Dr. Robert Marbut
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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Thank you so very much for having on. And more importantly, thank you for caring about the fentanyl crisis. Really appreciate it.
Well, I had been President Trump's first homelessness czar, and so I was very involved with everything going on on the street, and I saw how fentanyl was really starting to hit the street. But then, over the last year and a half, two years, the numbers just skyrocketed. And to give you an idea how this is an existential threat to the United States,
This was the number when I sort of was doodling it together, I said, I got to do something about it. I got to produce it. And here's the number. More people have died in fentanyl in the last five years than adding up All 100 years of wars of uniform service, intelligence service for U.S. Americans, men and women.
So add up the fatalities of World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War I, Gulf War II, Afghanistan, Iraq, global war on terror, a few U.N. actions, a couple other ones in there, add all up together, more people have died in fentanyl in the last five years than all American war fatalities in the last 100 years.
I think with the current administration of Biden and Harris, there was none. I don't know if it's neglect or sleep at the wheel or incompetence. I don't know what it was. but they were not acting like a house was on fire. This is the biggest existential threat to the United States I think we've had since Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini, and we are not acting like that.
Well, everything starts with China. That's where the precursors initially started coming from. Actually, some of the finished products started coming from China. And then now it's the pre-precursors. And they got in alignment, strategic alignment with the Mexican cartels initially. And to be honest, they filled the void of what Purdue Pharma had done. We all know about Purdue Pharma.
You know, that was talked a lot about. And you had millions of people taking prescriptions there. Hundreds of thousands addicted. And when all the lawsuits happened and they started taking that down and they started saying, you can't get that prescription, the doctors stopped giving it less. The Mexican cartels and they they're insidious, really bad people, but they're good business people.
And they saw a void and they jumped right in. They already had the distribution network. They were already doing illicit drugs of all different types. They had human trafficking already going so they knew how to get across the border. So it was made ready for them. And they just jumped into that void. And that's phase one of the crisis.
It is literally China working with the Mexican cartels to fill the supply void that occurred because of Purdue Pharma.
Both. And I think initially it was purely about money. I think it was the criminal bad actors seeing this as a way to fill that supply void, if you will, and make a lot of money. Then over time, I think the regime, the Communist Party of China, sits there and goes, hold on a second. We're making hard cash. We're getting greenbacks to come into our economy. And now we're weakening our adversary.
And so they were able to make some money initially, but they now have that extra benefit of weakening their adversary. And so I think initially it was probably about money. And then they realized, wow, we got even maybe a better benefit of weakening our adversary than just the money bringing in.
To be honest, over the last four years, I saw very little being done at all. More has been done since President Trump has gotten elected, to be honest. The fact he reached out and talked to both the president of Mexico
and the prime minister of canada look he had the prime minister of canada fly down to mar-a-lago within two days and i can't remember when they met with president biden on this crisis i meant our house is on fire and we're not acting like it but president trump has gotten more action in the last four weeks than the prior administrations done in the last four years.
Look, Mexico had two of their biggest drug busts against the cartels just in the last month. The cartel up in Canada, and a lot of people don't talk about how bad Canada's gotten now, But up in Canada, they've had their biggest drug bust in their history of their country the week of the election. So we we got Canada's attention. Now we got Mexico's attention.
Now we sort of have China's attention now, you know, and President Trump knows how to get their attention. You have to have that's the first step. And so the fact that more has been done in the last four weeks and he hasn't taken office is more than the last four years combined.
Well, you know, the big takeaway in the last five years, the number I gave earlier, more people have died of fentanyl in the last five years than all 100 years of war for Americans. Another way to think of it right now is a 737 crashing every single day, literally every single day. And we know what happened when two 737s crashed over about a six-week period. They grounded the entire country.
Boeing Force worldwide. And we're not acting like that. But that's how many are dying. If we had seven plane crashes the next seven days, and I sure hope we don't, but seven plane crashes in the United States, it would be like, is it terrorism? Who's doing it? What's going on? we would have the whole response of the national government dealing with it.
But that's what's going to happen with signal. Over the next week here, we're going to have the equivalent of seven airplanes, 737s crashing, and very little is going to be talked about or done about it.
I think the last four years, the Biden administration and the Harris administration were afraid to take on fentanyl because that interrelated with illegal immigration. And for some reason, they just have not had any desire to tackle illegal immigration. And let me speak quickly to my friends on the left and in the middle. You can't talk about fentanyl without talking about illegal immigration.
And there are three reasons why there's a direct tie between illegal immigration and fentanyl distribution. Number one, people coming across illegally are either forced to bring fentanyl across or incentivized and said, we'll cut your cost of going across the border if you take the fentanyl and give this to the guy in the van. So that's number one.
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