Trump DHS Gets Caught as Cartel Stunt Backfires in Their Face

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Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security was just caught in the act.

They were caught red-handed, engaging in one of the most heinous acts of defamation of character.

This individual, who they defamed, has a massive, massive defamation lawsuit.

And this is part of the Trump regime trying to justify its claims that Mexican cartels have put out $50,000 bounties on the heads of ICE agents, a claim that Mexico's president, Claudius Scheinbaum, absolutely denies.

Scheinbaum says that she was trying to get information from the Trump regime about it.

The regime refuses to provide even Scheinbaum with any information.

Seems that the Trump regime is just making it up.

I'll give you the data point of one of the things they're doing to make it up.

It is a heinous act of defamation.

So the official Department of Homeland Security account posted this video.

I'm not going to play the video because it has a rap song in the background.

It would trigger a copyright issue if I played it on this YouTube channel.

But here is what the post says.

F around and find out, the Department of Homeland Security account says, if you threaten or lay hands on our law enforcement officers, we will hunt you down and you will find out real quick.

We'll see you cowards soon.

And the video that they post purports to be a group of young African-American males.

And they're putting masks over their face.

And the idea of this video and the way it's being portrayed is that they have a menacing look at the camera.

And then the text on the video reads, ICE, we're on the way.

Word in the streets, Cartel put a 50,000 bounty on y'all.

And the Department of Homeland Security says, we will hunt you down referring to these young African-American males in this video.

That's not what the video actually ever said.

You see, the video was posted back in mid-June,

and the video was posted in response to the United States taking military action against Iran.

There was a trend going on about people in different communities standing up to Iran and answering the call by the United States government patriotically to defend the country from from Iran.

There was a whole kind of trend like Iran, we're coming for you at the time when those B-2 bombers attacked Iran, never actually destroyed the nuclear arsenal there.

Iran still has the nuclear weapons, a whole other topic that we could talk about at another time.

But the actual true video that was posted by this individual whose account was Mr.

Florida J H I T

said,

you've seen what we can do.

Don't say something that you can't can't finish, Iran.

We already united, we all stand.

American flag, we want all the smoke.

And then the same individual posted another video a day earlier that says, you can say something that you can't finish.

Iran, we're on the way.

And it was like a fun TikTok trend that young people were doing.

And it actually shows that this young group of people over here who are in this video were saying that they wanted to stand up for the United States.

It didn't mention ICE.

It didn't talk about a bounty or anything.

So what happened was the Department of Homeland Security completely manipulated the video, altered the video to try to frame and set up these young African-American males to make it appear that they wanted to take a $50,000 bounty to go after ICE agents.

So then ICE says, we're hunting you down, young African-American males.

We're hunting you down.

And this has serious repercussions on the lives of these individuals right here.

The individual who made the post is talking about how serious this is getting and how the entire government now seems like they're coming after him and who the hell altered these images and who manipulated these images.

It's crazy.

So the individual who made the video, the young man responded, as this account by Danny Glover says, Department of Homeland Security is the real clear and present threat to the American people.

With all the tech and surveillance tools at their disposal, they couldn't tell this video was edited.

Incompetent, racist, dangerous.

So here's the young man explaining what happened.

He goes, I don't even know what this was.

That wasn't the video I made.

The video I did was talking about Iran, not talking about ICE at all.

Why would the government manipulate this?

this and then subsequently this individual has been posting on his Instagram stories like this is getting serious serious y'all like people are coming after me now as a result of what the government is doing attaching me to cartels what a sick thing that this government that this regime did here's the young man responding here play this clip so I'm getting these mad messages from my DMs and social media and on my comments and I randomly get a text message talking about a recent video that was posted in my account.

I was like, what are y'all talking about?

By the way, I'm sick.

So if I sound weird, yeah, I get threats daily on IG and everywhere all over my social media all of a sudden.

Due to an old video I posted months ago about Iran.

Iran, that was not to be a threat.

It was literally a joke, bruh.

Like, seriously, it's just content.

Anyways, once I seen that video that was posted in my account, then I was like, what the fuck?

Well, then I post this like months ago.

Then I seen the caption.

and then I was like, wait, I didn't do that.

I still got the video saved on my draft months ago on TikTok, bro.

I'm going to pull it up right here.

Now, here's the fucked up part.

The federal government is involved with something that I didn't do.

Like, what?

So, this is what they reposted off my TikTok.

That video got taken down.

So, here's what they reposted on their page.

Now that video is going crazy to hear on Twitter, bro Now I'm a threat to the government for something

that I didn't do bro I'm being called a wannabe YN or wannabe gangster

Over a video that I didn't caption or

I didn't post

So thankful my followers for letting me know about this because seriously this is getting out of hand like literally this is going crazy viral all over social media right now probably might end up being on the news bro so my apologies for that contradiction and rumors from happening

i know my first amendment but i did not post that video

so to clear that out i did not post that video And I apologize for all the rumors that is going around right now on social media about this conflict.

And those other kids that was on the video, bro, they volunteered to want to be on the video, bro.

I asked them if they wanted to be on the video, and then they said, yeah, they agreed with it.

But they wasn't really aware with the captioning.

The captioning for the IRAN video.

But the IRAN video trend that was going on a few months ago, I wanted to hop on that trend.

And I peeped a lot of people was doing the same thing, too.

So I wanted to be creative and change my perspective.

So then I seen comments saying, oh, what if somebody made a YM type of video?

So then I ended up making that video.

And then I started getting threats.

Like, what?

How is it my fault?

That's what y'all wanted.

And now we've seen over and over again now the government utilizing deep fakes.

As part of their horrific message about the shutdown, they've used deep fakes about Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer literally manipulating words and putting words in his mouth.

Here, play this clip right here.

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And ultimately, one of the things that this is trying to create a pretext for is Donald Trump's invasions against blue cities.

They're trying to create the pretext to invade American cities.

I want to give you some other data points.

I mentioned at the outset, President Claudia Scheinbaum of Mexico.

She's dismissed the U.S.

claims of these cartel bounties on immigration officials.

She says she has no information about the Trump administration's claims, as experts are also deeply skeptical.

President Claudia Scheinbaum said her government has no information regarding claims by the Trump administration that Mexican cartels are offering bounties for U.S.

immigration officials.

Quote, we are requesting information, but there is none, Scheinbaum said during her morning press conference.

We learned of this just like you via the Department of Homeland Security's publication.

Scheinbaum's comments come after the Department of Homeland Security claim that this is all taking place.

The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam doubled down posting on social media that Trump has been, quote, so effective in dismantling cartel operations in the U.S.

that cartel members in the U.S.

are now placing bounties on the heads of our agents.

Organized crime experts expressed skepticism at the claims.

In interviews, a former Mexican cartel trafficker, two former DEA agents, and a drug policy scholar all said it was highly unlikely that Mexican organized crime groups are directing U.S.-based gangs to target immigration officials.

This is more farcical BS from the Trump regime.

This is like when Putin talks about denazification of Ukraine.

They come up with these pretexts to support their fascist ends, to support their invasions.

Now, we should talk about the real facts.

Like, let's not forget that back in May 2025, 17 family members of the notorious cartel leader El Chapo entered the United States in in a deal with the Trump administration, Mexico said.

Mexico's security chief didn't get apprised of this information, but just learned that Sinaloa cartel family members were given the red carpet treatment and put right through the border from Tijuana into the United States.

El Chapo's ex-wife, Griselda Lopez-Peres, her daughters and others right now,

They are living in the United States.

Like we were giving sanctuary to cartel family members,

In addition,

we've reported on this before.

Reuters was the one to first break it.

Federal drug prosecutions have fallen to their lowest level in decades as Trump has focused his efforts on raiding Walmarts and farms and Home Depot parking lots and food vendors and

factories and

construction workers.

and has moved people away from actually going after the violent criminals and the drug dealers.

Federal drug prosecutions dropped 10% in 2025 as agents focus on non-violent immigrants.

High-priority drug investigations have stalled.

Reuters reviewed nearly 2 million federal court records and found about 10% fewer people have been prosecuted for drug violations.

This is the slowest rate since the early 1990s.

And money laundering charges have dropped precipitously as well.

And we're seeing the reprioritization on the non-violent individuals right there.

Now, other data points that we need to discuss as well.

While all of this is taking place, We learned yesterday that Christy Noam has just spent $172 million

of our taxpayer money on two private Gulfstream jets, top of the line private jets, so that she and Corey Lewandowski, whatever that relationship is, can travel the country on the taxpayer dime.

170 to during the government shutdown, let's put this in perspective, folks, $40 billion has gone to bail out Argentina, while 20 million Americans will lose their health care and millions more won't be able to afford their health care as the Affordable Care Act premiums skyrocket as a result of the subsidies that many Americans, millions of Americans rely on going away.

But everybody, guess what?

Christy Noam bought herself $172 million jets, private jets, so she can travel the world and cosplay everywhere.

How utterly despicable is that?

Now, another data point I want to give you as well, as we talk about drug interdiction, as we talk about all of this is tied together.

You see, it is a story, yes, about the defamation of that young African-American male placing him under attack as in this cosplay dystopian world.

That put it in this, this is what Trump's done his whole life.

Trump's entire life has been falsely accusing black people of crimes and of things that they haven't done.

Remember when Donald Trump called for the death penalty on the Central Park Valley?

Remember what Trump did back in the day?

Remember what Trump and his dad did when it came to their rental units and how they've always treated minority communities and black communities.

Well, they just go to the old playbook.

Apparently, this group of young black males who is actually being patriotic, perhaps too patriotic, saying, Let's help with Iran.

They've been labeled as receiving money from ICE and the government says we're going to hunt you down.

How horrific.

Now, at the same time, that's happening.

The Trump administration announced yesterday, the Trump regime rather announced yesterday that it will be repatriating two survivors of a deadly U.S.

strike on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute or hold them in military detention.

Donald Trump then confirmed that they would be sent back to Ecuador and Colombia.

They weren't even from Venezuela.

So I'm trying to understand this.

Trump said that these are narco-terrorists is the label.

Two of them survived.

25 have died in Trump blowing up these shipping boats over and over again, which are war war crimes.

Let's not mince words.

War crimes.

Hegseth, war criminal.

Trump, war criminal.

Cristino, war criminal.

These are war criminals who should be tried one day in war tribunals.

Let's be clear what they're doing.

But two people survive this.

And these very dangerous narco-terrorists, what does the regime say?

Oh, we're just going to send them back to their country.

They could go back to Ecuador and Colombia.

Why wouldn't you want to extradite them and try them in the United States?

Say the way El Chapo was tried or people have been tried before.

Why wouldn't you call them military combatants if you're saying that they are

actually

narco-terrorists?

What I suspect, and

even though they say Trump says, we're going to send them back to be prosecuted in their home countries, Call me a conspiracy theorist.

Call me what you want.

I think those people will probably, sadly, disappear very quickly when they step foot in Colombia and Ecuador and never be heard from again.

That's what my prediction is.

What happens to them that they wind up, let me not mince words, it's my prediction, it's my opinion, that they'll just wind up dead.

No one will know who they are.

They'll head there and then there'll be a bounty on their head and that'll be the end of it because Trump doesn't want them telling their story.

He doesn't want them saying what went down.

Because if they told their story, more of these war crimes would be exposed.

So let's find out who those those individuals are.

I suspect we'll never find out who they are and the world will never find out who they are and that they'll disappear very quickly.

But I could be wrong.

Oh, and by the way, remember how I said these Russia propaganda tactics?

Well, the Russian propagandist TAS, T-A-S-S,

and others,

They've been praising Pete Hegseth for wearing the colors of the Russian flag on his tie during the press conference with Zelensky.

Just think about that.

Hegseth wore a tie that had the colors of Russia's flag on it when he met with Zelensky.

Don't give me, oh, the red, white, and blue.

No, those are the Russian flag that he was wearing.

Anyway, we'll tie this all together.

We'll keep you posted every step of the way.

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