This Puerto Rico Drugs-for-Votes Scheme Is Even Worse Than it Sounds

Watch Today's FULL PDS here: https://youtu.be/rQwDPNn3fhE Watch the full Daily DeFranco Show: https://www.youtube.com/@PhilipDeFranco?sub_confirmation=1 Get More News Clips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpLB7kBu9O5dbBKhaIOmqcQ?sub_confirmation=1 We've gotta talk about this alleged conspiracy that goes so deep it involves, at one end, a Puerto Rican prison gang, and at the other end the president of the United States: Donald J. Trump. And if this Propublica report is correct, they’re still trying to bury the whole thing under the rug. Right, so here’s how the scheme worked, according to investigators. First, a drone would fly over a prison in Puerto Rico and drop off a package of narcotics. Then, staff at the prison would help get the drugs inside and distribute them while acting as lookouts. And finally, leaders of a prison gang known as Los Tiburones, or the Sharks, would sell the drugs to other inmates, but here’s the twist: they didn’t sell them for money, at least not always. Instead, they sold them for votes. Specifically votes for the island’s now Republican governor, Jenniffer González-Colón, whom I’ll refer to by her nickname, JGo. She’s got a long history in Republican politics; she served as the party chair for the territory, represented Puerto Rico in Congress, and did a lot of work with “Latinos for Trump.” So when she took office as governor in January 2025, Trump congratulated her, and JGo pushed to have a statue of him built at the Capitol building in San Juan. But for a president who claimed to be so concerned about drug trafficking and election integrity, Trump didn’t seem too worried about the allegations coming out of Puerto Rico. This even though the investigation implicated not just inmates and prison staff, but possibly Jgo herself. Right, multiple sources told Propublica that officials were working toward determining whether she or her campaign was involved in the scheme, and they’d found some stuff. Stuff like evidence that JGo had spoken to a gang member, including a Facebook post in which one gang leader bragged about his connection to her. With him reportedly attaching a photo of himself talking to her on WhatsApp at the time she was running in her party’s primary for governor. So while they kept probing into that, federal prosecutors began preparing an indictment against the people they’d already caught. But then, all of a sudden, everything changed in November 2024, right after Trump and JGo won their respective elections. According to Propublica, higher-ups in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Puerto Rico told the prosecutors to exclude the voting-related charges against the inmates and all charges against the prison staff. —————————— Produced by: Cory Ray, Philip DeFranco Edited by: James Girardier, Maxwell Enright, Julie Goldberg, Christian Meeks, Matthew Henry Art Department: William Crespo Writing/Research: Chris Tolve, Philip DeFranco ———————————— #USA #America #PuertoRico