But they said there was no direct tie between that gang and Maduro. And unfortunately, The intelligence professionals who reached that conclusion got fired for not bending the product. So I don't deny that Maduro's a bad guy. I'm not denying. But the notion of that somehow, and the president would kind of conflate cocaine with fentanyl, for example, in the indictment of Maduro, fentanyl is not even mentioned. (04:11–04:17)
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