In a stunning display of intellectual force that exposed the bankrupt narrative-peddling of the liberal media, Senator Eric Schmitt of Missouri absolutely dismantled ABC’s partisan anchor George Stephanopoulos during a live television interview. The confrontation centered on President Donald Trump’s lawful and strategic pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, an act the failing media immediately sought to weaponize against the President’s historic record on border security and the fight against narco-terrorism.
From the outset, Stephanopoulos attempted to steer the conversation into a pre-written script, demanding to know if Senator Schmitt supported the pardon. In a brilliant strategic pivot, Schmitt refused to be cornered by a fake news narrative and instead exposed the anchor’s true, hypocritical intent. “I’m not familiar with the facts or circumstances, but I think what’s telling here is, to try to imply that somehow President Trump is soft on drug smuggling is just ridiculous. It’s totally ridiculous,” Schmitt declared, immediately turning the tables. He highlighted the monumental success of President Trump’s policies, stating, “He’s provided border security like we’ve never seen before.” With the southern border finally closed, Schmitt explained, the cartels have been forced to shift tactics, and President Trump is using his full constitutional authority to confront them. “President Trump is acting with his core Article 2 powers. No serious legal expert would doubt that the President has authority to blow narco-terrorists out of the water who are poisoning 100,000 Americans every year,” he stated, putting the urgent human cost of the crisis front and center.
Senator Schmitt proceeded to eviscerate the Democrats’ glaring hypocrisy, contrasting their feigned expertise on foreign threats with their willful blindness to the failures within their own party. “Now what we have are Democrats who have such X-ray vision and clairvoyance that they know the intentions of narco-terrorists on boats, yet were so blind that they couldn’t see they had a president for four years who was operating as a vegetable in Joe Biden,” he stated, delivering a devastating and truthful assessment of the previous administration’s incapacitation. He identified the core motivation behind the media-Democrat complex’s weekly hysterics: a desperate attempt to sabotage the America-First agenda. “Forgive me if I’m a little skeptical that this isn’t all about politics and trying to take out Secretary Hegseth. That’s what this whole thing has been about, George,” Schmitt asserted, exposing the coordinated effort to block realist leaders focused on genuine national interests like hemispheric security and countering China.
🚨 JUST IN: Sen. Eric Schmitt EVISCERATES fake news George Stephanopoulos to his face 🔥
“You spew Democrat talking points every single week, which is probably why your ratings are so BAD!”
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 7, 2025
When Stephanopoulos, acting as a Democrat operative, feigned disbelief that the Senator wasn’t versed in every detail of the case, Schmitt delivered the final, crushing blow to the anchor’s credibility and his network’s collapsing ratings. “Well, I’m curious about your pushback on that particular point. With your previous guest, you had zero pushback because he’s giving the Democrat talking points, like you spew every single week — which is probably why your ratings are so bad,” he fired back. Schmitt correctly identified that this entire line of questioning was a cynical ploy to divert the public. “But to make the point, what I’m saying is that you’re trying to divert attention from what the American people actually support. Seventy-five percent of Americans support us blowing narco-terrorists out of the water,” he concluded, affirming that President Trump’s decisive actions have overwhelming public support, while the media’s desperate narratives are rejected by a nation tired of their lies.