twenty twenty five, the United States
Attorney's Office in DC began an investigation into the Metropolitan
(04:41):
Police Department's reported deflation of crime statistics. The need for
accurate information to fight crime, she went on to say,
is essential, but that wasn't what Democrats were doing at
all in DC. They just wanted to lie to the
people while crime was out of control, saying it's not
a as bad as you think it is. She went
(05:02):
on to say this after review of almost six thousand
reports and the interview of over fifty witnesses, it is
evident that a significant number of reports had straight up
been misclassified, making crime appear artificially lower than reality. Now,
the uncovering of these manipulated crime stystics make clear that
(05:26):
President Trump has reduced crime even more than originally thought.
Since crimes were actually higher than reported, his crime fighting
efforts have delivered even more safety to the people of
the District of Columbia. Judge Janine concluded that quote, while
the conduct did not rise to the level of a
criminal charge, it is up to the MPD to take
(05:49):
steps to internally address these underlying issues. Even more about
this has broken since then, and the jow Dropping report
has just come out from the House just to confirm
what we all knew. The left wing DC police chief
falsified crime statistics, cooking the books to make her city
(06:12):
seem much safer than it actually was. Take a listen
to this from.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Fox Led a House Overside Committee now releasing a report
accusing the outgoing DC police chief manipulating data to artificially
lower crime statistics. Bill Malusian looking at the numbers, He's
live on the Hill with this Bill. What you find out? Bill,
Good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Those House Overside Committee Republicans say the bottom line of
what their investigation found is that the outgoing DC Police
chief was essentially cooking the books on crime data and
trying to make the city seem a whole lot safer
than it really was. Now, those House Republicans say what
their investigation consisted of was interviewing all seven commanders of
DC Metro Police's patrol districts, including a former commander who
(06:57):
is currently suspended for allegedly ten mpering with crime stats
in his own district. And these are some of the
conclusions they've made in their report. They alleged that DC
Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith pressured commanders to report lower
crime stats by any means necessary. The commanders testified that
Chief Smith even pushed them to pursue lesser charges that
aren't publicly reported, even for serious crimes, and she required
(07:22):
certain crimes to be reviewed by her office now. The
report also says police commanders testified that Chief Smith punished
them and retaliated against them if they tried to report
accurate rising crime data, even braiding them in meetings and
individually to pressure them into reporting those lower crime figures. Now.
In a statement on the report, House Overside Committee Chairman
(07:44):
James Comer says, in part quote, Chief Pamela Smith coerced
staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a
culture of fear to achieve her agenda.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A culture of fear to attempt to attain her agenda.
Pola Chief rigged the data. She didn't actually fight crime.
She just lied about the crime stats, pressuring the commanders
to report lower crime statistics, push them to pursue lesser
(08:16):
charges for serious crimes. Required certain crimes to actually be
reviewed by her office, not because she was afraid of
what was happening on the streets in the district of Columbia. No no, no,
no no, so that she could misclassify them so it
wouldn't seem as dangerous and retaliated and punished individuals if
(08:37):
they reported crimes accurately. You look at this data and
you hear what I just played for you. It is
shocking to know that this was how things are being run.
We found out even more from Fox News Channel about
all of this in a later report in the afternoon
(08:59):
take at.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
All right and moments ago. US Attorney Janin Piro here
in Washington, d C. Responding to allegations the DC crime
data was manipulated by the outgoing police Chief Pamela Smith.
That claim coming from a new House Oversight Committee report
our Congressional correspondent Bill Malojia and with the latest on
Capitol Hill, Bill well John.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say their investigation concluded
that this outgoing DC police chief was trying to make
the city seem a whole lot safer than it really was,
and she was doing it by allegedly cooking the books
on crime statistics. So the Republicans on the committee say
their investigation consisted of interviewing seven different DC Metro Police
(09:42):
commanders who represent all of the patrol districts out here.
That included a former commander who's currently suspended for allegedly
tampering with crime stats in his own district. And these
are some of the conclusions they've made in their report.
Number one, they alleged that DC Metro Police Chief Pamela
Smith pressured commit to report lower crime stats by any
(10:03):
means necessary. Commanders testified that Chief Smith pushed them to
pursue lesser charges that aren't publicly reported, even for serious crimes,
and she also required certain crimes to be reviewed by
her office. In a statement on this report. House Overside
Committee Chairman James Comer says, in part quote, Chief Pamela
Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and
(10:25):
cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Chief
Smith's decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime stats
is dangerous and undermined trust in both local leadership and
law enforcement. Meanwhile, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was asked to
respond to the House Overside Committee Republicans' findings earlier this morning.
Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't see any evidence of that if the claim is,
and I don't think anybody is demonstrated that the police
chief directed anybody to change numbers when those when the
committee provides me their backup information, which they haven't, and
the committee provided the report to the Washington Post before
they provided it to us. Highly unusual when you're talking
(11:08):
about an audit of numbers.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And John just moments ago, the US Attorney here in
d C, Janine Piro, responded to this report. She put
out a statement on X which essentially says that yes,
these crime stats were manipulated, and the manipulation of that
data shows that President Trump has reduced crime here in
DC a whole lot more than initially thought. She went
on to say that what happened here with the crime
(11:32):
stats does not rise to the level of any criminal
charges or a crime, but that the DC Police Department
has to change their practices moving forward. Well, send it
back to.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
You, yeah, I another Before everything changed in this summer, we
were all hearing, well, the crime is down in DC,
and none of us said anything to peg that toos.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
None of us had any of that to peg it to.
So the DC Police chief manipulating the crime data, artificially
lowering the crime stats, and coerced staff to report low
data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda,
and didn't punish the criminals. She punished the DC police
(12:11):
officers to pursue lesser charges for serious crimes. This is
the Democratic Party and it's exactly why Donald Trump won
the election. It's also exactly why he's fighting crime all
over the country and sending in the National Guard, because
even in cities where Democrats claim crime was dropping, they
(12:32):
were flat out lying and cooking the books.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Now story number two, President.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Trump has made it very clear that he believes that
Fetnolm is a national security threat. It is killing in
essence a plane of Americans every single day. No one
in this country would stand for a plane crash every day,
of innocent Americans crashing to the ground. But that's the
equivalent of what is happening at the hands of narcotra.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Donald Trump is moving forward with an idea of classifying
fetanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That's right, President
Trump saying on Monday that he was classifying fetanyl as
a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration's campaign
against drug cartels in Latin America. Quote, no bomb does
(13:22):
what this is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand
people die every year that we know of. Trump set
at the signing of an executive order that places fetanol
in the same category as nuclear and chemical weapons. In
twenty twenty four, the Sentence for Disease Control and Prevention
report an estimated total of about eighty thousand overdose deaths
(13:43):
in the country, with some forty eight thousand of those
due to synthetic opioids. The executive order set ilicit fetanyl
is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic and
that it threatens our national security and fuel is lawlessness
in our hemisphere and at our borders. The FETANL classification
(14:05):
ties in with the Trump administration's war against alleged narco terraces,
which has included a military campaign targeting drug smuggling boats
with strikes that have left nearly ninety people dead since
early September. While Trump argues that destroying each of the
more than twenty intercepted vessels saves twenty five thousand American lives,
(14:28):
the left is furious that the president would actually go
after boats carrying cocaine and fetnyl and other synthetic opioids
driving the overdose crisis. Leave it to the Democratic Party
to defend the terrorists instead of protecting American citizens. Trump
is a coming to strikes with a massive military build
(14:48):
up as well in the Caribbean that includes the world's
largest aircraft carrier and a slew of other warships, while
a string of US military aircraft have flown along Venezuela's
co in recent weeks.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
While Trump and his administration say the target of the
military build up is drug trafficking, Venezuela as radical narco
terrorist leader Maduro, is accusing Washington of using narcotics smuggling
as a pretext for what he says is regime change
in Caracas. The United States has sought to link the
two issues, and Donald Trump is leading on it, accusing
(15:25):
Maduro of leading the alleged Cartel of the Sons, which
is declared to narco terrorist organization, and now offering a
fifty million dollar reward for information leading to Maduro's capture.
So this is yet again another campaign promise that has
now turned into reality. President Trump said he was going
to do everything he could to keep Americans safe from fetnol,
(15:48):
and this is one step forward in classifying the drug
in a way that now allows him even more authority
to go after those that are selling it, those that
are shipping it, and those that are producing it.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Thank you for listening to the forty seven Morning Update
with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever
you're listening to this podcast right now and for more
in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast
and we will see you back here tomorrow
University of mister Custin, do you know what the motives
of this hooter was? Is it that's moving along now?
And then we dug and will We're going to see
what happens.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Hopefully they're going to capture this animal.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
You're listening to the forty seven Morning Update with Ben ferguson.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Tuesday morning. It's so nice to have you with
us on the forty seven Morning Update. And we've got
two big stories for you that are not being covered
by the mainstream media. First up, the United States Attorney
for the District of Columbia, Judge Janine, said that her
office has an investigation into the Metropolitan Police Department of
DC and it has revealed widespread misclassification, deliberately of crime
(00:47):
stats that made Washington, DC's crime levels appear lower than
they actually were. How did they do it and how
bad was the fraud? We'll expose it all for you. Also,
the President nine say, it's of America taking a major
step to save many American lives, classifying fetanyl now as
(01:07):
a weapon of mass destruction. So what does this mean
for what he can do now to Narco Terrace. It's
going to give the President even more power to go
after them. I will break it down for you, but
first I want to tell you about an amazing opportunity
right now that I'm involved in and I cannot wait
for you to take advantage of it. I want you
(01:29):
to take some incredible courses at Hillsdale College for free.
You may not know this, but Hillsdale College has been
influencing conservatives like myself for decades. They had a huge
impact on Charlie Kirk's life, and even as memorial service
they talked about how Charlie took class after class after
class at Hillsdale College. Hillsdale College is now offering for you,
(01:53):
the listeners of this show, more than forty free I
want to say that again, free online courses. That's right,
more than forty three online courses. You can learn about
the works of C. S. Lewis, the stories in the
Book of Genesis, the meaning of the US Constitution, the
rise and fall of the Roman Republic, or the history
(02:16):
of the ancient Christian Church, all with Hillsdale College's free
online courses. Right now, I'm personally taking the Constitution one
oh one, and this course you're going to exploit the
design and the purpose of the Constitution, the challenges it
faced during the Civil War, and how it has been
undermined for more than a century by radical progressives and liberals.
(02:40):
This twelve lecture course is self pace. It's another reason
why I love it. So start whenever and wherever in
our country. We need more Americans like you and I
than understand the Constitution and can defend the freedom of
the American people against the left and their increasing encroachments
on our God given rights. So start your classes today
(03:03):
for free. Start your free Constitution one oh one course
right now. How do you do it? Go to Hillsdale
dot edu slash Morning Update to enroll and it's no cost.
It's easy to get started. You got to use a
special website Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update. Enroll for
(03:25):
free Hillsdale dot edu slash Morning Update. It's the forty
seven Morning Update and it starts right now.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Story number one.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What's easier than actually fighting crime? Well, if you're a Democrat, apparently,
line about the crime stats to make it look like
you're fighting crime is more important than actually saving American lives.
We now know that is exactly what was happening in Washington, DC.
The US Attorney judge Andine said that DC authorities were
(03:55):
literally artificially deflating crime stats to manipulate the numbers to
make it look like DC was safer than it actually was.
That's right, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,
saying that her office is investigation into the Metropolitan Police
Department revealed widespread miss classification of crime reports that made
(04:20):
DC crime levels appear lower than they actually were, meaning
fewer victims. The US Attorney for the District of Columbia
revealed in a statement posted to her official ex account
that in August of twenty twenty five, the United States
Attorney's Office in DC began an investigation into the Metropolitan
(04:41):
Police Department's reported deflation of crime statistics. The need for
accurate information to fight crime, she went on to say,
is essential, but that wasn't what Democrats were doing at
all in DC. They just wanted to lie to the
people while crime was out of control, saying it's not
a as bad as you think it is. She went
(05:02):
on to say this after review of almost six thousand
reports and the interview of over fifty witnesses, it is
evident that a significant number of reports had straight up
been misclassified, making crime appear artificially lower than reality. Now,
the uncovering of these manipulated crime stystics make clear that
(05:26):
President Trump has reduced crime even more than originally thought.
Since crimes were actually higher than reported, his crime fighting
efforts have delivered even more safety to the people of
the District of Columbia. Judge Janine concluded that quote, while
the conduct did not rise to the level of a
criminal charge, it is up to the MPD to take
(05:49):
steps to internally address these underlying issues. Even more about
this has broken since then, and the jow Dropping report
has just come out from the House just to confirm
what we all knew. The left wing DC police chief
falsified crime statistics, cooking the books to make her city
(06:12):
seem much safer than it actually was. Take a listen
to this from.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
Fox Led a House Overside Committee now releasing a report
accusing the outgoing DC police chief manipulating data to artificially
lower crime statistics. Bill Malusian looking at the numbers, He's
live on the Hill with this Bill. What you find out? Bill,
Good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Those House Overside Committee Republicans say the bottom line of
what their investigation found is that the outgoing DC Police
chief was essentially cooking the books on crime data and
trying to make the city seem a whole lot safer
than it really was. Now, those House Republicans say what
their investigation consisted of was interviewing all seven commanders of
DC Metro Police's patrol districts, including a former commander who
(06:57):
is currently suspended for allegedly ten mpering with crime stats
in his own district. And these are some of the
conclusions they've made in their report. They alleged that DC
Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith pressured commanders to report lower
crime stats by any means necessary. The commanders testified that
Chief Smith even pushed them to pursue lesser charges that
aren't publicly reported, even for serious crimes, and she required
(07:22):
certain crimes to be reviewed by her office now. The
report also says police commanders testified that Chief Smith punished
them and retaliated against them if they tried to report
accurate rising crime data, even braiding them in meetings and
individually to pressure them into reporting those lower crime figures. Now.
In a statement on the report, House Overside Committee Chairman
(07:44):
James Comer says, in part quote, Chief Pamela Smith coerced
staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a
culture of fear to achieve her agenda.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A culture of fear to attempt to attain her agenda.
Pola Chief rigged the data. She didn't actually fight crime.
She just lied about the crime stats, pressuring the commanders
to report lower crime statistics, push them to pursue lesser
(08:16):
charges for serious crimes. Required certain crimes to actually be
reviewed by her office, not because she was afraid of
what was happening on the streets in the district of Columbia. No no, no,
no no, so that she could misclassify them so it
wouldn't seem as dangerous and retaliated and punished individuals if
(08:37):
they reported crimes accurately. You look at this data and
you hear what I just played for you. It is
shocking to know that this was how things are being run.
We found out even more from Fox News Channel about
all of this in a later report in the afternoon
(08:59):
take at.
Speaker 6 (09:00):
All right and moments ago. US Attorney Janin Piro here
in Washington, d C. Responding to allegations the DC crime
data was manipulated by the outgoing police Chief Pamela Smith.
That claim coming from a new House Oversight Committee report
our Congressional correspondent Bill Malojia and with the latest on
Capitol Hill, Bill well John.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
Republicans on the House Oversight Committee say their investigation concluded
that this outgoing DC police chief was trying to make
the city seem a whole lot safer than it really was,
and she was doing it by allegedly cooking the books
on crime statistics. So the Republicans on the committee say
their investigation consisted of interviewing seven different DC Metro Police
(09:42):
commanders who represent all of the patrol districts out here.
That included a former commander who's currently suspended for allegedly
tampering with crime stats in his own district. And these
are some of the conclusions they've made in their report.
Number one, they alleged that DC Metro Police Chief Pamela
Smith pressured commit to report lower crime stats by any
(10:03):
means necessary. Commanders testified that Chief Smith pushed them to
pursue lesser charges that aren't publicly reported, even for serious crimes,
and she also required certain crimes to be reviewed by
her office. In a statement on this report. House Overside
Committee Chairman James Comer says, in part quote, Chief Pamela
Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and
(10:25):
cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Chief
Smith's decision to mislead the public by manipulating crime stats
is dangerous and undermined trust in both local leadership and
law enforcement. Meanwhile, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was asked to
respond to the House Overside Committee Republicans' findings earlier this morning.
Take a listen.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I don't see any evidence of that if the claim is,
and I don't think anybody is demonstrated that the police
chief directed anybody to change numbers when those when the
committee provides me their backup information, which they haven't, and
the committee provided the report to the Washington Post before
they provided it to us. Highly unusual when you're talking
(11:08):
about an audit of numbers.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And John just moments ago, the US Attorney here in
d C, Janine Piro, responded to this report. She put
out a statement on X which essentially says that yes,
these crime stats were manipulated, and the manipulation of that
data shows that President Trump has reduced crime here in
DC a whole lot more than initially thought. She went
on to say that what happened here with the crime
(11:32):
stats does not rise to the level of any criminal
charges or a crime, but that the DC Police Department
has to change their practices moving forward. Well, send it
back to.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
You, yeah, I another Before everything changed in this summer, we
were all hearing, well, the crime is down in DC,
and none of us said anything to peg that toos.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
None of us had any of that to peg it to.
So the DC Police chief manipulating the crime data, artificially
lowering the crime stats, and coerced staff to report low
data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda,
and didn't punish the criminals. She punished the DC police
(12:11):
officers to pursue lesser charges for serious crimes. This is
the Democratic Party and it's exactly why Donald Trump won
the election. It's also exactly why he's fighting crime all
over the country and sending in the National Guard, because
even in cities where Democrats claim crime was dropping, they
(12:32):
were flat out lying and cooking the books.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Now story number two, President.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Trump has made it very clear that he believes that
Fetnolm is a national security threat. It is killing in
essence a plane of Americans every single day. No one
in this country would stand for a plane crash every day,
of innocent Americans crashing to the ground. But that's the
equivalent of what is happening at the hands of narcotra.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Donald Trump is moving forward with an idea of classifying
fetanyl as a weapon of mass destruction. That's right, President
Trump saying on Monday that he was classifying fetanyl as
a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration's campaign
against drug cartels in Latin America. Quote, no bomb does
(13:22):
what this is doing. Two hundred to three hundred thousand
people die every year that we know of. Trump set
at the signing of an executive order that places fetanol
in the same category as nuclear and chemical weapons. In
twenty twenty four, the Sentence for Disease Control and Prevention
report an estimated total of about eighty thousand overdose deaths
(13:43):
in the country, with some forty eight thousand of those
due to synthetic opioids. The executive order set ilicit fetanyl
is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic and
that it threatens our national security and fuel is lawlessness
in our hemisphere and at our borders. The FETANL classification
(14:05):
ties in with the Trump administration's war against alleged narco terraces,
which has included a military campaign targeting drug smuggling boats
with strikes that have left nearly ninety people dead since
early September. While Trump argues that destroying each of the
more than twenty intercepted vessels saves twenty five thousand American lives,
(14:28):
the left is furious that the president would actually go
after boats carrying cocaine and fetnyl and other synthetic opioids
driving the overdose crisis. Leave it to the Democratic Party
to defend the terrorists instead of protecting American citizens. Trump
is a coming to strikes with a massive military build
(14:48):
up as well in the Caribbean that includes the world's
largest aircraft carrier and a slew of other warships, while
a string of US military aircraft have flown along Venezuela's
co in recent weeks.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
While Trump and his administration say the target of the
military build up is drug trafficking, Venezuela as radical narco
terrorist leader Maduro, is accusing Washington of using narcotics smuggling
as a pretext for what he says is regime change
in Caracas. The United States has sought to link the
two issues, and Donald Trump is leading on it, accusing
(15:25):
Maduro of leading the alleged Cartel of the Sons, which
is declared to narco terrorist organization, and now offering a
fifty million dollar reward for information leading to Maduro's capture.
So this is yet again another campaign promise that has
now turned into reality. President Trump said he was going
to do everything he could to keep Americans safe from fetnol,
(15:48):
and this is one step forward in classifying the drug
in a way that now allows him even more authority
to go after those that are selling it, those that
are shipping it, and those that are producing it.
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