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Kash Patel: “We are charging these businesses and enterprises, not just…”

Featuring: Kash Patel, Republican | Former Chief of Staff to the Acting U.S. Secretary of Defense | National

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Published | Video Starts at 07:33

In fact, this month in Cincinnati, we announced groundbreaking charges aimed at the individuals and businesses responsible for flooding these opioids and their precursors and cutting agents into the streets of America. And for the first time that I can remember, We are charging these businesses and enterprises, not just in America, but in mainland China. and seizing their operational necessity to have money by seizing their cryptocurrency wallets. We're also equally important to protecting the homeland. We know we have a no fail mission. (07:33–07:39)

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Asserts that businesses in mainland China are being charged for their role in opioid distribution.

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