China Is Selling Mexican Drug Cartels ‘Industrial Pill Press Equipment’ To Manufacture Fentanyl, DHS Official Says

China is selling “industrial pill press equipment” used to turn powdered fentanyl into pills to Mexican cartels, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official’s testimony Wednesday.

Over 70,000 people died of drug overdoses involving fentanyl in the United States in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Matthew Millhollin, assistant director with DHS’ Homeland Security Investigations, (HSI) briefed Senate members on what steps DHS is taking to combat the illicit fentanyl trade.

Millhollin said the Mexican cartels, using chemicals obtained from China, produce fentanyl-laced pills on an industrial scale to be smuggled to the United States.

“In order to manufacture these pills, Mexican cartels require industrial pill press equipment to turn powdered fentanyl into pill form. The Mexican cartels are purchasing these pill presses directly from Chinese manufacturers who are producing the equipment specifically for illicit activity,” said Millhollin during the testimony.

“Moreover, as Mexican Cartels have taken over fentanyl production and operate on an industrial scale, they are procuring precursor chemicals from China and synthesizing these chemicals in Mexico to produce fentanyl,” said Millhollin during the testimony.

In April, during a visit with Mexican government officials, China denied their involvement in the trafficking of fentanyl to Mexico and blamed the problem on the United States, according to an ABC News report.

“The pill presses that are used to press that finished fentanyl into pills are coming in from China exclusively. We just seized over...

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How Many Times Can You Stab People Before a Soros DA Locks You Up?

As many times as they like until they finally kill someone.

How many roads must a man walk down before he can call himself a man? How many times can a psychotic woman stab people before a Soros DA locks her up? The short answer: as many as she likes until someone dies.

Welcome to the grand experiment in billionaires like Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, George Soros or Steven Spielberg selecting pro-crime prosecutors who let monsters roam the streets until they kill someone.

Forget just legalizing shoplifting, cases like this show they legalized stabbing people.

Enjoy George Gascon’s LA. Try not to get stabbed. And if you do, remember that the stabber won’t even get a slap on the wrist, they’ll be set loose in a diversion program.

Jade Simone Brookfield’s first encounter with Los Angeles police happened in the early spring of 2020, during Gascon’s first year in office. Brookfield was arrested for attempted murder after she stabbed a woman in the chest with a knife, puncturing her lung.

Prosecution of the crime was delayed into 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. By then, the court reduced Brookfield’s charges to assault with a deadly weapon — still a felony charge that counts as one “strike” under California’s Three Strikes law — and prosecutors agreed to a deal where Brookfield was given mental health diversion instead of jail time.

A source said that Brookfield absconded and was initially terminated from the diversion program. However, she was permitted to re-enlist in diversion and was given another chance.

So Brookfield, knowing a good thing when she saw one, kept right on stabbing people.

In September 2021, Brookfield was arrested for battery of a peace officer. She was again given a mental health diversion and Gascon’s office dismissed the case.

Three months later in December, Brookfield was arrested for a third time for making criminal threats after she allegedly assaulted a man, pulled out two knives and threatened to kill him. Despite her known record of violent assault, prosecutors rejected the case because of a lack of evidence, according to Gascon’s office.

Brookfield remained in the mental health diversion program, but it does not seem to have helped her. In March of this year, Brookfield was arrested for a fourth time for another felony assault with knife. She allegedly swung a knife several times at a bus driver who missed her exit, according to law enforcement sources.

Three strikes and you’re out was a horrible racist policy. This is so much better. It’s unfair not to let criminals continue committing horrifying crimes.

Despite her criminal history, and despite this arrest being a blatant violation of her diversion, Brookfield was inexplicably ordered released from custody with an ankle monitor, a decision that proved to have deadly consequences.

Just weeks after her release for a second assault with a deadly weapon arrest, Brookfield was arrested and charged in Banner’s death.

Banner, a father of two young girls, was killed with a knife.

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Russia Hoaxers Clapper, Brennan Will Answer To Weaponization Committee For Letter Calling Hunter Biden Laptop ‘Disinfo’

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan will sit for transcribed interviews.

A pair of Russiagate all-stars will testify before the House Weaponization Committee this month over signing the infamous 2020 letter in which former intelligence officials claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was an instrument of Kremlin disinformation.

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan will sit for transcribed interviews after House Republicans revealed Secretary of State Antony Blinken was behind the operation to discredit the laptop. Brennan will testify next week on May 11 and Clapper will appear before lawmakers on May 17, according to a source familiar with arrangements.

Weeks before the 2020 election, 51 former intelligence officials signed a letter published in Politico that smeared blockbuster stories sourced to an abandoned Delaware laptop as a Russian interference campaign. Emails recovered from the laptop hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden implicate President Joe Biden in global influence peddling schemes that appear to be at the center of Hunter’s potentially criminal enterprises.

“If we are right,” they wrote, “this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly that Americans need to be aware of this.”

Former Vice President Biden exploited the fabricated narrative on the presidential debate stage, using the letter to dismiss the allegations of corruption that surfaced from the computer. Biden perpetuated the claim of Kremlin interference despite the FBI, the Department of Justice, then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, and then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo debunking the popular Democrat talking point before the prime-time event.

Clapper defended attaching his signature to the letter last fall in an interview with New York Magazine.

“Clapper was not pleased to be asked about the letter two years after its release,” the magazine reported.

“What are you trying to get me to say, that I screwed up and I shouldn’t have signed the letter? I’m not going to say that,” Clapper told the paper. “As far as I was concerned, we were waving the yellow flag. At the time, it was fishy to me. It had the characteristics of a Russian disinformation campaign.”

In February, Clapper accused Politico of misleading the public about the letter published in full.

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“There was message distortion,” Clapper told The Washington Post. “All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said.”

The letter’s signatories are still conducting damage control three years later as congressional Republicans probe the origins of the letter. On Tuesday, following the news that Blinken was involved in the letter’s creation, Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Chuck Grassley of Iowa demanded Blinken turn over his communications with Hunter Biden and accused the secretary of state of lying to Congress, a federal crime.

“It is now evident that your apparent willingness to deceive the public continued through December 2020 when you failed to tell the whole truth to congressional investigators about your contacts with Hunter Biden,” the senators wrote.

New allegations of presidential corruption surfaced Wednesday when Grassley joined House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky in sending a subpoena to the FBI for documents related to a criminal scheme involving Joe Biden and...