Washington Examiner senior writer Joe Concha compared former President Barack Obama’s record to the recent strikes by President Donald Trump.
Concha appeared on Fox Business’s The Evening Edit Tuesday, where host Elizabeth MacDonald reported that Obama issued 1,680 drone strikes that killed over 6,400 people, which included 816 innocent civilians and 101 children.
“Those numbers are just remarkable that you just read, over 100 children killed by drone strikes? American citizens abroad were killed by Obama’s drone strikes, and he says it haunted him,” Concha said. “Well, once you get over a thousand drone strikes, maybe you aren’t so haunted by that, in this case, 1,680.”
Meanwhile, at least 30 people have been killed as a result of six strikes in the Caribbean against vessels from Venezuela and Colombia since September. A recent strike left two survivors who were transported to their respective native countries. All are alleged narco-terrorists, according to Trump and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and their vessels were suspected of trafficking drugs.
Concha noted that the war on drugs is important as American overdose deaths are on the rise.
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“Now we have Democrats defending narco-terrorists because they are so reflexively anti-Trump and reflexively anti-Pete Hegseth, for that matter, as the secretary of war, where they are just trying to protect Americans from drugs coming into this country that killed tens of thousands of Americans every year, more than any war that we have been involved in since Vietnam,” Concha said.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported over 80,000 drug overdose deaths in 2024. This number has been increasing since 2015, when the CDC first reported over 47,000 deaths in 2014.
