The CIA is reportedly assassinating people inside Mexico. The White House didn't tell Congress. The American people just found out from CNN.
CNN and The New York Times just dropped a bombshell that should be on every front page in the country. According to both outlets, the CIA has been directly participating in targeted assassinations of cartel members inside Mexico, including a March 28 car bombing on a highway outside Mexico City.
Video of the explosion is online. The car burst into flames and crossed into oncoming traffic before crashing to a stop.
The CIA denies it. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum called the reporting "a fiction the size of the universe." Both CNN and The New York Times stand by their stories.
Two independent major news organizations citing multiple sources, against denials from agencies and governments that have every reason to deny it.
Here's what isn't disputed. The Trump administration has designated Mexican cartels as "terrorist organizations." The US military has already launched dozens of airstrikes on boats it claims were carrying drugs in the Caribbean and Pacific, killing over 190 people.
No trials. No evidence shown to the public. Just dead bodies in international waters.
Last month, two CIA agents died in a car crash in Chihuahua coming back from what was reportedly an anti-narcotics operation. Sheinbaum said she had no idea they were there. Mexican and US authorities contradicted each other for days trying to explain it.
Congress did not authorize any of this. The American people were not told. There has been no public debate, no vote, no transparency about what the executive branch is doing inside a sovereign neighboring country.
Imagine Mexico flying drones over Texas and blowing up suspected criminals on I-35. Imagine Mexican intelligence officers planting car bombs in Phoenix. The outrage would be biblical. The president would be calling for war by lunch. But when America does it on the other side of the border, with no oversight and no accountability, it gets buried under three news cycles of Trump tweets.
This is what an undeclared, unauthorized, executive-only foreign war looks like. The CIA carrying out assassinations on foreign soil while Congress sits on its hands and pretends not to notice.
If the reporting is accurate, this is the biggest scandal of the year. Why isn't anyone treating it like one?
This is for every account still asking us to prove that Trump is in the Epstein files. Here it is. The calendar girls parties. Try defending that you pathetic “human beings.”
🚨 BREAKING: Thomas Massie just flipped from YES to HELL NO, and might have just knifed this vote in the spine.
The “Big Beautiful Bill” is now on life support. They need 2 more flips plus all 8 remaining holdouts to cave.
This thing is unraveling in real time.
Sore Loser
With three weeks to go until Election Day, Donald J. Trump stands a reasonable chance of becoming the 47th President of the United States. Despite assassination attempts, impeachments, special counsels, felony convictions and hundreds of millions in civil penalties, most polls show his race against V.P. Kamala Harris is too close to call.
The first time he ran for president in 2016, he was coming off the last season of Celebrity Apprentice. I had a front row seat as a finalist on that final season and marveled at his audacity with his checkered past to seek the highest office in the land. Then, in the blink of an eye, he went from novice to formidable challenger to victorious over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
As President he was a loyal friend, who allowed regular access. My resulting coverage gave him the benefit of most doubts. His presidency was underrated. Throughout his first big scandal in office, the 2017-2019 Mueller Investigation into allegations Trump conspired with Russia to undermine our political process, I stuck with him, deeply suspicious of constant efforts to undermine his Administration.
The last time President Trump and I spoke was Friday, November 13, 2020, when he called me at home. It was ten days after his narrow lost to Joe Biden. He was calling to get my take on the controversies surrounding the election, which appeared to have been decided by a handful of votes in several states. I asked him what he would do if the vote count remained against him. As I reported on Fox News that same morning, Friday the 13th, he told me he was a reasonable man and would do the right thing if that time came.
It never did. Instead, President Trump embarked on an increasingly menacing campaign to discredit the 2020 election. With a motley supporting cast of increasingly fringe characters, he careened from one bizarre theory to the next, offering no meaningful proof, that he had been robbed by the Democrats.
None exists. If you are a Republican, Donald Trump has made a liar of you. He has coaxed and intimidated tens of millions into pretending he was reelected in 2020, and that the election was stolen.
In furtherance of that Big Lie, on January 6, 2021, Trump incited and unleashed the violent attack on the center of democracy, the U.S. Capitol for which he was Impeached. As his followers trashed that sacred space, he was on the phone urging Vice President Mike Pence essentially to overturn the will of the American people. Pence refused to put Trump ahead of the Constitution. Trump stabbed the Constitution in the back.
Maybe you are inclined to vote for the former president anyway, because he says he will cut your taxes or build the border wall or pull out of NATO or put tariffs on China. However, you justify voting for Trump, adopting his big lie about the stolen election makes you a liar.
Better to admit he lost last time but that you don’t care because a Harris presidency would be a disaster, or you admire his defiance in the face of an assassin’s bullet. Just don’t pretend that he got robbed in 2020. That is a lie. Former President Trump is a sore loser who cannot be trusted to honor the Constitution. That is why I am voting for Kamala Harris to be our 47th President.