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CDC Warning: Drug 100X Worse Than Fentanyl Has Hit America, Deaths Rise Over 700 Percent | The Gateway Pundit

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CDC Warning: Drug 100X Worse Than Fentanyl Has Hit America, Deaths Rise Over 700 Percent

One of the biggest campaign promises that helped propel President-elect Donald Trump to his Election Day victory involves America’s porous borders.

Of the myriad of issues that an open border presents, one of the most ominous and destructive issues it presents is the unchecked flow of deadly drugs into the country.

One of the chief scourges amid that broader drug crisis? Fentanyl.

According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, fentanyl is “about 100 times more potent” than morphine, and the illicit drug also appears “to be the primary driver of the increase in total drug overdose deaths” in America.

It’s no joke.

And yet, fentanyl has almost become a joke compared to a new, far deadlier drug that is creeping into America.

“Last year, nearly 70% of all U.S. overdose deaths were attributed to illegally manufactured fentanyls (IMFs),” Fox News reported. “One of those was carfentanil, an altered version of fentanyl that is said to be 100 times more potent, the CDC warned.”

The outlet, citing the CDC’s State Unintentional Drug Overdose Reporting System, ominously adds: “Deaths from carfentanil rose by more than 700% in the past year, according to the same source — there were 29 deadly overdoses between January and June 2023, and 238 in that same time frame in 2024.”

The drug, which first burst onto the scene in 2016 before going dormant for a while, could be even deadlier than that, given that not all deaths have been reported on yet.

Fox noted that the relative ease of mass production has made carfentanil a resurgent and popular choice when it comes to drug use.

And that only further complicates Trump’s unenviable task of tackling America’s opioid crisis.

Whereas incumbent President Joe Biden has taken a more indirect approach to tackling the issue, Trump appears dead-set on tackling the issue head-on.

As the president-elect continues to search for his ideal DEA pick, Trump has made no secret of the fact that both the border crisis and the vicious flow of drugs that it entails must be addressed.

After all, carfentanil is hardly the only horror story to emerge from people playing Dr. Frankenstein with fentanyl pills.

As recently as May of 2023, horrific video emerged from major American metropolitan cities, like Philadelphia, grappling with a fentanyl abomination referred to as “tranq.”

That drug cocktail involves mixing fentanyl with an animal sedative.

Trump will officially be inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2025, and anyone who’s been tragically affected by America’s opioid crisis will likely be looking forward to it.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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“Show No Mercy”: Trump’s Campaign Pledge To Annihilate Mexican Cartels Goes Viral | ZeroHedge

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Now, as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, Mexican cartels, Chinese chemical companies, money laundering networks across North America, and US-based drug dealers are on notice that the boom times under the Biden-Harris regime’s open southern border policies will soon be coming to an end.

If Trump follows through with his 2023 campaign promise to “wage war” against Mexican drug cartels, then Americans could expect an end to the horrific 100,000 US drug death overdose crisis per year caused by fentanyl and other drugs – much of which starts as precursor chemicals shipped from China, cooked into fentanyl by Mexican cartels, then flooded in the Lower 48.

Here’s Trump’s action plan to destroy the cartels:

  • Restore all Trump border policies and fully secure border
  • Deploy all necessary military assets, including the U.S. Navy, to impose a full naval embargo on the cartels, to ensure they cannot use our region’s waters to traffic illicit drugs to the U.S.
  • Order the Department of Defense to make appropriate use of special forces, cyber warfare, and other covert and overt actions to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership, infrastructure, and operations
  • Designate the major drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations
  • Cut off the cartels’ access to the global financial system
  • Get full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the cartels, or else fully expose the bribes and corruption that protect these criminal networks
  • Ask Congress to ensure drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty

Trump’s team released this video in December 2023 titled “President Donald J. Trump Declares War on Cartels.” 

Now the question arises: Does the Trump-Vance team still hold these strong cartel-busting views after announcing them nearly a year ago?

Absolutely…

Here’s JD Vance on the campaign trail in late October: “On behalf of every American who has lost a loved one due to this border crisis, we’re going to kick some cartel ass when President Donald J. Trump takes office.”

Not too long ago, Trump announced financial armageddon for Mexican cartels: “I’m announcing that for the first time under my administration, we are seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels and we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime.”

At the Republican National Convention, Tom Homan, who served as the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement between 2017 and 2018, told Mexican cartels: “You’re done.”

Americans are desperately hoping for closed borders and a resolution to this drug death chaos and illegal alien invasion. Trump’s historic election sweep shows just that. Now get to work, Mr. President.

In our view, the Trump team next year could start by disrupting the financial networks – or command and control centers – of cartels. Trump already mentioned seizing assets, but what’s rarely mentioned is the possibility of sanctioning Mexican banks.

Source: “Show No Mercy”: Trump’s Campaign Pledge To Annihilate Mexican Cartels Goes Viral