Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-RI) has once again proven why the radical left can’t be trusted to secure our borders or protect American lives from the fentanyl-fueled invasion at our southern flank.
During a softball interview on CNN with Dana Bash, Reed shamelessly downplayed the ruthless narco-terrorists poisoning our communities, insisting they’re just poor folks “trying to make money.”
The bombshell came amid growing scrutiny over the administration’s Operation Southern Spear, a no-holds-barred campaign that’s already obliterated multiple narco-boats loaded with deadly drugs bound for American streets.
Just last month, at the direction of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization.
Intelligence confirmed that the vessel was involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics. Three male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed. The vessel was trafficking narcotics in the Eastern Pacific and was struck in international waters,” US South Com said in an X post.
But leave it to a career Democrat like Reed to spit in the face of our brave troops and the families shattered by the overdose epidemic.
When pressed by Bash on the legality and necessity of these strikes, strikes that are finally treating drug runners like the terrorists they are, Reed launched into a weepy sob story about “demand” in America and how the lowly smugglers are just hapless pawns.
“One of the factors that drives use in the United States is demand. Most narco traffickers are not in those boats. They pay people to do that. Usually, people are not significantly involved with narco traders. It’s the way they make money,” Reed said.
He added, “And rather than doing that, we should spend a lot more resources on law enforcement in the United States. They’re actually cutting that back in terms of federal intervention and also medical care and therapy that will get people off drugs and prevent them from dying because of drug addiction.”
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Democrat Jack Reed dismisses criminals smuggling illegal drugs into the U.S. as not “narco-terrorists,” just people trying to make money.
“Usually, people are not significantly involved…It’s the way they make money.” pic.twitter.com/8xIrMG1mtn
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