Pirro Says What Trump’s Cartel Crackdown Intercepted Was Big Enough to Fill Two Dozen 18-Wheelers

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said on Fox News Thursday that federal authorities seized one of the largest drug precursor shipments ever headed for the Sinaloa Cartel.

The Trump administration ramped up its cartel crackdown after President Donald Trump authorized military strikes Tuesday, with the latest operation off Venezuela’s coast killing 11 alleged Tren de Aragua members. In an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Pirro said her office — working with Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection, the FBI, and the DEA — intercepted 1,300 barrels of methamphetamine precursors shipped from Shanghai and bound for Mexico.

“We intercepted on the high seas, brought these 1,300 barrels, enough to fill twenty-four 18-wheelers,” Pirro told host Jesse Watters. “We brought them into the Port of Houston. Now, unfortunately, every day there are millions of dollars made by these cartels.”

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