Senator Schmitt Backs Trump Administration’s Efforts to Combat Narco-terrorists

Blasts Democrats’ Call for Servicemembers to Break Chain of Command

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) joined Fox News’ Ingraham Angle to support President Trump and Secretary Hegseth’s efforts to target narco-terrorists and blasts Democrats’ for urging servicemembers to break the chain of command.

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Senator Schmitt Backs Trump Admin’s Efforts to Go After Narco-terrorists:

“There’s always going to be oversight [by Congress]. But let’s be clear: President Trump was acting within his core Article II [Constitutional] powers. [Secretary] Pete Hegseth is doing a good job. These narco-terrorists are poisoning 100,000 Americans every year. There was nothing wrong here. The [Trump administration] is clearly justified in the action. What’s really happening here, though, is the Democrats never wanted Pete Hegseth [to be Secretary] in the first place. President Trump won. He got his cabinet in. They’ve been trying to undermine him ever since. It’s some bogus story, after bogus story, and here we are now. This sounds a lot like Russiagate. It sounds a lot like the control operation they had under the censorship [regime]. The legacy media is carrying their water on this. The fact of the matter is — and I think this is important, Laura — the reality is, you listen to what that video was about, which was ‘disobey orders because we don’t like Trump’. Effectively, not just some online troll, but a sitting United States Senator, basically said to service men and women, ‘you could be prosecuted too’. This is not the language of political debate. This is not like ‘we’ll win the next election’. This is the language of a color revolution. I think Republicans need to understand what this is all about. [Democrats] are hellbent on power and control, will do anything for it. The rules? They don’t think apply to them at all. So, Pete Hegseth is totally in the clear here. It’s obvious President Trump is within his core Article II powers. The Democrats are the ones right now that are fomenting this, and it’s just fake outrage. It’s another B.S. line, because they don’t like Pete Hegseth.”

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“Well, I don’t think [Chairman Wicker] indicated there’s going to be an investigation. This is a fantasy from the Democrats and their legacy media allies. I don’t think that’s going to happen. It shouldn’t happen. We should be informed about what’s happening — clearly, it’s the Armed Services Committee. We have oversight. But nobody is, I don’t think, saying right now that what Pete Hegseth did was wrong. The media is peddling this lie. The Democrats want to convince the American people this is a new scandal. It’s ridiculous, so I don’t think this is going to go any further. I’m pretty confident in that. But we’ll see what happens. Republicans need to understand what time it is. The Democrats are hell bent on power. We shouldn’t bend the knee to this at all.”

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