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# President Trump Blamed Criminals, Drug Companies, Mexico and China for the Opioid Crisis

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## Video: President Trump Blamed Criminals, Drug Companies, Mexico and China for the Opioid Crisis

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_Published 2017-10-26. President Trump blamed hardened criminals, pharmaceutical companies, Mexico and China for the opioid crisis in a White House address Thursday, reaching for the same targets he's long used for other problems._


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## Transcript

We must stop the flow of all types of illegal drugs into our communities. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] For too long dangerous criminal cartels have been allowed to infiltrate and spread throughout our nation. An astonishing 90 % of the heroin in America comes from south of the border where we will be building a wall which will greatly help in this problem. I am also pleased to report that for the first time the Department of Justice, has indicated major Chinese drug traffickers. For the strip, and they have really put very very strong clamps on them, they even died at them. The drug traffickers for distributing phetenol into the United States.

The justice to [ UNKNOWN ] is aggressively and very vergantly pursuing those who illegally prescribe and traffic on opiors, both in our communities And on the internet. And I will be looking at the potential of the federal government bringing major lawsuits against bad actors. What they have and what they're doing to our people is unheard of. We will be bringing some very major lawsuits against people and against companies that are hurting our people.

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