All Epstein files might still not get released. recall that Trump has already alternately claimed there was nothing, that whatever got released was all of it, even as we know what the DoJ has released is a tiny, redacted portion of a massive amount of material. Trump will likely be selective.
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There will be distractions including but not limited to destabilizing the Venezuelan government, because it continues to be about oil. 83 people have been killed in extrajudicial action even as apparently Venezuela is in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Deploying warships off the coast of Venezuela will have minimal impact on the fentanyl trade.
Fentanyl enters the US from Mexico and even from Canada – but Venezuela doesn’t feature in US threat assessments for fentanyl.
Military action against the Cartel of the Suns will also be largely ineffectual, as this group exists in name only.
Research has found this isn’t an actual cartel – rather, the name describes a loose network of competing drug-trafficking networks within the Venezuelan state. Figures in the government certainly have ties to the illicit drug trade, but they are not organised in a cartel.
In Mexico, however, the cartels do exist – albeit not as imagined by the US government.
Given the US has invaded and seized territory from Mexico in the past, US military intervention has minimal prospect of support from Mexican governments.
Current President Claudia Sheinbaum has shown a willingness to accommodate the Trump government on matters of fentanyl trafficking. She has deployed thousands of members of the National Guard to police the border and major trafficking centres, such as the state of Sinaloa.
The Mexican government has also made two mass extraditions of captured crime bosses to the US. As with the capture of Zambada by the Biden government, this is likely to be used as evidence the US is winning the battle against fentanyl.
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In CNN’s latest poll, just 20% of Latinos approved of his job performance, down from 41% in February. This 21-point drop far outpaces the 4- and 9-point drops among Black and White Americans and the 10-point drop in his approval rating overall.
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Stephanie Miller will likely never be invited on Fox News again.
Gift link to NYT article about the corruption of DOJ. One former insider says “I wouldn’t even call it the Justice Department anymore. It’s become Trump’s personal law firm. … [T]he American people should be enraged.” https://t.co/QATgk0iChC
