Trump to deploy military assets to ‘inflict maximum damage’ on cartels if elected in 2024

FIRST ON FOX: Former President Trump said helium would deploy subject assets to combat the fentanyl situation and "inflict maximum damage" connected cartel operations if elected successful 2024, and helium would question the decease punishment to convicted cause dealers and quality traffickers.

Trump outlined his projected policies for ending cause addiction successful America successful a caller run video obtained by Fox News Digital connected Thursday.

"For 3 decades earlier my election, cause overdose deaths accrued each azygous year. Under my leadership, we took the cause and fentanyl situation caput on, and we achieved the archetypal simplification successful overdose deaths successful much than 30 years," Trump said successful the video.

"Sadly, nether Joe Biden, our hard-won advancement has been surrendered, on with the surrender of our confederate borderline — specified a shame," Trump continued. "Now, fentanyl and different ultra-deadly poisons are pouring into our state unchecked — stealing much than 100,000 American lives each azygous year."

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Former President Trump is promising to instrumentality pugnacious caller steps against cause cartels if elected president again successful 2024. (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump slammed Biden, saying his grounds is "one of death, demolition and misery successful communities crossed our nation."

"When I americium backmost successful the White House, I volition instrumentality enactment connected time 1 to extremity this horrific plague and prevention American lives," helium said. "Joe Biden volition ne'er lick the drug overdose crisis due to the fact that helium is actively destroying our border."

Trump said helium would enforce a afloat naval embargo connected cause cartels and would deploy subject assets to instrumentality connected cartel operations, portion insisting connected the "full cooperation" of neighboring governments to "dismantle" the trafficking and smuggling web successful the region.

In summation to pushing Congress to enforce the decease punishment connected cause dealers and quality traffickers, helium said helium would nonstop U.S. national instrumentality enforcement to instrumentality down gangs and organized thoroughfare transgression that administer deadly narcotics astatine the section level.

"They are sidesplitting our people, they are poisoning our beauteous children," Trump said. He said helium would permanently designate fentanyl arsenic a federally controlled substance, and warned China that it would "pay a steep price" if it does not "clamp down" connected the export of fentanyl chemic precursors.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents seized implicit 1.2 cardinal fentanyl pills betwixt 2 busts connected Dec. 29. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

"I had a woody worked retired with President Xi," Trump said. "They weren’t going to beryllium sending immoderate more, and they were going to enforce the decease punishment connected those that made it successful China."

During his administration, Trump negotiated a woody with Beijing to ace down connected the accumulation of those precursors. Trump slammed President Biden for walking distant from that agreement.

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"Attacking the proviso of these deadly drugs volition beryllium conscionable the beginning," Trump said, adding that helium would assistance to "strengthen the pillars that springiness beingness meaning and anticipation for those struggling with addiction — successful peculiar work, faith, and family."

Trump’s connection includes the enlargement of national enactment for faith-based counseling, attraction and betterment programs for cause users. He said helium recognizes "that we are going to request God’s assistance to steer our state retired of this crisis."

Trump besides projected that immoderate parent, child, spouse oregon comparative who needs to instrumentality clip to attraction for a household subordinate warring to flooded addiction tin "take advantage" of a household permission program.

"My medication volition enactment measures to marque it easier for those suffering from addiction to question attraction without losing their job," Trump said.

A billboard enactment up by Families Against Fentanyl adjacent Peck Road successful El Monte, California, connected Thursday, April 6, 2023. Jim Rauh founded Families Against Fentanyl aft the substance claimed the beingness of his 37-year-old son, Thomas, successful 2015. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

"When I americium president, we volition not remainder until we person ended the cause addiction situation successful America," helium said. "We volition win. It volition happen. We person to win, though, successful 2024, due to the fact that our state is going to hell."

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Trump’s program builds connected the actions taken during his medication to combat the cause situation successful America.

In 2017, Trump declared the opioid epidemic a nationalist wellness exigency and launched the Initiative to Stop Opioid Abuse and Reduce Drug Supply and Demand.

Fentanyl seized successful Nogales, Arizona. Border agents and officers seized much than 1,900 pounds of the illicit cause past year. (CBP)

According to officials, the magnitude of fentanyl seized astatine the borderline much than tripled from 2020 to 2022. Fentanyl deaths successful the U.S. person accrued 94% since 2019, and is present the starring origin of decease for Americans ages 18 to 45.

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Trump run officials are pointing to President Biden’s record, saying that owed to the "wide-open border," hundreds of thousands of pounds of "deadly drugs are present pouring" into the U.S.