‘You Don’t Get To Do That’: Chris Cuomo Hammers Mexico’s President Over Blaming US For Fentanyl Epidemic

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo criticized Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday for blaming America for its fentanyl crisis despite her country and government’s role in the epidemic.

Sheinbaum ended up caving on Monday to deploy 10,000 National Guard soldiers to Mexico’s northern border to assist in stemming the flow of fentanyl after threatening retaliation over the weekend to President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on Mexican imports. Cuomo, on “CUOMO,” argued Sheinbaum’s government is enabling the cartels to continue drug trafficking.

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“We need Mexico to do more. Why? Because fentanyl deaths increase every year because of them. Seventy percent of the 100,000-plus overdoses in America last year were fentanyl. It’s coming from there primarily,” Cuomo said. “And when not killing us with drugs, the cartels are ruining lives with human trafficking. In 2018, they made $500 million. Four years later, they made $13 billion selling people. All of this on top of the obvious ill, right? The Mexican government allowing their country to be a pass-through for their own and every other country.”

“You know who knows all this but doesn’t own it and mocks our concerns? President Claudia Sheinbaum. Mexico is identified by every monitoring outfit as among the most corrupt. She knows this. But the Mexican president says it’s insulting to suggest they tolerate cartels,” he continued. “Well, then what would her suggestion be? She speaks more harshly about the United States than the cartels. She blames us for our drug problem instead of the cartels. Now, look, we all know that if there’s no demand, there’s no supply. But you don’t get to argue that addiction is about demand when you’re flooding us with supply. You don’t get to do that.”