Hello, Ruthless Snopes! It’s your host, Ruth, and this is a special edition of the Ruthless Report.

This morning, the nation can finally breathe in relief as President Gertrude Pond’s twin granddaughters were safely rescued and reunited with their family. The White House just concluded the press conference regarding the rescue operation with FBI Director Don Bridges giving a lot of the details regarding the rescue operation, code-named Valkyrie Rescue, performed by the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team (HRT).

Before jumping in, I must address my silence regarding this matter until now. I became an independent reporter to get out of the sinister world of corporate journalism where the dollar trumps the truth. I left to seek the truth and distill it honestly to you. The last 48 hours have been a real test of that resolve, with many of you Ruthless Snopes rightfully asking why I wasn’t jumping on the hot potato in the news cycle. It is because I fundamentally believe that an abduction should not be politicized. Doing so could further endanger the abductees.

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Now that the rescue operation is complete and everyone is safe, we can ask questions. The FBI says the abduction was carried out by a group, calling themselves Yao, that splintered from the cartel known as New Aztec. An obvious question, why target the President’s granddaughters? What ends would such provocation serve? What was their plan?

So Yao was running a human trafficking ring, and it seems the New Aztec cartel did not agree with that. When Yao abducted the President’s granddaughters, the FBI speculates that that led to even more infighting which the HRT took advantage of to rescue the young women and save refugees. That’s right, refugees who were fleeing violence got swept into this mess.

The Nova Lotus Foundation has taken the lead on getting those refugees to the US border to help them seek asylum in the US. President Gertrude Pond has said that their cases will be expedited. I will be having an exclusive interview with Shahab Feroz, Mother Staringale herself. She is the Founder, President, and CEO of the Nova Lotus Foundation and we will discuss her organization’s role in this crisis and fighting human trafficking around the globe.

You can bet that I will be speaking with the refugees as well to get their side of the story and get another angle to this bizarre event. In the meantime, Serena and Mariah are safe. Both the FBI and the Mexican Federales are heralding this joint operation as a sign of new life in the US-Mexico relations. Yet questions remain. What’s the fallout? What truths aren’t we being told?

Remember, when seeking the truth, be ruthless.