“Salena, today the president was in the Oval talking about blowing up the drug boat from Venezuela,” Hewitt said. “What did you think about that action?”<\/p>\n

“Based on talking to voters, what I heard was: ‘This is what we voted for,’” Zito said.<\/p>\n

<\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>“These drugs are a weapon of mass destruction. They wipe out families. They wipe out communities. They wipe out towns,” Zito said. “This fentanyl and illegal drug trade has been a hallmark of what President Trump wanted to accomplish.”<\/p>\n<p>Since the strike, Mexico announced that it will cooperate with the State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign-policy\/3792283\/us-mexico-security-cooperation-counter-cartels\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to combat drug cartels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3785703\/california-marijuana-market-cautionary-tale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IN FOCUS: CALIFORNIA’S MARIJUANA MARKET: FROM HIGH HOPES TO ‘COMPLETE FAILURE’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>“The aim is to work together to dismantle transnational organized crime through enhanced cooperation between our respective national security and law enforcement institutions, and judicial authorities,” a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/releases\/office-of-the-spokesperson\/2025\/09\/joint-statement-on-security-cooperation-between-the-united-states-and-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State Department release<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has long campaigned on taking strict action against illicit drugs. Earlier this summer, Trump signed the HALT Fentanyl Act, which <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >permanently scheduled fentanyl-related substances<\/a>, known as fentanyl analogs, as Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salena Zito: Strike on drug boat reflects voters’ wishes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2482315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25246582994149-e1756922818368.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[62573,34951,50590],"class_list":["post-2482312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-drug-vessel","tag-salena-zito","tag-strike-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25246582994149-e1756922818368.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2482312"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482321,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482312\/revisions\/2482321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2482315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2482312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2482312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2482312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}