White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped a CNN reporter to shreds for sympathetically interviewing a cartel leader about Trump branding the gang a terrorist organization. The interview between CNN’s Isobel Yeung and a masked Sinaloa cartel leader, which aired Saturday, comes as the White House is cracking down on cartel’s main forms of income, drug trafficking and human smuggling.

Since Trump took office in January, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has already deported over 150,000 illegal aliens and federal forces have stopped over 230,000 pounds of fentanyl from entering the U.S. The Republican has also signed an executive action to designate the drug cartels terrorist groups and their members as terrorists.

‘According to the Trump Administration, you are a terrorist,’ Yeung tells the masked narco. ‘What do you make of that?’ ‘Well, the situation is ugly,’ the cartel member, whose face is completely covered and voice is seemingly altered, tells the journalist. ‘But we have to eat.’ Leavitt skewered the broadcaster for giving a platform to the Sinaloa cartel member on Monday evening.

‘I was actually scrolling on Instagram when I came across this interview, and it stopped me in my tracks, not just because they sat down with a member of a Mexican cartel that is now designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States government, but because of the nature of the questions of this notorious foreign terrorist,’ she said. ‘It was a softball interview giving a platform to a notorious drug cartel that has killed American citizens,’ she continued. ‘I thought it was quite despicable.’

‘But again, this is just another reason why the trust in the legacy media is at an all time low amongst the American public,’ the press secretary added. When asked for what his message to the U.S. president is, the narco responded with a surprising answer. ‘My respect,’ the gang member responded. ‘According to him, he’s looking out for his people,’ the man said of Trump.

Trump has recently proposed sending U.S. troops to help Mexican authorities wipe out the criminal groups . The CIA, according to reports, is also helping the country spy on the cartels using drones and other advanced American capabilities. ‘But the problem is the consumers are in the United States If there weren’t any consumers we would stop,’ the drug dealer explained. Reacting to the interview online many X users posted their outrage over CNN’s coverage.

‘So CNN is concerned about hurting the cartel’s feelings?’ one X user wrote. ‘This isn’t the flex they think it is. It’s offensive to Americans.’ ‘Wow I feel sorry for them,’ another user mocked the cartel leader. ‘Must be tough to make a living now selling stuff that kills people.’ ‘I will not give one second of my precious time to CNN when they are trying to generate empathy for our mortal enemies,’ another wrote.

‘They call this journalism. I call it a psy-op,’ the added. ‘I feel like these kinds of journalists fetishize criminals. It strikes me as similar to the women who would throw themselves at Ted Bundy after he was arrested,’ wrote Mark Valorian.

‘This is absolutely evil,’ stated TS Nelson. ‘Interviewing cartel…the ppl that human traffik children, smuggle drugs into the US, [sexually assault], murder and rob ppl. Just when you think MSM can’t sink any lower the next day happens.’ ‘So CNN is concerned about hurting the cartel’s feelings? This isn’t the flex they think it is. It’s offensive to Americans,’ tweeted Patty Free.

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