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Barack Obama had a drone campaign, he fired 560 drone strikes, not just terrorists, but killed an American citizen, I'm more or all lucky, did it on the ground, violating sovereignty instead of in international waters, and he regularly did what are called double-tap and even triple-tap strikes. I interviewed David Shedd, who on my podcast, What the Hell is Going on Today, who was the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under Obama, and he said, "We did double-tap strikes all of the time. We usually had a second predator in the sky waiting for the intelligence to clear to see if there were any survivors so we could take them out." So this was a regular practice under the Obama administration because they were going after terrorists. Trump has declared these people, foreign terrorist organizations, he's using the same authority as the Obama administration. Now in terms of how we characterize the fight between the United States and these drug cartels, here's what the DEA administrator, Terry Cole, said earlier today, "This is all about saving American citizens and protecting our national security." All right, so that's basically in a nutshell, it's the 10-second elevator pitch, what this is all about. Democrats say that the Trump administration is desperately trying to make this like, "Oh, it's Al-Qaeda or it's ISIS." Well, I counted up, about 3,100 Americans died at the hands of Al-Qaeda and ISIS. Last year in this country, it was 80,391 people died of overdose deaths in the United States. So is this or is this not a threat to American national security and to Americans? If you're killed by a plane or if you're killed by poison, you're equally dead, right? And these people are poisoning the American people. This is an act of terrorism. President has full legal authority to do this. First of all, he designated them foreign terrorist organizations, then he notified Congress that we were in an armed conflict with those terrorist organizations. Then he had the Office of Legal Counsel prepare a memo setting the parameters for what was legal and what was within the laws of war for carrying out these strikes. And they've been following that, not a single lawyer has objected.
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