FBI Director Kash Patel was on “Sunday Morning Futures” with host Maria Bartiromo to discuss President Trump’s priority to keep Americans safe from the fentanyl crisis.
The Director recently returned from China to work with the government over there to stop the flow of the chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl.
China has claimed that it will crack down on the production of chemicals that are being used to make the deadly drug.
“You went to China for one or two days. Tell us what you accomplished?” Bartiromo asked.
“We set this in motion. We, under President Trump’s leadership, and strong leadership, and engaging in President Xi Jinping on the fentanyl crisis,” Patel said.
“The prior administration, the Biden administration, allowed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Americans to be killed by opioids alone. That is a national security crisis of epic proportions that was left unaddressed,” Patel explained.
“President Trump comes in, engages his counterpart President Xi Jinping and says we’ve got to address this,” Patel said.
“Sets up engagements over the last eight to nine months and designates the FBI Director to go there and make sure this deal is solidified,” Patel continued.
“This opioid crisis is going to be turned off. Americans are no longer going to lose their life to manufactured synthesis opioids like fentanyl,” Patel explained.
Director Patel said that during the four years of the Biden regime, there was no effort to engage China to stop any flow of the deadly chemicals that are used to produce fentanyl. He said that President Trump has taken decisive action to stop these chemicals to save American lives.
“No one has bothered to engage China. The Biden administration didn’t even do it. And fentanyl, for those, it’s not like cocaine or marijuana, where it starts naturally in a grow house, or a grow facility, or a grow yard, and then it is produced into an ultimate chemical and drug,” Patel explained.
“Fentanyl is purely chemically created, and if you take the ingredients, these precursors that we are talking about, these chemicals that we are talking about, and you shut off their flow, then the Mexican drug cartels cannot make it,” Patel said.
“Biden could have lifted one, or two, or three of the precursors. Zero. Trump got it done, lifting all 13 precursors and restricting all seven chemicals, essentially shutting off the pipeline,” Patel continued.
“We are going to see immediate results and immediate American lives saved by the hundreds of thousands thanks to President Trump’s brilliant leadership,” Patel said.
“You believe that the Chinese will keep their commitment here?” Bartiromo asked.
“I don’t think anyone has covered China better than you have, and I understand the skepticism, but I do also believe in President Trump’s leadership,” Patel continued.
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