Trump’s White House is naming fentanyl as a chemical weapon to justify the indiscriminate “drug boat” bombings they’ve been carrying out in the Caribbean, which have killed 80 people to date.
A classified Justice Department memo reported on by The Wall Street Journal sheds light on the administration’s multiple legal arguments to justify the strikes—including that drug cartels are terrorist organizations and that their smuggling efforts are specifically meant to destabilize the U.S. and its citizens. Two people familiar with the memo shared its contents.
The brief mentions fentanyl multiple times as a justification for the strikes, even as the bulk of the drug is known to come over land from Mexico. There is no evidence that Venezuela, where one of the newly classified terrorist organizations is based, is making and moving fentanyl.
“Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wrote on X Thursday. “The Western Hemisphere is America’s neighborhood – and we will protect it.”
Democrats and experts remain thoroughly unconvinced.
“Much of it is geared toward making a financial argument about what the drugs are providing in terms of monetary resources,” to the so-called “terrorist” cartels, New Jersey Senator Andy Kim told the Journal. “But they are trying to use that now to create a lethal kinetic justification, which is not what that designation is for and has never been done before.”
“It is an incredible stretch,” said former Trump and Obama State Department legal adviser Brian Finucane.
The memo also refers to the president’s powers under Article II of the Constitution, which allows him to control military action for up to two months before congressional approval is necessary—something even Republicans have taken issue with.
“The president had the right to take initial actions, but should seek Congressional authorization for continued strikes,” Representative and House Armed Services Committee member Don Bacon said.
It certainly seems that the Trump administration knows they don’t have standing to just keep blowing up “drug boats” instead of stopping, boarding, and arresting these alleged “narco terrorists.” So instead they have to engineer claims in secret memos of chemical warfare and terrorism to avoid any congressional resistance.
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