In an exclusive interview with The Floridian, Representative Kat Cammack (R-FL) discussed President Donald Trump's military actions against the drug cartels, blasting Democratic opposition while also saying Congress needs to be involved if escalation is necessary.
Representative Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) previously called Democrats "hypocritical" for opposing Trump's drone strikes while remaining silent about President Barack Obama's use of the same tactic.
Rep. Cammack echoed the sentiment, commenting, "What is so crazy to me is, I never thought that the left would associate their platform with pro-crime, pro-gang, pro-cartel, and that is what they are doing now." "They are literally going to bat for the cartels, yet they have nothing to say about the 100,000 Americans that were being poisoned to death every single year from fentanyl coming across our borders. Now we are actually doing something about it, and they are up in arms about it," she added.
Not only did she suggest Democrats are angry that President Trump is "fixing the problem that they created," but she also noted that, at the height of the fentanyl crisis, 300 Americans were dying from fentanyl every day.
"If that had been an airplane going down every single day, and 300 passengers every single day were being killed, by the end of the week, the FAA would have grounded all flights, and there would have been a task force established to figure out why planes were dropping out of the sky," Rep. Cammack explained.
When questioned about her support over President Trump's actions, and if she would support the potential targeting of cartel operations within Venezuela, she cited that she is "very much an Article I Constitutionalist.".
"You need to come to Congress for an authorization of war, and I think that is when every member needs to get the briefing, you need to go into the skiff; you need to have an actual war plan and a termination plan. We are very, very good at starting wars. We are very, very sh*tty at getting out of them," she responded.
