After fawning for weeks over so-called "Maryland man" Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who turned out to be a reputed MS-13 gang member and human trafficker who beat his wife, Democrats and their media outlets keep hitching their wagon to the wrong star.
CNN's Isobel Yeung recently traveled to Sinaloa, Mexico to interview a fentanyl manufacturer and tour a drug lab. She wanted to find out how the cartel member feels about being designated a terrorist.
"According to the Trump administration, you are a terrorist. The cartels have been labeled a foreign terrorist organization. What do you make of that?" she asked the gang member, who only agreed to meet if CNN kept his identity and location hidden.
He offered his respect to President Trump. "According to him, he's looking out for his people," the gang member noted. "The problem is that the consumers are [in the United States.]"
"If there aren't any consumers, we would stop," he declared. "The situation is ugly, but we have to eat."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has called it a puff piece.
"It was a softball interview, giving a platform to a notorious drug cartel that has killed American citizens," she told Fox News. "I thought it was quite despicable."
Nick Kangadis of mrcTV says the mainstream media has reflexively taken the opposite side of almost every issue on which President Trump has opined.
"It's pretty on brand for CNN to give a platform to a terrorist, wondering how his fentanyl business that kills 80,000 - 100,000 Americans every year is affected, but they give little to no time to talk to families of people killed by illegals, particularly gang or cartel members," Kangadis observes.
"This is just another reason why the trust in the legacy media is at an all-time low amongst the American public," Leavitt said.
