N.Y. Rep. Elise Stefanik Slammed for Denouncing Fentanyl Seizure

Consultant Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) was ripped on Twitter after describing the profitable seizure of fentanyl on the U.S.-Mexico border for instance of “Biden’s Border Disaster.”

“Over 800 kilos of fentanyl have been seized at our Southern Border in October,” Stefanik tweeted on Monday morning. “That is Biden’s Border Disaster.”

Stefanik was shortly mocked for blaming President Joe Biden‘s supposed disaster on the seizure. Most argued {that a} profitable seizure was not a “disaster,” whereas a minimum of one identified that former President Donald Trump—who Stefanik staunchly helps and has not accused of shepherding a border disaster—took to Twitter in 2019 to reward border brokers for “a job well done” after they made “the largest Fentanyl bust in our Nation’s historical past.”

“Feels like Biden is doing an amazing job,” tweeted person @jolefson50.

“Oh my G-d, Elise! You seized ALL OF THIS your self? Are you OK? I see why you are upset,” Consultant Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) tweeted. “***As a result of if Border Patrol was seizing this I am positive you would be praising Biden for a job effectively achieved.”

“Nice job, Brandon,” actor Bob Clendenin tweeted, referring to the “Let’s Go, Brandon” meme that has lately turning into a preferred anti-Biden rallying cry for some. “Good self-owning face plant, Trashy Stefanik.”

“Fentanyl seized underneath Trump: ‘job effectively achieved!'” podcast host Sawyer Hackett tweeted. “Fentanyl seized underneath Biden: ‘That is Biden’s Border Disaster.'”

“Would you like him to cease it or let in in?” former professional basketball participant Rex Chapman requested Stefanik. “Severe query.”

“Now the fentanyl cabinets at Goal are naked, and our children will rush downstairs on Christmas morning to search out no opioids of their stockings,” author Liz Dye joked. “Thanks for nothing, Joe!”

“In different information, Congresswoman suggests fentanyl ought to have been let in at border slightly than seized,” tweeted Michael Li, senior counsel for the Brennan Middle’s democracy program.

“You had plans for the fentanyl or what?” requested actor Jeffrey Wright.

“So….@RepStefanik helps fentanyl getting into the US illegally?” author Laura Anne Gilman tweeted. “Her personal phrases, people. Her personal phrases.”

“Republicans hold citing how a lot fentanyl the Biden administration is stopping from getting into the US,” blogger and musician Charles Johnson tweeted. “I assume they suppose it should not have been seized?”

Profitable seizures of the extremely addictive and lethal opioid did improve by 42 % in October, according to U.S. Customs and Border Safety (CBP). Seizures of different unlawful medicine like cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine have been down, with total drug seizures up by a modest 4 %.

CBP statistics point out {that a} complete of 1,044 kilos of fentanyl have been seized throughout October. That was down from the 1,212 kilos that have been seized in October 2020, whereas Trump was nonetheless in workplace.

Newsweek reached out to the Home Republican Convention, which Stefanik chairs, for remark.