Poppycock

Give this guy from Texas 4th Congressional District a cookie. He's right about mainland China, at least in the past.

We've lost tens of thousands of Americans a year to fentanyl, made in China and trafficked into our country by cartels.

Striking the narcoterrorists at sea is in America's best interest.

It's a shame that Democrats can't get over their hatred of President Trump to agree. pic.twitter.com/QU0KMkYTgN

— Rep. Pat Fallon (@RepPatFallon) December 26, 2025

Obviously, it is brought into the USA by carters, as Representative Fallon asserts. However, little of it is coming from Venezuela or Columbia. According to the top official at Customs and Border Protection in September

We saw that as China scheduled fentanyl in 2019 [as a class of drugs that are controlled and restricted], the fentanyl production moved to Mexico. The precursors started moving to Mexico, and we started seeing the pills and powder come across the southwest border specifically trafficked mostly by the Sinaloa cartel. Even today, they control that corridor between Mexico and Arizona and California….

As we started looking for precursors based on the intelligence we had garnered from our previous operations, we saw these substances coming into Los Angeles, JFK, and some of the other express hubs. And we also continued to see the pill presses, dies, and molds that are used for producing the fentanyl pills.

The interesting thing about the precursors is that they were coming in transit through the U.S., then down over the southwest border into Mexico, then being used to process the pills, and then being smuggled back north into the U.S. This gave us multiple opportunities to really hit these transnational criminal organizations that are moving the fentanyl.

So somehow the fetanyl is going from China or Mexico to the southwestern USA- then back to Venezuela and on to the USA?  That's doing things the hard way.

Donald doesn't  give a rat's behind about fetanyl, though that's still more negative than his attitude toward cocaine. The Annenberg Publlic Policy Center has reported that.

According to the indictment filed on Jan. 27, 2022, in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, from about 2004 to 2022, (former Honduran president Juan Carlos) Hernández “participated in a corrupt and violent drug-trafficking conspiracy to facilitate the importation of tons of cocaine into the United States.” He received “millions of dollars from multiple drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and elsewhere, including from the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera,” the Mexican drug kingpin known as “El Chapo.”

Hernández used the drug money to fund his political campaigns and commit voter fraud, the indictment said. “In exchange, Hernández protected drug traffickers, including his brother and former member of the Honduran National Congress Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado … from investigation, arrest, and extradition; caused sensitive law enforcement and military information to be provided to drug traffickers to assist their criminal activities; caused members of the Honduran National Police and military to protect drug shipments in Honduras; and allowed brutal violence to be committed without consequence.”

Hernández “contributed with his co-conspirators to Honduras becoming one of the largest transshipment points in the world for United States-bound cocaine,” the indictment also said. Loads of cocaine were trafficked through Honduras from Colombia and Venezuela by boat and air.

(The Trump administration has been building up the U.S. military presence in the Caribbean in recent months and striking alleged drug-running boats off the coasts of Venezuela and Colombia, as we’ve previously written.).

President Trump on November 28 announced that he was handing a full pardon to Hernandez and two days later told reporters

Well, I was told, I was asked by Honduras, many of the people of Honduras, they said it was a Biden setup. … The people of Honduras really thought [Hernández] was set up and it was a terrible thing.

He was the president of the country, and they basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country." And they said it was a Biden administration setup. And I looked at the facts and I agreed with them.

It's difficult to separate dishonesty and ignorance by GOP members of Congress as this regime continues its reign of terror against whom Donald Trump characterizes as "bloated, fat, and dsigusting" Americans. But there is a tell because there is no such thing as a "narcoterrorist." Transporting narcotics for fun and profit kills a lot of people but does not constitute "terrorism." so if the Republican is railing against "narco-terrorists," the congressman has a complete disregard for the truth, not unlike the President he or she follows blindly.

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