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Senator Eric Schmitt demolished a clueless reporter on Tuesday after she tried to equate narco-terrorist drug-running vessels to harmless “fishing boats.”  This is the latest tactic by the Democrats trying to smear an administration that is standing up and protecting Americans.  Call high speed vessels loaded with drugs “fishing boats.”  Scream that war crimes are being committed because this administration is defending America from narco-terrorists.

Sen. Schmitt did not play nice with this idiot posing as a journalist.  While Democrats obsess over protecting cartel operatives, Schmitt made clear the only victims are American families burying loved ones poisoned by fentanyl.

Here’s the exchange:

Reporter:
If you can seize a tanker without killing anyone, shouldn’t that… If you can seize an oil tanker without killing anyone, shouldn’t that have been the way that these fishing boats were also stopped?

Eric Schmitt:
Fishing boats? What is a fishing boat? The drug runners?

Reporter:
The drug runners.

Eric Schmitt:
Those aren’t fishing boats.

Reporter:
Yeah, but…

Eric Schmitt:
Those aren’t fishing boats.

Reporter:
If you can seize a vessel without violence—

Eric Schmitt:
Okay. Well, let’s talk about Article II authority. The President, the Commander in Chief, has identified and designated terrorist organizations—cartels who run drugs that kill 100,000 Americans a year.

There’s no legal question that he has the authority to blow those boats out of the water, and they will continue.

This, however—these were economic sanctions by the President, as delegated by Congress.

Those were enforced by civil authorities with the aid of the U.S. Navy. We’re talking about two very different things.

But if you’re asking me if I have sympathy for narco-terrorists killing Americans, whose boats are carrying the drugs that kill Americans, I don’t. I have sympathy for my neighbors in Missouri who’ve been poisoned, who die.

We finally have a President who cares about them more than Democrats care about going down to El Salvador to drink margaritas with terrorists. That’s how I feel about it.

This idiot who asked the question is as much of a journalist as the drug runners are fishermen.

Let’s be reminded that the Maritime Drug Enforcement Act of 1986 authorized the military to fire on drug smuggling boats.  The vote was 392-16 in the House and 97-2 in the Senate.  And yes, Chuck Schumer voted for it.