White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said Monday on “The Ingraham Angle” that corporate media is more concerned with platforming cartel members than with Americans dying from the cartels’ drugs.
CNN on Friday aired an interview with a member of the Sinaloa Cartel, questioning him about President Donald Trump’s crackdown on the cartel and drug trafficking into the U.S. After playing a clip of the interview, Fox host Laura Ingraham asked Miller for his reaction, calling out how the outlet was willing to give the cartel member “a platform in the American media.”
“Yes, the American press is trying to see how it hurts cartel members’ feelings when Donald Trump has accurately portrayed them as foreign terrorist enemies of the United States,” Miller said. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands, have been killed by the fentanyl that these monsters have trafficked into our country.”
“Lacing our drugs with this lethal poison that many teenagers and many young people in this country don’t even realize that they’re ingesting, and they drop dead, and their parents don’t even know what happened,” Miller added.
On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order designating cartels as terrorist organizations, saying that they have been “flooding the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and vicious gangs.” By March, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 against the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and allowed for the arrest of its members within the U.S.
“These same cartels, by the way, they’ll wage assassination campaigns against their opponents. They use fear, violence, torture and intimidation to get their way that are responsible for all the illegal immigration into this country,” Miller said. “In other words, everyone who crosses that border is smuggled by a cartel or a cartel associate, and they’re responsible for the human trafficking and child trafficking that has plagued the Western Hemisphere.”
“But it’s President Trump, of course, who they are now attacking, the press is attacking, for shutting all of that down, for ending child trafficking, ending human trafficking, for cutting the number of drugs dramatically that are entering this country, and, of course, for achieving the most secure border in American history,” Miller said.
During the week observing Trump’s first 100 days in office, the White House released a fact sheet saying daily border encounters fell by 93%. Migrant crossings were down 99.99% compared to the Biden-Harris administration’s peak daily average of 15,000 encounters.
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