Dr. Robert Marbut
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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.
Thank you so very much for having on. And more importantly, thank you for caring about the fentanyl crisis. Really appreciate it.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.