WATCH: GOP Senator Confronts George Stephanopoulos Over Biased Questioning
Published 5 hours ago
on December 7, 2025
By Cullen McCue
While discussing President Donald Trump’s strikes on drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) was involved in a heated exchange with Clinton adviser turned ABC host George Stephanopoulos during Sunday’s episode of “This Week.”
Schmitt answered questions about President Donald Trump’s recent decision to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in 2024. The senator stated that he was unfamiliar with the facts surrounding the case, but dismissed criticism from Democrats as a distraction tactic.
He argued that portraying Trump as “soft on drug smuggling” was “ridiculous,” emphasizing instead the administration’s aggressive stance against narco-terrorists in the nation’s backyard.
“And the fact is these cartels now, because the southern border is closed, they’ve gone to the high seas. So President Trump is acting with his core Article Two powers. No serious legal expert would doubt that the president has authority to blow narco terrorists out of the water who are poisoning a hundred thousand Americans every year,” Schmitt said.
“If you watch the SEC championship game yesterday, the Big Ten championship game, combine those two stadiums with the number of people there, that’s how many people are dying each and every year from the poison that’s coming from these narco terrorists. So the fact is, George, President Trump has been delegated the authority by Congress to designate terrorist organizations. He’s done that. He sent a letter to Congress saying he was going to initiate these strikes. We’ve had regular briefings about it, including from Secretary of State Rubio, including from the high -ranking officials in the Department of Defense. ”
The senator went on to argue that outrage over the strikes from elected Democrats like Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ) — a number of whom have accused the president and War Secretary Pete Hegseth of “war crimes” — is purely politically motivated.
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