The liberal media is at it again — bending over backwards to reinvent a story when it suits their political ends, and Rob Finnerty called them out on a recent segment that should make every patriot furious. Instead of demanding straight answers, they dance around inconvenient facts and play pronunciation games while Americans suffer the consequences of cartel-fueled fentanyl on our streets.
Make no mistake: the Biden and Democratic-aligned press have spent months gaslighting the public about Venezuela while the Trump administration and investigators have publicly labeled Nicolás Maduro as tied to narcotics trafficking and even offered a multimillion-dollar reward in connection with those accusations. Those are not idle claims; federal prosecutors are moving with unprecedented force and there are reports the case could end up in U.S. courts.
Still, facts demand context, and the same outlets that cheer when law enforcement targets enemies of the right suddenly find themselves eager to protect an enemy of theirs when political theater is involved. Independent reporting has made clear that Venezuela generated massive sums from narcotrafficking last year, showing this is not a partisan fairy tale but a national security and public-health crisis that deserves honest coverage.
That said, conservatives must defend the principle of due process even when our blood boils at the thought of cartels and their enablers. When senators and commentators use this issue as a cudgel, or when the press lets politics dictate which crimes are treated as capital offenses and which are winked at, we lose credibility and hand the left the moral high ground they do not deserve. Americans demand law and order, not show trials and double standards.
The international chessboard only makes this mess worse: Beijing and other foreign powers are already leveraging the spectacle to defend Caracas and poke at American resolve, while some international reports and institutions urge caution and rigorous standards of proof. That does not excuse criminality, but it does mean any action we take must be lawful, smart, and squarely in the interest of protecting American families from the fentanyl plague.
So here’s the bottom line for hardworking Americans: demand the truth, demand results, and demand fairness. We should back decisive action against narco-terror networks while refusing to let the press or partisan politicians twist prosecutions into propaganda pieces. If conservatives stand for anything, it’s defending the rule of law — and that means transparency, evidence, and justice, not theater.
