A truck billboard slamming Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as “Fentanyl Mitch” was seen driving via Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday.
“Question: Why hasn’t Mitch McConnell done more to stop the Chinese fentanyl crisis in Kentucky?” the truck billboard’s display screen confirmed earlier than flashing: “Answer: Follow the money.”
Notably, the background of the textual content was crimson with the 5 yellow stars seen on the Chinese flag to the left of the message.
The different facet of the truck billboard featured a photograph of McConnell subsequent to the identify “Fentanyl Mitch” and the phrase “Cocaine” crossed out.
The letter “M” within the identify “Mitch” on the billboard was a blue M-labeled capsule just like the fentanyl-laced M30 capsules which are gentle blue in shade with an “M” imprinted on one facet and “30” on the opposite.
“Fentanyl Mitch” truck billboard seen in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, promoting Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new e-book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”
“Fentanyl Mitch” truck billboard seen in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, promoting Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new e-book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”
The billboard’s reference to “cocaine” harkens again to a 2018 Republican West Virginia Senate candidate named Don Blankenship who famously nicknamed the Kentucky senator “Cocaine Mitch” in a marketing campaign assault advert.
The billboard truck was an advert for Breitbart News Senior Contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new e-book, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
The truck was seen driving previous McConnell’s Louisville workplace and previous the Gene Snyder Federal Building in Louisville, Kentucky. It was additionally noticed driving via downtown Louisville on Main Street outdoors the well-known Louisville Slugger Museum.
“Fentanyl Mitch” truck billboard seen in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, promoting Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new e-book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”
“Fentanyl Mitch” truck billboard seen in Louisville, Kentucky, on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, promoting Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer’s new e-book “Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.”
In Blood Money, Schweizer explains the monetary ties that McConnell has to China via his spouse Elaine Chao’s household and particularly via his father-in-law’s profitable transport enterprise that has sturdy monetary ties to the Chinese authorities.
Schweizer writes in Blood Money:
The Chao household runs a global transport enterprise that’s closely depending on the nice graces of the Chinese authorities. The household companies, Foremost Group and its subsidiaries, do appreciable work with a number of the corporations named on this e-book, together with Hutchison Port Holdings, which operates ports world wide and as we’ve proven, has been the topic of concern for many years about smuggling actions.
As Breitbart News reported:
Hutchison enjoys a detailed working relationship with the Chinese authorities and army whereas conducting important enterprise with the Chao household companies, Schweizer paperwork in his e-book. He additionally reveals that the corporate has deep ties with Chinese organized crime. And Hutchison has been flagged by U.S. officers for issues with smuggling weapons and different prohibited objects, in accordance with U.S. authorities reports he cites.
In Mexico, Hutchison controls and operates the worldwide terminals in Manzanillo and Puerto de Lazaro Cardenas. U.S. officers consider 90 % of fentanyl precursors arriving in Mexico from China come via Manzanillo alone, Schweizer writes. And the fentanyl produced there leads to American communities.
Schweizer notes in Blood Money that these monetary connections might current a possible battle of curiosity for McConnell that will stop him from severely confronting China’s complicity within the fentanyl crisis.
“The family’s dependence on Beijing’s favor for the operation of their business is real. Were Senator McConnell to take action that angered the Chinese leadership, they could effectively destroy the Chao family business overnight,” Schweizer writes.
Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans is available now in hardcover, book, and audiobook.
You can observe Alana Mastrangelo on Facebook and X/Twitter at @ARmastrangelo, and on Instagram.
More Stories
‘Most Important Day in The History of Our Country’
International Court Seeks Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Hamas Leaders
Judge Says Closing Arguments in Trump’s Hush Money Trial Will Be Next Week
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Granted Right to Appeal Extradition
Judge Delivers Ruling On New Voting Rulebook In Arizona