Vance Reveals What Trump Would Do To Stop Fentanyl 

Senator JD Vance (R-OH) stated in an interview over the weekend that if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is re-elected this fall, his administration is prepared to consider a full-scale trade war with communist China to halt the flow of fentanyl into the United States.

Vance made these comments during a Sunday appearance on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with Margaret Brennan. His remarks come amid a worsening fentanyl crisis that has claimed hundreds of thousands of American lives in recent years, a situation exacerbated under the Biden-Harris Administration.

Vance, who is Trump’s running mate, insisted that he views China as an adversary and competitor.

“I think they’re both and I think that what we want to do here is build the kind of international order where we can check China. We don’t want to go to war with China, but certainly they’re an adversary,” Vance said. “For example, the Chinese know that they’re manufacturing tons of fentanyl, they’re letting come into our country,” he said. “Kamala Harris has done nothing about this. She should apply diplomatic and economic leverage over the Chinese to stop manufacturing this fentanyl, which then comes into the Mexican drug cartels, which they then ship into our country.”

.@JDVance suggests that the U.S. should use economic leverage against China to stop its manufacturing of fentanyl: "You walk into Beijing, you talk to Xi Jinping, and you say, your entire economy is going to collapse unless you get access to American markets. You need to take… pic.twitter.com/fOpmyHIzO9

— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) August 11, 2024

Vance noted that there would be fewer people dying if Harris had pressured China to stop the flow of fentanyl into the country. The

“I think you walk into Beijing, you talk to Xi Jinping, and you say, ‘your entire economy is going to collapse unless you get access to American markets. You need to take this fentanyl seriously or we are going to impose serious tariffs and economic penalties for not following our laws and not helping us stem the flow of this deadly poison,’” Vance said.

The 2024 vice presidential candidate insisted that there would be no blowback from going into a trade war with China.

Kamala Harris isn’t running a presidential campaign. She’s producing a movie. Everything is scripted everywhere she goes.

She’s fundamentally a fake person who changes her tune depending on what audience she’s in front of. pic.twitter.com/HrCKF9XXSM

— JD Vance (@JDVance) August 11, 2024

“I think that we have a powerful economy, Margaret, with the best workers in the entire world. If we need to fight a trade war with the Chinese, we will fight it and we will win it, but we cannot do what Kamala Harris has done, which is be so terrified of using the economic power that we have that she’s not even willing to stop the flow of this deadly poison coming into our country,” Vance added.

JD Vance just rope-a-doped Dana Bash

Incredible

CNN aint built for this pic.twitter.com/N5EMvD9s2V

— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 11, 2024