Social media is pulling no punches on the baiting of an apparent sympathetic CNN interview with a U.S.-designated terrorist in Mexico.

“Unbelievably, CNN gives Sinaloa cartel member a chance to throw a pity party about being labeled a terrorist, but the cartel member tells them President Trump is just rightly ‘looking after his people,'” a poster on X wrote, responding to CNN’s reporting where it protected a designated terrorist at a secret location. “He says he respects that.”

The CNN reporter interviewed a cartel gangster who says he helps deliver fentanyl to Americans, and he warned “all areas are dangerous” in Mexico and was asked about the Trump administration designating Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel among the Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists on Feb. 20 after a day one Trump administration executive order on Jan. 20.

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