Trump’s Cartel War, Media Censorship, NFL preview w/Matt Taibbi & Mark Schlereth

The Big Ben Show

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Politics, News, News Commentary

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Donald Trump has launched a new war on the cartels, escalating U.S. military action after a Venezuelan drug boat linked to the Tren de Aragua cartel was destroyed, killing 11 members. Ben Domenech explains why this marks a dramatic shift in America’s fight against cartel power and what it could mean for the border. Then, NFL legend Mark Schlereth breaks down the biggest football storylines heading into the season — including whether Travis Hunter can truly play both sides of the ball, Trevor Lawrence’s make-or-break year, and why offensive line play is the real backbone of the league. Later, journalist Matt Taibbi joins to unpack his reporting on the Twitter Files, FBI leaks, and the rise of AI-driven censorship. From Russiagate to Silicon Valley’s obsession with transhumanism, Taibbi warns that America is facing a dangerous new phase of surveillance and media manipulation — one that could rival the scandals of Watergate. Join the conversation! Leave your comments, subscribe for more, and rate & review wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.8	All right, boys and girls, we are back with another edition of The Big Ben show.
0:40.8	You can email us, as always, at Big Ben at Fox.com.
0:44.6	You can follow me, Ben Dominic, on X at B. Dominoch.
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0:52.4	an editor, The Spectator, at The Spectator.com. And I want to talk to you today about the latestom.com and to the magazine where I'm an editor, The Spectator, at The Spectator.com.
0:55.4	And I want to talk to you today about the latest activity as it relates to Donald Trump's
1:00.7	war on the cartels. This is a topic that's obviously been in the ether around President
1:06.8	Trump going back to his first term when it was an idea laid forward by the likes of Secretary
1:11.6	of State Mike Pompeo and others, the idea that we were going to elevate these cartels to
1:16.6	being actual terror groups and that we could target them via all these different methods that were
1:22.4	available to us if we did so. That's something that the Trump administration decided to do for real this time around.
1:29.6	And it resulted just yesterday in the targeting and destruction of a boat from Venezuela run by
1:38.0	Trent de Aragua cartel members that was bringing drugs and fentanyl into the United States with footage that you've
1:45.6	probably seen by now blowing the boat out of the water and killing, according to the president,
1:51.3	11 different members of the cartel. This is obviously an escalation. It's something that is
1:57.2	different from what the United States approach has been before, which has been to capture
2:02.5	these boats, to capture the drugs and to put these people on trial through the justice system
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