Trump Just Got Mexico to Hand Over 26 Cartel Leaders
The biggest cartel bust in years — and the media’s hiding it.
Good Morning, it’s Friday, August 15th, 2025.
While the press was busy feeding you gossip about Trump’s “tone,” he forced Mexico to extradite 26 cartel operatives — including top figures from the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels — straight into U.S. custody. Biden never got anything close to this done, and the media is treating it like it never happened. That’s not journalism. That’s narrative control.
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Trump Just Got Mexico to Hand Over 26 Cartel Leaders
The biggest cartel bust in years — and the media’s hiding it.
While the press chases clickbait about Trump’s tone, the White House just pulled off a law-and-order victory Biden never came close to touching. Mexico — under direct pressure from Trump — has extradited 26 cartel operatives, including key players from the Jalisco New Generation and Sinaloa cartels. You’d think that would be front-page news. You’d be wrong.
Trump pushed Mexico’s left-wing President Claudia Sheinbaum into a corner: either help dismantle the cartels or face tariffs and potential U.S. military operations. On Tuesday, she blinked — handing over 26 cartel members wanted in the U.S., on top of the 29 already shipped in February. The DOJ now has some of the most dangerous drug traffickers on American soil, ready to face justice.
This is the kind of high-stakes cooperation the media swore would never happen when Trump vowed to “destroy the cartels” in 2024. Back then, CNN and the Washington Post called it “unrealistic,” “reckless,” and “dangerous.” But now that it’s happening, the headlines are missing — buried under culture-war fluff and campaign horse race polls.
The U.S. Ambassador to Mexico called the transfer “another example of what’s possible when two governments unite against violence and impunity.” But you won’t hear that on MSNBC, because it undercuts the four-year narrative that Trump’s policies would alienate Mexico. The truth is, the threat of tariffs and military action forced Sheinbaum’s hand — and it’s working.
The deeper reality is this: fentanyl deaths are still spiking, and dismantling cartel networks is a matter of national survival. Trump is delivering tangible wins on the border and drug war while the legacy press pretends nothing happened. That’s not journalism — it’s narrative protection.
Bottom Line: Twenty-six cartel members are now in U.S. custody because Trump used hard leverage, not empty speeches. If Biden had pulled this off, the media would be throwing him a parade. Instead, they’re running cover for the cartels by ignoring the story entirely.
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Zelensky Scrambles as Trump Moves to Cut Ukraine’s Cash Flow
The war machine’s gravy train is about to hit a wall.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spent the weekend burning up the phone lines — 15-plus calls to world leaders and financial power players — as news broke that he might be left out of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska this Friday. The reason for his panic isn’t hard to see: peace talks without Ukraine mean the end of more than $100 billion in no-strings U.S. aid and the cozy war economy that’s grown around it.
Trump has made it clear — America is “done with the funding of the Ukraine war business.” Vice President JD Vance was even blunter in London: “If you care so much about this conflict, you should be willing to play a direct and more substantial role” — meaning Europe can keep buying American weapons, but U.S. taxpayers aren’t footing the bill anymore. That’s a direct threat to the network of defense contractors, NGOs, and political fixers who’ve been cashing in on endless war.
Zelensky’s public rejection of Trump’s floated “territory swap” deal masks the deeper fear in Kiev and Brussels: not that Ukraine will lose land, but that the pipeline of Western cash will dry up overnight. For three years, the U.S. has underwritten not just Ukraine’s defense, but its entire wartime economy, with virtually zero accountability. Peace would collapse that structure instantly — and expose where the money really went.
Bottom Line: Zelensky isn’t scrambling to stop a bad peace deal — he’s scrambling to stop the end of the biggest money laundering operation in modern history. The war machine is terrified, and for the first time, it has a president in Washington who’s not on the payroll.
500 Rounds Fired at the CDC — And Nobody Else Got Hit
Either this is the worst shooter in history, or the official story doesn’t add up.
Patrick Joseph White broke into his father’s gun safe, stole five firearms — rifles, a shotgun, and a handgun — and unloaded nearly 500 rounds in an attack targeting the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters. Around 200 rounds slammed into six CDC buildings. A police officer responding to the scene was killed. Yet somehow, in a complex with thousands of employees, not one CDC worker was hit.
That’s not just luck — that’s lottery-winner levels of statistical absurdity. A military-level firefight and the only casualty besides the shooter was a cop outside? And the details from officials aren’t making things clearer. The CDC’s own meeting on the incident lasted 17 minutes, offered no new information, disabled questions, and left employees fuming in private chats. Staff still don’t know how the shooter tried to enter campus, why some people never got a security alert, or why there was no order to shelter in place.
White reportedly left writings critical of Covid vaccines, but beyond that, the narrative is thin — and the investigation is already leaning into “mental health” explanations. That’s convenient, but it dodges the obvious question: what really happened in those chaotic minutes, and why is the agency keeping the tightest lid possible on the details?
Bottom Line: 500 rounds. One cop dead. No other casualties. If this were any other government target, the media would be demanding answers. Here, they’re just running interference.
Newsom Just Confessed to Election Rigging on Camera
The California governor is openly weaponizing redistricting to take down Trump.
At a Los Angeles rally, Gavin Newsom didn’t even bother with the usual “protecting democracy” spin — he flat-out bragged that California’s new congressional maps will “neuter and neutralize” Republican gains in Texas and “end the Trump presidency.” His “Election Rigging Response Act” would let Democrats sidestep the state’s independent redistricting commission, redraw the lines, and lock in a House majority by 2026.
This isn’t governance. This is a sitting governor admitting he’ll manipulate district maps to predetermine election outcomes. It’s exactly what conservatives have warned about for years — the left doesn’t win through better ideas, they win by rigging the game. Newsom even mocked Trump in all-caps social media posts promising “MORE ‘BEAUTIFUL MAPS’… THAT WILL BE DEVASTATING FOR MAGA.”
The timing isn’t accidental. Texas Republicans, with Trump’s backing, are pushing mid-decade redistricting that could net them five House seats. Newsom’s plan is the blue-state counterstrike, wrapped in moral language but rooted in pure power politics. And while Texas only needs a GOP-controlled legislature to pass maps, California’s scheme requires legislative approval and a ballot measure this November — meaning Democrats are racing the clock.
Bottom Line: Newsom just said the quiet part out loud — Democrats will blow up their own “independent” systems the second they threaten to cost them power. This isn’t about fair maps. It’s about manufacturing outcomes and calling it democracy.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton goes quiet as Trump targets DC – For decades, Norton was DC’s attack dog in Congress. Now, as Trump launches the most aggressive federal intervention in DC governance in 30 years, she’s keeping her head down. When the swamp’s loudest defenders go silent, it’s because they know what’s coming.
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P.S. Here’s my take on Trump’s Mexico cartel extradition: this is what America First foreign policy looks like when it’s backed by real leverage instead of State Department cocktail parties. Biden never got it. The media still doesn’t get it. What do you think — should Trump keep pushing Mexico with tariffs and military pressure until the cartels collapse? Hit reply and let me know.
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