At a White House event Thursday, RealClearPolitics reporter Phil Wegmann asked President Trump whether he would seek a formal declaration of war against the drug cartels the U.S. Navy has been striking in the Caribbean.
Trump said he did not plan to ask for a declaration, adding bluntly that U.S. forces would “kill” those bringing drugs into the country.
RCP’s Phil Wegmann asked President Trump during a White House event on Thursday if he would consider requesting a formal declaration of war against the drug cartels that the U.S. Navy is currently targeting and destroying in the Caribbean.
PHIL WEGMANN, REALCLEARPOLITICS: A moment ago, you said that if Secretary Hegseth went to Congress and briefed them on the operation against these–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: No, we will go.
PHIL WEGMANN, REALCLEARPOLITICS: And it would be difficult for them to object–
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We will go. I don’t see any laws preventing it—no reason not to. They’ll always complain we should have gone. So we’ll go. Let’s go. We will tell them what we will do, and I think they will like it, except for the radical left lunatics.
PHIL WEGMANN, REALCLEARPOLITICS: If you are declaring war against these cartels and Congress is likely to approve of that process, why not just ask for a declaration of war?
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I don’t think we will necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we are just gonna kill people who are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re gonna kill them. They’re gonna be, like, dead.
Leave a Reply