President Donald Trump’s military strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean have come under fire from Congressional Democrats… but a resurfaced 1989 video shows then-Senator Joe Biden pushing for the president to take the same approach against narco-terrorists.
“Let’s go after the drug lords where they live with an international strike force,” Biden said in a February 7, 1989 Senate hearing on crime and drugs. “There must be no safe haven for these narco-terrorists and they must know it.”
The resurfaced clip went viral this week.
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1989. Joe Biden delivers a televised message from the Democrat party, calling on then President Bush to do more to stop the flow of drugs into the country.
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The United States military has destroyed at least 22 vessels since early September, killing approximately 87 terrorists in what the Trump administration says is an effort to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the country.
President Trump announced the first strike on September 2 in a Truth Social post.
“Earlier this morning, on my Orders, U.S. Military Forces conducted a kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narcoterrorists,” he wrote. The strike “occurred while the terrorists were at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States. The strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action.”
Despite former President Joe Biden himself advocating for similar action, the strikes have drawn intense criticism from Democratic lawmakers.
“Clearly, in my view, very likely a war crime was committed here,” Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen said. “We don’t use our military to help intervene when it comes to drug running, and what the Trump administration has done is manufactured cause for conflict with respect to going after drug boats and engaging in extrajudicial killing when the real aim is clearly regime change in Venezuela.”
A White House spokesperson responded to the Democratic criticism.
“It’s pathetic that these Democrats care more about running cover for foreign drug smugglers and illegal immigrants seeking taxpayer-funded health care than paying federal workers and protecting American citizens from deadly narcotics,” according to Axios.
The resurfaced Biden clip from 1989 is a perfect illustration of this hypocrisy.
It may not end there. Trump told reporters during a Cabinet meeting on December 2 that the military may soon begin striking targets inside Venezuela.
“We’re going to start doing those strikes on land, too,” he said. “We know where they live. We know where the bad ones live, and we’re going to start that very soon.”