Trump's Big CON: He Is Clueless, New Hampshire is a ‘Drug-Infested Den' Edition

"'I won in New Hampshire because New Hampshire is a drug-infested den,' President Trump told Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in a phone call in January.

The remark came in the course of an exchange in which Trump blamed 'drug lords in Mexico' for “sending drugs” to places like New Hampshire. 'We are becoming a drug-addicted nation and most the drugs are coming from Mexico or certainly from the southern border,' Trump added.

But in New Hampshire at least, Mexican drugs are only part of the story. The state does indeed have a serious drug problem — in 2015, New Hampshire was second only to West Virginia in its rate of drug overdose deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

But the drugs driving that spike are primarily produced not in Mexico, but in China. The synthetic opioid fentanyl and its derivatives are now the leading cause of drug overdose deaths in New Hampshire, according to official state statistics. . .

Fentanyl made in China is shipped via the U.S. Postal Service to Canada, Mexico and directly to the United States. At the risk of stating the obvious, a wall across the Mexican border — the subject of Trump's conversation with Peña Nieto — isn't going to do much to stop drugs shipped from China.

Beyond that, writing off an entire state as a 'drug-infested den' isn't likely to lead to smart policies to reduce the toll of opioids there. "

Read the Washington Post, Trump called New Hampshire a ‘drug-infested den.’ Here’s what’s really going on there.

Once again, The Donald shows how incredibly ignorant he is. 

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