The White House reacted to the Democrats’ new hoax that drug traffickers who were taken out before they could deliver their deadly poison to American shores were just fishermen, a narrative with a decidedly fishy smell.
Democrats and their media friends smell blood in the water and aren’t backing off their latest attempt to force a change in leadership at the Pentagon, this time by falsely smearing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth as a war criminal.
If the gaslighting campaign seems familiar, that’s because it is. Democrats and their toadies in the media were successful in previously foisting off the scam that human trafficking, wife beating, MS-13 thug Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a loving dad and a “Maryland man,” even though he’s an illegal alien from El Salvador.
Democrats escalate war-crime accusations as White House calls ‘innocent fisherman’ the new ‘Maryland Man’ hoax https://t.co/eiFYg9Wg3p
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“’Innocent fisherman’ is the new ‘Maryland Man’ hoax – just like the media tried to paint MS-13 human smuggler Kilmar Abrego Garcia as ‘father of the year,’ they are now running cover for foreign terrorists smuggling deadly narcotics intended to murder Americans,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly told Fox Digital.
“President Trump is using every element of American power to take on the cartels and stop deadly drugs from flooding into our country – just like he promised on the campaign trail,” Kelly said.
The Democrats were able to generate public sympathy for Abrego Garcia, who was deported to his homeland along with other foreign gang members, where he briefly spent time at the maximum security Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) before leftist lawmakers flew to the country to demand his release.
“Going after survivors in the water, that is clearly not lawful,” declared Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), who has been at the forefront of the attacks on Hegseth and a media fixture in recent weeks as the narrative intensifies.
“You have two individuals in clear distress, without any means of locomotion, with a destroyed vessel, who were killed by the United States,” House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) told reporters earlier this month.
WATCH: The U.S. military destroys another alleged terrorist-operated drug vessel, killing four and marking the 22nd strike under Secretary Hegseth. pic.twitter.com/zq3L7RnpW4
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 5, 2025
President Donald J. Trump has vowed to prevent drugs smuggled by narco-terrorists from reaching American streets, and there have been at least 22 strikes on vessels in the Caribbean since September, which have eliminated the targets, including 86 suspected drug smugglers.
“These narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home – and they will not succeed,” Hegseth wrote in a post to X last month. “The Department will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda. We will continue to track them, map them, hunt them, and kill them.”
“If the reports are true, Pete Hegseth likely committed a war crime when he gave an illegal order that led to the killing of incapacitated survivors of the U.S. strike in the Caribbean,” Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) said in a statement last week.
GOP Senate candidate Morgan Murphy blasted the “utter hypocrisy from a party of theater kids who just don’t care about the lives being lost to the drug trade.”
“For nearly a decade, Democrats lauded President Obama as the ‘Prince of Peace,’ even though his bomb strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia killed hundreds of civilians. None of those countries were at war with the United States or targeted American civilians,” the Alabama Republican told Fox News Digital, referring to the hypocrisy from Democrats over the former president’s droning of civilians.
“But when President Trump pushes his own effort to stop human smugglers and drug dealers who have done untold harm and killed millions of Americans, they want to place the president and secretary of war on a show trial,” Murphy said.
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