Scott Bessent Reveals ‘Personal’ Impact of Fentanyl Crisis
The Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, revealed his personal ties to the American fentanyl crisis in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, promising to “come” from foreign terrorist organizations (FTO) behind tragic deaths.
Speaking with the head of the Breitbart News Washington office, Matthew Boyle, on Wednesday morning policy event In Washington, DC, Bessent said that he had died two friends because of fentanyl and pleaded to “erase” Chinese criminal groups that provide “precursors” to the mortal poison.
“The Chinese, they sell precursor drugs for fentanyl. If I hear the” opium war “, we did not create the opium wars, and they were able to deactivate the supply of rare land magnets very quickly.” I had two richest friends in America, Greenwich, Connecticut, Die fentanyl. “
He added: “Imagine what we [would be] Do if there was a terrorist organization that killed 200,000 Americans per year. What would we do to them? We would wipe them.
The Treasury Ministry has already sparked a massive “pressure campaign” on the cartels, with Bessent developer Breitbart News in April that the Office for the Control of Foreign Assets of his Department (OFAC) sanctioned the leaders and affiliates of the Mexican FTO, including the Beltran Leyva Organization (Blo) and the Nueva Familia Michoacana (LNFM), for their roles in the smuggling of drugs in the United States in the United States.
“We declared the FTOS cartels – foreign terrorist organizations – and we come for them,” added Bessent on Wednesday.
Continuing to deplore families and the future of fentanyl victims are “destroyed” by the current crisis, the secretary reiterated how close he was.
“It’s very personal for me because, as I said, I had two children whom I watched to grow.”
Olivia Rondeau is a Breitbart News political journalist based in Washington, DC. Find it X / Twitter And Instagram.
