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Washington Post 'mystified' by drop in fentanyl seizures at US-Mexico border
The Post Millennial ^ | 6/2/25 | staff

Posted on 06/02/2025 9:25:10 AM PDT by CFW

The Washington Post has said that a massive drop in fentanyl seizures at the southern border is "mysterious" and that it is a "more complex" story than one would think after President Donald Trump has made it a point to crack down on border security as well as fentanyl trafficking into the US.

The outlet suggested that the Trump administration's policies, such as threatening tariffs on China as well as Mexico to curb fentanyl, could have little to do with the drop in fentanyl, and claimed, "New data suggest a more complex story."

This year, there has been a marked decrease in fentanyl seizures at the border, with a decrease also being shown before Trump took office.

A White House spokesman said that the drop in the seizures is “thanks to President Trump’s policies empowering law enforcement officials to dismantle drug trafficking networks," but the Post countered this, saying "the decline started before Trump took office in January."

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: border; borderwall; drugs; fentanyl; media; smuggling; trump
Whatever the reason might be, it certainly has nothing to do with Trump and his border policies. If it did then that might mean Trump is doing something right and we certainly can't have that!

TDS is strong and getting stronger at WaPo.

1 posted on 06/02/2025 9:25:10 AM PDT by CFW
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To: CFW

They can still get all they need coming in through Canaduh.


2 posted on 06/02/2025 9:28:54 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: CFW
The outlet suggested that the Trump administration's policies, such as threatening tariffs on China as well as Mexico to curb fentanyl, could have little to do with the drop in fentanyl,

They're an outlet all right. Cheeky of them.

3 posted on 06/02/2025 9:31:50 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: CFW

“Let’s have a meeting about arranging some kind of investigation on the drop of fentanyl seizures.
Our collective minds are so very ‘Boggled’ on this complex topic!!”


4 posted on 06/02/2025 9:33:24 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: CFW

Complex = “we don’t want to say that Republican policies work to fix the massive screwups resulting from Democrat policies.”


5 posted on 06/02/2025 9:48:01 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: CFW

Inflation is down. That is a more complex story.

DOGE, cuts in regulations and bureaucracy are popular. That is a more complex story.


6 posted on 06/02/2025 9:50:15 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: CFW

I’m surprised the WaPo didn’t spin this as an economic downturn caused by Trump.


7 posted on 06/02/2025 9:51:28 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: CFW

The person who runs the Washington Post is Hitler and the scum who work there are stupid and or fascists.

What do you need to know beyond that?

That ‘editors’ are on a first name basis with DNC war room ‘distributors of news packets’? That they all knew people who worked in the White House but NEVER realized Biden was unfit to do the job? That they lied about his condition? That they play stenographers to disgruntled liberal FBI and CIA agents - then call it ‘reporting’... that they’re biased and proud of it? Really, we can all guess at why they’re stupid. Let’s not explain the border issue... they wouldn’t understand it anyhow.


8 posted on 06/02/2025 9:53:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
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To: CFW
Does anyone read the WaPo?
9 posted on 06/02/2025 10:03:43 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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Does anyone read the WaPo?“

There is a core group of delusional leftist a-holes who do. It is the CNN/MSNBC demo. They are immune to any truth seeping into their crippled brains.


10 posted on 06/02/2025 10:09:11 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: CFW

The Wapo’s next big investigation will be to answer the question we are all waiting to have answered:
Is the moon made of green cheese or not?


11 posted on 06/02/2025 10:54:01 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The topic was U.S.-Mexico border.


12 posted on 06/02/2025 11:27:37 AM PDT by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore.)
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And I said that if fentanyl coming across the Mexican border is coming in smaller amounts, the WaPos can always get it from the fentanyl coming in across the Canadian border.


13 posted on 06/02/2025 12:10:42 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Sorry this is all coming at once, although it really helps to have it all laid out in one sitting. Not sorry I fell asleep in the recliner. Glad I'd finished my snack first. :^) Had an appointment earlier in the day in the city, and used that as a pretext to do some shopping on a nice quiet Tuesday.

14 posted on 06/02/2025 11:25:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The best thing about a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.)
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Maybe people working at the Washington Post are so stupid they didn't know it was illegals and cartel members who were bringing fentanyl across the border?

Or maybe democrat war room guys didn't include this in their 'news packets' because even THEY didn't think Washington Post 'journalists' were this stupid.

Yep, it's a mystery... was Joe Biden 'sharp as a tack'? Or did 'journalists' sell out?

It's all a mystery.../s

15 posted on 06/03/2025 10:02:44 AM PDT by GOPJ (What if stupidity isn’t about intelligence at all, but about surrendering the will to think?Bonhoeff)
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