Eric Schmitt giving his thoughts on the narcoterrorism boats being blown up by President Trump’s Administration
Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was on ABC News’ This Week with George Stephanopoulos earlier Sunday morning, where he was asked about his thoughts on President Trump’s military unit that has been striking boats that contained drug traffickers. These drug traffickers have been seen by the President and his cabinet members and colleagues as trying to bring Fentanyl into the United States and hurt American citizens.
Stephanopoulos first asked Schmitt if he supports President Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president, to which Schmitt said that most of the controversy surrounding the pardon of the former foreign leader was a one-sided controversy and wasn’t important to where he wanted to answer the question.
Schmitt would expand on this point further when he said, “Well, I’m curious about your pushback on that particular point. With your previous guest, you had zero pushback because he was giving the Democrat talking points like you spew every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so bad. However, to make the point, what I’m saying is that you’re trying to divert attention from what the American people actually support.”
Schmitt would follow up by talking about how a study he saw said that over 75 percent of Americans support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water in the Caribbean who are trying to poison Americans.
Once he was done answering the first question, Stephanopoulos was quick to try to ask his real first question again about whether he supported the pardon of the Honduran man and former leader.
Schmitt restated his previous point as he said, “George, as I said, what we’re talking about here are the narco-terrorists poisoning Americans. This attempt to try to focus on a pardon is classic because you’ve lost the debate now on the narco-terrorist question. Because at the beginning of the week, you had Democrats actually on camera saying you should disobey orders. That’s what Senator Kelly and Slotkin were saying: you should disobey orders. And then they went so far as to say that if you do — if you don’t do that, you might get prosecuted down the road.”
Schmitt talked about when he read the Inspector General of the Department of Defense that the report on a possible threat to national security, with the bombings that the Inspector saw the Trump Administration do was a nothingburger.
He would compare the previous Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who worked with the Biden Administration with the current Trump administration by talking about how Democrats didn’t get worried about these national security problems when Austin was getting a medical procedure without telling former President Biden or his other cabinet members.
“I think the bigger concern that you didn’t have a hue and cry about from the Democrats was when Secretary Lloyd Austin went in for a medical procedure, was incapacitated, and didn’t tell the president. Literally, we had a secretary of defense who wasn’t on duty, and nobody knew about it. Like that’s a real problem.”, said Schmitt