Peter Navarro says Canada has been taken over by the Cartels

07 March 2025, 18:24

Magine Enigam

quote:
Originally posted by Mike Mitchell:
Is it any wonder that trump's trade policies are goofy when you have a senior trade advisor that would say something as stupid as that?

https://thehill.com/homenews/a...-by-mexican-cartels/

From the article:

Navarro said, discussing drug flow into the U.S. on Fox News’s “Special Report” with anchor Bret Baier.

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Fox News willingly gives the Trump surrogate AHs a platform and a bull horn. They profit from the chaos, propaganda at the expense of the nation. They just don't care.

With advisors like Navarro and Miller, etc., Trump has all sorts of unhinged legal advice to throw and see what sticks.

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There is a lot more to the story, but you have to look past and outside Fox News to get it.

https://open.substack.com/pub/...=post&utm_medium=web

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Also:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...19db474ba1ed22&ei=13

'Very bold': Expert warns Trump found 'incredibly powerful' tool to quash legal resistance
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Degenerate 1:1
1 Then Trump said, "Let Us re-make a Nation in MY Image, after My likeness, to rule over everything in the Nation, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it".

Degenerate 1:2
2 Then Trump said, "Vengeance is mine, I will repay on your behalf."

Degenerate 1:3
3 "My Kingdom come, My will be done."

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07 March 2025, 19:36

Tumbleweed

And that’s how an autocrat sidesteps his own elected government…
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With the former, as it applies to Canada, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border is miniscule, making up just 0.2 percent of all border fentanyl seizures.

Trump knows he has to set out some justification—one that rises to the level of a “national emergency”—in order to increase tariffs so suddenly and harshly on friendly states such as Canada and Mexico. Otherwise, the tariffs don’t fit within the power delegated to him by Congress.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the opening salvo of tariffs, announced in February before being suspended for 30 days, led with a claim of a “national emergency” under the IEEPA:

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The order goes on to say that the tariffs will remain in place “[u]ntil the crisis is eliminated.” In other words, Trump is going to continue to insist that we’re still in a crisis of fentanyl overdoses due to lax border security, even from the few pounds coming over the Canadian border, in order to maintain his legal authority to levy the tariffs.

07 March 2025, 21:46

Saeed

quote:
Originally posted by Tumbleweed:
And that’s how an autocrat sidesteps his own elected government…
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With the former, as it applies to Canada, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border is miniscule, making up just 0.2 percent of all border fentanyl seizures.

Trump knows he has to set out some justification—one that rises to the level of a “national emergency”—in order to increase tariffs so suddenly and harshly on friendly states such as Canada and Mexico. Otherwise, the tariffs don’t fit within the power delegated to him by Congress.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the opening salvo of tariffs, announced in February before being suspended for 30 days, led with a claim of a “national emergency” under the IEEPA:

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The order goes on to say that the tariffs will remain in place “[u]ntil the crisis is eliminated.” In other words, Trump is going to continue to insist that we’re still in a crisis of fentanyl overdoses due to lax border security, even from the few pounds coming over the Canadian border, in order to maintain his legal authority to levy the tariffs.

Drugs are a choice!

Educate people to avoid them.

End of drugs!

07 March 2025, 21:52

Mike Mitchell

quote:
Originally posted by Tumbleweed:
And that’s how an autocrat sidesteps his own elected government…
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With the former, as it applies to Canada, the amount of fentanyl seized at the border is miniscule, making up just 0.2 percent of all border fentanyl seizures.

Trump knows he has to set out some justification—one that rises to the level of a “national emergency”—in order to increase tariffs so suddenly and harshly on friendly states such as Canada and Mexico. Otherwise, the tariffs don’t fit within the power delegated to him by Congress.

It should come as no surprise, then, that the opening salvo of tariffs, announced in February before being suspended for 30 days, led with a claim of a “national emergency” under the IEEPA:

ADDRESSING AN EMERGENCY SITUATION: The extraordinary threat posed by illegal aliens and drugs, including deadly fentanyl, constitutes a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).

The order goes on to say that the tariffs will remain in place “[u]ntil the crisis is eliminated.” In other words, Trump is going to continue to insist that we’re still in a crisis of fentanyl overdoses due to lax border security, even from the few pounds coming over the Canadian border, in order to maintain his legal authority to levy the tariffs.

Vast majority of fentanyl comes from Mexico, not Canada. As usual, trump is an idiot. 21,000 lbs seized at US/Mexico border, 43 lbs seized at US Canadian border last year. And most of it passes through US entry points hidden in cars and trucks.