Tulsi Gabbard on Trump's Drug Cartel Crackdown and Intelligence Operations

Cartel Brutality and Criminal Operations

• ⚠️ Tulsi Gabbard highlights the extreme brutality of drug cartels, citing the arrest of Sinaloa cartel boss El Platau and CJNG-affiliated trafficker La Diablo.
• 💡 La Diablo's operation involved luring pregnant women, performing illegal C-sections, harvesting organs, and selling newborn babies.
• 🧠 This savagery underscores the lengths cartels go to for money-making operations and narcotics trafficking, terrorizing communities within the United States.

National Intelligence Fusion Cell

• 🎯 President Trump's Homeland Security task force is directing a significant crackdown on drug cartels, with the ODNI playing an integral role.
• 📊 The establishment of a national intelligence fusion cell allows for the collection and real-time sharing of foreign intelligence with federal, state, and local law enforcement.
• ⚡ This collaboration ensures that intelligence directly supports successful operations, leading to the apprehension of dangerous cartel members.

Partnership with Mexican Government

• 🤝 Addressing concerns about partnering with Mexico, Gabbard explains the process of vetting partners through available information and relationship building at lower levels.
• ✅ Operations have been made possible by working with committed Mexican law enforcement partners who are equally concerned about cartel influence.
• ⚖️ These partners are taking significant personal risks by standing up against cartels that have long exerted control across Mexico.

Trump's Seriousness and Messaging

• 📢 The successful operation against El Pato, a Sinaloa cartel plaza boss, is highlighted as significant public messaging from President Trump.
• 💥 This action signals Trump's seriousness in combating cartels, deterring them from resorting to bribery and other illicit tactics.
• 💬 The public messaging reinforces that the administration is not compromising in its efforts against these criminal organizations.