Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has leveled a bizarre new accusation against Joe Biden, suggesting that the president is trying to βkillβ MAGA voters with fentanyl sold by drug traffickers.
βIf you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl?β the controversial candidate pressed in an interview Friday with Jim Hoft, founder of the far-right news site Gateway Pundit.
The venture capitalist and βHillbilly Elegyβ author, who was endorsed earlier this month by Donald Trump, did not explain how Biden could accomplish such a horrifying aim. But he implied that drug traffickers crossing into the U.S. from Mexico were expressly not arrested so they could kill right-wing Republican voters.
βItβs really a border crisis that has gone all over the country,β said Vance.
βIt does look intentional,β he emphasized. βItβs like Joe Biden wants to punish the people who didnβt vote for him, and opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.β
In fact, the amount of cocaine and fentanyl seized at the border at eight Texas ports of entry increased βsignificantlyβ last year during the Biden administration, keeping massive amounts of the drugs out of the country, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
βMost notably [there was] a 1,066% increase in fentanyl and a 98% increase in cocaine seized,β the CBP reported.
Trump has encouraged his supporters to back Vance, who has no political experience, saying that he has the best chance of winning the general election. The primary is May 3.
While welcoming the former presidentβs endorsement, Vance in the past has reportedly called Trump an βidiotβ and βAmericaβs Hitler.β
Critics on Twitter were appalled by Vanceβs outrageous claim. They were also furious about the implication that MAGA voters are fentanyl users, while Democrats are apparently largely unaffected by the ridiculous Biden βplotβ Vance has cooked up.