WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today questioned President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Terrance Cole. Prior to his nomination, Cole had worked for the DEA for over two decades, including service in Mexico and Colombia.

On a photo of tattoos on the hand of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal immigrant and suspected MS-13 gang member who has been deported to El Salvador by the Trump Administration:

• GRAHAM: “Based on your time as a DEA agent in the field, particularly in Mexico, these tattoos are consistent with MS-13 associations?”
• COLE: “Yes sir, that’s correct.” https://youtu.be/r0RpPl815n4?si=lorAU6DL7EkMNuzC&t=305

On China’s role in the fentanyl poisoning crisis:

• GRAHAM: “Mr. Cole, you mentioned something that most Americans need to pay more attention to. Three hundred Americans… die every day from fentanyl poisoning?”
• COLE: “Yes sir.
• GRAHAM: “And fentanyl comes across the U.S.-Mexico border?
• COLE: “Yes that’s correct.”
• GRAHAM: “The precursors to fentanyl come from what country, mainly?”
• COLE: “From China.”
• GRAHAM: “Do you agree that China has done very little to combat the precursor problem that exists in China?
• COLE: “I would agree. Yes sir.”
• GRAHAM: “Do you believe that China is complicit in the fentanyl poisoning of America?”
• COLE: “Yes, I do.” https://youtu.be/r0RpPl815n4?si=AGo4Q0cefXj21VLZ&t=9

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