U.S. Military Targets Cartels in Mexico plus DOJ Emails Reveal Biden’s Flawed Mass Pardons
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
🧨 1. Executive Order on Cartels as Terrorist Organizations
- Date & Action: On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14157, designating international cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).
- Implications: This allows for expanded legal actions such as sanctions, asset freezes, and military operations under anti-terrorism laws.
- Groups Named: Includes major Mexican cartels like Sinaloa, Gulf, Northeast, and United Cartel.
🪖 2. Military Planning Against Cartels
- Reporting Source: Journalist Ken Klippenstein claims secret military orders are being prepared for strikes against cartels in Mexico.
- Military Involvement: NORTHCOM (Northern Command) is tasked with planning operations, potentially unilateral and without Mexican government approval.
- Operational Details:
- Use of CIA and JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command).
- Drone reconnaissance and direct action missions.
- Targeting high-value individuals and cartel infrastructure.
🇲🇽 3. U.S.-Mexico Relations
- Sensitivity: Military action inside Mexico is politically delicate.
- Mexican Response: Mexican officials advocate for joint operations to preserve sovereignty.
- Concerns Raised: Allegations of cartel influence within the Mexican government.
⚖️ 4. Biden’s Clemency Controversy
- Issue: Former President Biden allegedly ignored DOJ warnings about flawed clemency orders signed via autopen.
- Scope: Over 2,500 inmates received clemency, some reportedly violent offenders.
- DOJ Concerns:
- Vague language in warrants.
- Misrepresentation of recipients as “nonviolent drug offenders.”
- Internal emails show DOJ officials were confused and alarmed.
📉 5. Voter Registration Trends
- Study Findings: Democrats lost voter registration ground in all 30 states that track party affiliation.
- Shift: A 4.5 million voter swing toward Republicans between 2020 and 2024.
- Demographic Gains for GOP: Especially among men, younger voters, and Latinos.
- Democratic Response: Speculation about gerrymandering, counting undocumented immigrants in census data, and offering amnesty.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | On January the 20th of this year, President Trump signed an executive order, 14157, |
| 0:11.1 | establishing a process to designate international cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, |
| 0:17.5 | also known as FTOs, or specially designated global terrorists, recognizing them |
| 0:24.2 | as national security threats. |
| 0:26.8 | One month later, on February the 20th, the U.S. Department of State officially designated |
| 0:32.0 | eight Latin American criminal groups, including major Mexican cartels like the Sinaloa cartel, |
| 0:39.3 | the Gulf Cartel, Northeast Cartel, United Cartel, to name a few as terrorist organizations. |
| 0:47.6 | Now, these designations allow for intensify legal actions, including sanctions, asset freezes, and broader enforcement under anti-terrorism |
| 0:57.7 | laws. This is something that the president is saying he's going to start using to his advantage. |
| 1:04.5 | We are now getting reporting from Ken Klippenstein that the military is preparing attacks on Mexican cartels. |
| 1:13.5 | In fact, he's claiming now there are secret orders that are being worked up to directly |
| 1:18.7 | target cartels as the new terrorist frontier. |
| 1:23.3 | His reporting says this. |
| 1:25.2 | Trump administration has now directed the military to prepare for lethal strikes against cartel targets inside Mexico. |
| 1:33.9 | Three military sources are now confirming to them. |
| 1:36.9 | The top secret planning order issued in late spring, they say directs the Northern Command, known as Northcom, to manage the |
| 1:46.0 | attacks which are to be ready by mid-September. |
| 1:49.6 | Though U.S.-Mexico military relations are broad and cooperative, any military action south |
| 1:56.0 | the border is considered extremely sensitive for both Washington and the Mexican federal government and is |
| 2:02.5 | rarely discussed in public. Not only is Donald Trump uniquely focused on transnational |
| 2:09.0 | criminal organizations, the official names for the cartels, having designated them terrorists in |
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