The Trump administration issued an executive order on January 20, 2025, that labels groups as foreign terrorist organizations or specially designated global terrorists.
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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026
Executive Order 14157, 'Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists,' was signed by President Trump on January 20, 2025, per the Federal Register, White House, govinfo, and CRS sources. The claim faithfully reflects the passage and the order's text matches its description.
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… The Trump administration has repeatedly said that the people killed in these strikes are quote unquote narco traffickers and therefore enemy combatants, according to a January 20th, 2025, executive order that labels the groups that the dead allegedly belonged to either quote unquote foreign terrorist organizations or quote unquote specially designated global terrorists, two terms that sound like they're the same thing but essentially delineate groups marked by the State Department and the Treasury Department, respectively, as terrorists. …
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Supports. The Federal Register publishes Executive Order 14157 with a signing date of January 20, 2025, signed by President Donald J. Trump, and titled 'Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.'[2]
Supports. The White House posted the order dated January 20, 2025, which creates a process to designate cartels and other organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations or Specially Designated Global Terrorists.[3]
Supports. The govinfo compilation of the Administration of Donald J. Trump records the same order dated January 20, 2025, with the same FTO and SDGT designation process.[4]
Supports. A Congress.gov CRS product states that on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued the order designating cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists.[5]
Context. AP reporting from February 2025 describes the administration carrying out the January 20 executive order by designating eight Latin American groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.[1]
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- 1Trump administration labels 8 Latin American cartels as ' ...apnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terroristsfederalregister.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 3Designating Cartels And Other Organizations As Foreign ...whitehouse.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 4Executive Order 14157—Designating Cartels and Other Organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terroristsgovinfo.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
- 5Protecting the American People Against Invasion - Congress.govcongress.gov · primary source · cited for: supports
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