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May 12th, 2022. The Worst Drug in the West...

The President's Daily Brief

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What Is the Problem With Direct Sales From China to the Us?

Five years ago, i the us. Department of justice indicted a number of chinese nationals for their rolls in distributing fentnal within the united states. Now what's important to note here is that while they banned the finished drug, that is fentinal they didn't ban the precursor chemicals that make it. And so over the past three or four years, companies in china, these chemical companies, both legitimate and criminal, have joined with a whole bunch of mexican cartel partnersi let me put some names and numbers to this.

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