In a fiery address, President Trump announced a complete halt to U.S. subsidies for Colombia, accusing President Gustavo Petro of running an illegal drug empire and allowing narco trafficking to flourish. Trumps remarks on Air Force One framed Colombia as a drug manufacturing machine, calling Petro a lunatic and threatening direct U.S. intervention in coca fields if local authorities fail to act. Sean Hannity discussed the news with guest Derek Maltz, former DEA Special Operations chief, who credited Trumps administration for taking unprecedented steps to dismantle narco terrorist networks linked to Colombia and Venezuela networks Maltz argues kill more Americans than many designated terrorist groups. This matters as the push signals a dramatic shift toward harsher tactics, aiming to disrupt the cartels deadly impact on American families and communities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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The president has had it.
And by the way, there's a 53% drop in the amount of fentanyl coming into the country because of, number one, secure borders.
Number two is the president clearly has taken on Maduro and these narco-terrorists.
The president now targeting and accusing Colombia's president, Gustavo Petro, of being an illegal drug dealer and announcing that his administration is now cutting off all subsidies to the South American country.
He further trashed his Colombian counterpart as a very unpopular leader, warned Petro to close up these drug fields or else the U.S. will close them up for him and it won't be done nicely.
He said President Gustavo Petro of Colombia is an illegal drug dealer and strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs in a big and in big and small fields all over Colombia.
It has become the biggest business in Colombia by far and Petro does nothing to stop it despite large-scale payments and subsidies from the U.S. that are nothing more than a long-term ripoff of America.
The U.S. sent, by the way, $207 million worth of foreign aid to Colombia this year.
Here's the president saying that we're dropping all money that we're giving to Colombia because their president is a lunatic.
He said it on Air Force One.
And in fact, even when they had better presidents than they have right now, they were, that's how they're making a lot of money.
Drugs.
I used to complain about it when they had a very nice president, but he wasn't done.
It was all talk.
They are a drug manufacturing machine, Colombia, and we're not going to be part of it.
So we're going to drop all money that we're giving to them.
It has nothing to do with them stopping drug production.
And you look at the fields.
The fields are loaded up with drugs and they refine the drugs and they make tremendous amounts of cocaine and they send it all over the world and they destroy families.
No, Colombia is out of control and now they have the worst president they've ever had.
He's a lunatic who's got a lot of problems, mental problems.
Some more freshmen telling me, uh-huh.
The Colombian president says that the U.S. killed an innocent Colombian fisherman in one of the strikes.
He said that when we shut down a submarine, that they were just fishing.
This is a separate.
This was a submarine that was meant, by the way, this was a submarine that was meant for one reason and made for one reason to carry massive amounts of drugs.
Anyway, joining us now is Derek Maltz is with us, former agent in charge of DEA Special Operations Division, joining us to discuss the president's efforts to defeat narcoterrorism and the nations that support it and allow it, which we all know results in the deaths of untold numbers of Americans.
Anyway, we appreciate you being back, Derek.
You know, this has gone on unabated for a long time.
It only got worse because our borders were wide open.
And while all of the tens of millions, God knows anywhere between 12 and 20 million unvetted Biden-Harris majorcaus illegals came into the country, including cartel members, drug dealers, murderers, rapists, other violent criminals, and known terrorists.
What the drug dealers particularly were doing is, okay, well, all of America's resources were being used to basically give people a free pass and transportation to whatever state they wanted to go to.
Well, say what you will about how evil drug dealers are.
For $10, they'll kill somebody and not blink an eye.
But on the other hand, they're not stupid.
And they were using the other open parts of our border to smuggle their drugs in and do it unimpeded.
So, Sean, like, you know, this administration, even during the campaign, made it really clear they're going to stand up for Americans first.
They're going to stop all the deaths in this country, hundreds of thousands of kids, as you reported over several years.
And, you know, I work with the families.
I was at the rally in D.C. this weekend.
These poor families, all these babies now, they're infants that are dying.
So thank God this administration is using all tools of national power to take care of the mission to shut them down.
And the reality is, and the sad part is when I was acting administrator of the DEA, I met with the new Colombian National Police General, and they were talking about the record amounts of coca production and cocaine production.
But now what they're doing is they're able to move this stuff around the world, not just into America, because parts of Europe and all over like New Zealand and Australia, they're addicted to cocaine.
So they're trying to, you know, make billions of dollars and they're sending stuff around the world, but the president has stood up strong and Maduro and that corrupt regime in Venezuela.
We've watched that grow, Sean, for over 20 years, starting with Chavez.
And they actually were very aligned with Hezbollah as they were working with the Los, you know, the Los Estes cartel.
And they were moving billions of dollars in proceeds.
So that Venezuela has been a command and control hub for global distribution of dangerous drugs for many years.
So it's about time we're standing up strong and shutting them down.
Well, we have to.
I mean, you know, and I know there's going to be opposition to this.
Predictably, it doesn't matter what Trump does.
And I'm really not sure why Americans are not more outraged because you have all of these young kids that are dying and all these people that use drugs that are dying.
I mean, fentanyl, if you have three grains of salt, you'll take a 250-pound man and it's fentanyl.
You're dead.
It's over.
And they're lacing these drugs, quote, to make them more powerful.
And the people that do it didn't exactly go to chemistry school at MIT or get a degree in chemistry at any school.
And they don't care for $15 if somebody drops dead from an overdose.
Right.
Sean, in America, people have to look at this a little differently, right?
Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and ISIS are known terrorist organizations.
And how many people have they killed in America?
How many citizens combined have they killed?
Not even close to what the cartels have done.
So the American public should have known in January when President Trump came on board, he made it clear he was going to declare these drug trafficking networks terrorists because they're not just drug traffickers.
They have expanded beyond even transnational criminal organizations.
They are terrorists.
Like in Venezuela, for example, people don't realize how it works, but the FARC and ELN in Colombia are the ones that are bringing all the cocaine over the border that's manufactured in Colombia.
And they have free passage right into Venezuela.
Then they stockpile these drugs.
They put them in these semi-submersibles.
Sean, I was in one of those semi-submersibles.
I was fascinated because it was like tight quarters, but they could fit, you know, tons of cocaine, for example, tons of drugs in these semi-submersibles.
So I was personally excited when I saw the strike on the semi-submersible because I call that like a mother load, right?
It's not just a couple of kilos of cocaine.
That could be two, three tons, maybe more of cocaine.
So bottom line is like people have to realize that when these babies are dying in our country, like that poor kid up in New York City, the Dominican boy, one-year-old in the daycare center, was crawling along the mats and he touched apparently the fentanyl and then he died.
Well, you know, this is what's happening all over.
I got to wear a t-shirt with dead babies on my shirt, just so people, when they say, why are we hitting these boats?
Well, why are these little babies dying from the poison coming in?
And let's not forget, by the way, that that Maduro exported those TDA monsters all in our communities around America, those monsters that are now terrorists as well.
So he took advantage of the wide open border and the weaknesses during the last four years.
And President Trump almost instantly shut that down.
As you reported, the border has virtually nobody coming in.
They released, what, zero the last four months into America?
The nation.
That's it.
Nothing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The nationwide encounters are down.
So these cartels, Sean, they're getting a little uncomfortable.
They have to make money.
They're trying to keep up the lifestyles.
So now they're going to just produce more and more.
And not just in Colombia, but Bolivia and Peru.
It's off the charts, the production.
The transnational criminals are making billions of dollars, but our citizens are dying.
So thank you for this administration.
I love the fact that Department of War is using all the tools.
I know right now, Sean, because I was in the meetings when I was still in the government, you know, they are working closer together in this whole of government approach.
I dreamed of something like that when I was the head of the special operations.
This is a real war on narcoterrorism.
And my prediction is you're looking at a Maduro that knows he's on his last legs.
In the White House on Friday, the president was very, very clear that Maduro is now saying, oh, I'll do whatever you want.
I think probably the best thing that can happen is he pack, you know, get in an airplane, pack it, and go to Russia or seek refuge or asylum somewhere in the world.
Maybe he'll seek it in Colombia.
I have no idea where he's going to go.
But the best thing that can happen is the woman that won the Nobel Peace Prize that said that Donald Trump deserved it, who was the opposition leader in Venezuela, would probably be a good candidate to maybe take over and run that country.
I think it was Jorge Ramos did some reporting from Venezuela.
You know, with all of the natural resources that country has in terms of oil and energy, et cetera, they should be one of these energy-rich countries, and they're not because of all the corruption.
And, you know, people eating out of garbage trucks, and they don't have enough food to provide for their families.
It's a disaster there.
And, you know, the days of Maduro seem to be ticking away.
And the days of this Columbia president also seem to be ticking away.
Petro doesn't seem, I don't know, I'd say his days sound to be number two.
Yeah, so Sean, two things.
For my entire life, everybody talks about the war on drugs.
To be honest, there was never a war on drugs.
We never used military weapons to go after drug boats.
We needed a war on drugs to shut them down years ago.
We could have saved so many American lives.
But unfortunately, the last four years, it was soft on crime.
They gave the bad guys the advantages.
But it's just really refreshing as a career DEA guy.
My father was 30 years in the DEA.
And to be able to say, yeah, now we have a war on drug traffickers on terrorists that are killing our kids.
So again, it's just very, very different environment now.
But we're going to see drastic reductions of deaths from this poison.
But Sean, we do have to educate the kids.
We have to get social media messaging out there by celebrities and influences.
We have to have it in school because just shutting down a supply is not going to stop the Chinese as they're sending all these isomidazines, nitazines, protonidazines, metanidazines, carfentanyl, xylazine.
This stuff is more powerful.
So the chemical attack from China is still ongoing, and they will take every advantage of the attention that we're pushing into the region of South America in Venezuela, Colombia.
So we have to keep multiple balls up in the air at once, but the education of the kids is really critical, and we have to be way more aggressive.
This is not like Grandpa's opioid crisis.
Even the marijuana now is being made by the Chinese that's spraying Chinese pesticide.
They're actually making THC very high in the marijuana.
Kids' brains getting destroyed.
The vapes now coming in from China.
So we have a much bigger chemical attack on the country, but I'm really happy and very proud of the administration's efforts right now.
We're on the right track.
Derek Maltz, we appreciate your former agent in charge of the DEA Special Operations Division.
Thank you, sir.
Great to hear from you again.
All right, quick break.
When we come back, we'll take a call and calls in our final half hour coming up as well.
800-941.
Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, give us a call.
And we'll come back on the other side straight ahead.
Let's get to our busy phones.
800-941, Sean is on number.
CJ is in North Carolina on the Sean Hannity show.
What's up, CJ?
How are you?
Hey, Sean, I appreciate your time, sir.
I just want to mention you, they had the big thing over the weekend here from the Democrats.
And if you got a 540 heading, what we call east of on 540, which is a big loop around the north side of Raleigh, there were 11 fires set right along the highway.
It was just a mess, man.
And I was pretty, you know, when I got on there, there's only one fire engine all the way down that road.
It was towards the last one near Leesville Road where they had set fire.
You know, they're saying this is all arson.
And I think it's going to be coming from this president's thing there or the King's thing they set up because where they were actually all gathering at 540 in Capitol Boulevard, there were huge fires near the highway.
They had to shut 540 down.
It was so bad.
Yeah, look, I mean, I warned everybody last week, stay away.
I thought it had all the potential for violence.
I think that there was a lot of preparation.
I believe, according to crowdsource on foxnews.tom.com, the CEO of that group said his organization turned down an offer that he said would have been worth $20 million to recruit for a nation national rally against Trump and interests aligned with organizers of the July 17th movement, you know, approached them.
This goes back earlier in the year.
And in fact, we rejected an offer that was worth around $20 million.
And anyway, it says crowds on demand, a company based in California specializes in that.
There was a lot of astroturfing, but it's neither here nor there.
Democrats took part in it.
It is meaningless symbolism.
They have no substance.
They have nothing to offer we the people.
And that's why they find themselves in a position where they're held hostage by the radicals that now run their party.
And if you are a moderate, if you are, you're keeping your mouth shut out of just pure political survival instincts and fear.
And you're putting your own personal ambition above what's right.
Hi, 25 now to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, your call's coming up here.
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What was the movie with Sean Connery and Michael Douglas's wife?
What's Michael Douglas' wife's name?
Catherine Zeta Jones.
Catherine Zeta Jones.
Okay.
Remember the movie and they were doing that heist scene and they were preparing for this big, you know, big heist and it was just awesome.
Great movie.
I like that a lot better than say Ocean's 11 because I can't stand George Cloney, but putting that aside.
So did you see what happened in France this weekend at the Louvre and this targeted heist that took place?
I mean, it was the way they planned this out.
They use a mechanical lift.
They breached the museum.
They did all of this in seven minutes.
They walked out with unbelievable history and items that are irreplaceable that were in the museum.
Eight objects were taken.
You know, you got sapphires and necklaces and earrings.
And, you know, I'm not going to go through the whole history of it all.
You know, one professional expert said the sad part is they may be melted down or priced out separately and they'll punch stones out of the crowns and they'll cut the stones and they'll market them individually and to take their fingerprints off it.
But I mean, so they get this, they get like a truck that pulls up.
It has a ladder.
They break into the window.
They get these, if you will, crowned jewels, if I may use the term, and they get away on motor scooters.
Did you see that this weekend?
It's crazy.
I thought it was like, I'm like, is this a Babylon B story?
This can't be real.
How much more embarrassing can France get?
It's just ridiculous.
Oh, I don't know.
What was the name of the movie with Sean Connery?
It was so.
I sent it to you.
Entrapment.
Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta Jones.
I never remember the names of movies.
I just watched them.
I've watched that movie probably three times.
She's very good in that movie.
He's great in that movie.
And Sean Connery is great in that movie.
He was phenomenal.
I know he recently passed away, but he's phenomenal.
But yeah, as far as East France, like Raw, it's like, this is the thing that bothers me, right?
It's like they're saying that it's an inside job.
Why does it bother you?
I could care less about what happens.
Why?
Because it's embarrassing.
They escaped on motorbikes.
Why are you embarrassed by a robbery in France?
I'm more embarrassed.
Because American in American cities.
Police officers.
It's embarrassing to Leos everywhere.
You have to be able to get little tiny men on motorbikes.
You got to be kidding me.
It's embarrassing.
Not to mention the fact, have you ever been to Paris?
Do you know how you know what the Louvre looks like when you come out of the Champs-Élysées?
Well, first of all, everybody drives like a complete moron.
I don't know how they even got to that.
I'm not paying attention to the geography lesson.
We're getting to, you know, I have traveled to Europe, and yes, but I don't go into museums.
I think that I walk into a museum and I'm drained of every bit of ounce of energy I have in me.
You get absolutely no disagreement from me.
I can't stand me.
If I walk into a mall, I am drained the second I walk in.
I'm like, oh, I'm exhausted.
I don't do malls.
I don't do museums.
I don't do a lot of shopping.
You go into it.
Now he's got to have a desire to go.
How funny is that?
You do want to go?
Listen, I'm sorry, but I think this is hilarious that in this day and age that they allowed this to happen and they allowed it to happen.
But you can't pass the buck of blame.
I mean, I could see if it happened here, Democrats would probably blame Donald Trump.
They don't want law enforcement.
I think they're right.
It looks like an inside job.
I mean, it does look like an inside job.
There's too many things.
They had nine targets.
Well, there had to be some understanding of when they could do it.
They had to.
100%.
100%.
Again, we're playing Inspector Cluseau here.
Well, we're Monday morning quarterbacking the moment, but it's seven minutes, eight pieces of priceless jewelry or priceless artifacts or whatever they took.
I don't know if it was all jewelry.
And then it's in broad daylight on a Sunday.
I'm like, really?
I mean, obviously somebody had an inside tip.
Let's get to our busy phones.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's go to the Buckeye State, Ohio.
Nick is on the Sean Hannity show.
Nick, hey, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
I've been looking at how much money my insurance is costing in Cincinnati, and it's getting pretty embarrassing and expensive.
We in Ohio, they do.
I'm going to have to call Billy Carter.
Sean Hannity, you're a great American.
God bless you.
God bless America.
I want a full report.
On a scale of one to 10, how good is that imitation?
It's not too bad, but he's actually the reason for the call.
You might want to call him up and verify part of this.
The court system is letting people out on no money bail.
The recidivism is incredibly bad.
And at the same time, the mayor is not letting the police department do their job.
And the effect, the end effect is that we have insurance rates going through the roof.
At 1.30 in the morning, I was over near my house and saw a car with a drunk automatic illegal who launched the entire car through a brick railing, then through the front brick wall of this house.
And he was up in the air about 18 feet.
I mean, that's just one thing.
I was talking to Willie.
I was on his show, I don't know, maybe two weeks ago, but we always talk off-air.
And I was talking to him and Hamilton County, for example.
Do you live in Hamilton County?
Yeah, that's ours.
Okay.
So it used to be a very red county.
It's not anymore.
And the state of Ohio demographically areas have changed and shifted dramatically.
It's more Democrat now.
And so why does that not surprise me?
Don't you have a Democratic mayor elected there now?
Bad news one.
Oh, well, I mean, what do you expect?
What do you think is about to happen in New York City?
Our city council is just as bad.
Yeah, these city, they're terrible.
You know, and I hate to tell you that oftentimes, I mean, obviously the federal government has its ultimate role in defending our nation, but local government makes decisions about your schools, about law and order and safety and security in your towns.
They put restrictions on cops.
They have no bail laws, all this madness.
You know, I would have hoped that Mike DeWine seems a little bit tired to me.
And I think we need a shot of Vivek Ramaswamy adrenaline in Ohio.
I think that'll help a lot.
I think Vivek has learned a lot watching Donald Trump.
I think he'll duplicate on the state level what Trump's done nationally.
So anyway, my friend, I appreciate it.
Hang in there.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, let's say hi to Todd in Kentucky.
Todd, how are you?
Glad you called.
Hello, Sean, from the Bluegrass State, just below the Buckeye State, geographically, anyways.
I'm calling the sheriff's perspective, you know, that contextualizes President Trump efforts.
I'm a former military intelligence officer and taught national security strategy on a graduate level.
And actually, your previous call with the DA mentioned a little bit.
You talked about the tools of national power.
Well, national leaders, they have three primary tools or instruments of national power.
That's diplomatic, economic, and military.
And the job that President Trump's been doing is phenomenal.
I mean, diplomatic, it's the ability to, you know, influence other foreign leaders or respect you or that you can negotiate with them.
We see none of that with President Biden, unfortunately.
The economic aspect, you know, it's if you've got to have a strong economy to be able to leverage your will to avoid military conflict, which is the third tool, which obviously we're using down in Central America because obviously you can't negotiate with narco leaders and stuff like that.
But anyone who truly wants peace should be ecstatic over President Trump's use of diplomatic and economic power, especially these last nine months, because honestly, I think no one would disagree that if President Trump wasn't successful in the Middle East, that the hostages probably are not coming home.
And he's just doing phenomenal.
But we compartmentalize so much.
We see a diplomatic effort or success story.
We don't realize how that plays in to our whole national strategic interest, because if they're not being leveraged, if the tools aren't being used, then we have no national strategy.
We're being shaped by the environment rather than shaping it.
So, you know, President Trump use of diplomatic and economic and now military tools as far as the narco-terrorism.
It's just, it's phenomenal.
If you just stand back and look, the first thing President Trump had to do was secure our borders and begin the process of removing criminal illegals that were allowed in under Joe Biden.
He did that.
Check that box.
The next thing he had to do of big importance was to set the foundation for significant economic growth and reverse the disaster of the Biden-Harris economy.
Now, the foundation's been set.
We're not fully seeing or bearing the fruit yet because, you know, the seed's been planted.
The seed's been watered.
It's being nurtured.
You have $17 trillion in the pipeline and new manufacturing money is coming online.
You have the largest tax cuts in history.
They are coming online.
Remember, it took a little while for it to kick in in the Reagan administration and it will.
And we ended up doubling revenues to the government by cutting taxes, 21 million new jobs, longest period of peacetime economic growth.
The president has unleashed the potential for American energy dominance.
Again, it needs time.
That will kick in.
We are now seeing the process of his economy.
You know, a lot of very good, significant indicators in place.
Interest rates.
You know, we had 0.25 basis points reduction.
Next week, we'll see if it's 0.25.
Maybe we can pray for 0.50, half a basis point, all of which, but we will get a new Fed chair in May.
That'll accelerate that portion of the economy.
And once interest rates come down, watch out because that's going to unleash sale of pre-existing homes, new home construction.
And when you build these manufacturing centers with the $17 trillion, I mean, I don't think we've ever been poised better.
So now he's turned his attention to foreign policy.
Now, are we going to experience hiccups in the Middle East?
We see, you know, yeah, we got the release of the hostages.
That in and of itself is a massive accomplishment because that takes away leverage from Hamas.
All right.
But now Hamas is killing its own people or anyone deemed not to want them to power or perceived as not wanting them in power.
I don't think this Arab coalition has been quick enough to act.
Probably Israel is going to have to go in and clean it up and finish the job is my guess, but that's okay because then a real rebuilding will begin with the help of neighboring countries that are now committed to the process.
The next thing is Vladimir Putin.
President Trump gave the carrot, gave the carrot, gave the carrot.
Now he's going with the stick, and that got Putin's attention, especially when he's now putting tariffs on countries that import Russian oil, the lifeblood of their economy.
And the second portion of leverage is, you know, maybe we'll just take the handcuffs off Zelensky.
Zelensky then pounding the refineries, the heartbeat of Russia's economy, and also now offering Comahawk missiles.
That got Putin's attention.
Now Putin's back at the table.
So, you know, all of these things are big, consequential, transformational, and hard, but you can see that there's a method to his madness, also dealing with narco-terrorists now.
That's the next part.
Anyway, let me get back to our phones.
Appreciate it.
Let's see.
Kansas City, Jay on the Sean Hannity Show.
What's up, Jay?
Hey, happy No King Monday.
You know, Stephen A. Smith writes, man, I said, Steve and I, those crowds are meaningless.
I said, the Democrats have all of those people.
That's them.
That's their base.
I said, here's their problem.
The rest of America is going to watch this.
And whether you're a Democrat and you're more moderate in your thinking or you're a Republican and you're watching that, you're thinking these people are absolutely bat Adam shift crazy.
That's it.
I said, win for Donald Trump.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I just had a quick Kansas City observation for you and also a concern.
What I observed Friday was this long, long line of port-a-potties out there.
I thought, oh, wow, that's for the Kings Rally or something.
But then I found out, no, no, that's for the Kansas City Marathon that actually happened the same day.
And then it was like, oh, well, that makes sense, I guess, because it's no kings, so they wouldn't have thrones, right?
Portable thrones.
Aha, I get it.
Understand.
That's their throne.
It's all it is is performative art, waste of time.
And all the Democrats do is reinforce their insane image to the American people.
I appreciate the call, my friend.
All right, that's going to wrap things up for today.
This terrorist, Hamas terrorist, found in Louisiana.
We'll check in with Speaker Mike Johnson, who is from there.
Also the latest on the Schumer shutdown.
No Kings Rally, independent journalist Nick Sorter was there.
