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9 Oct 2019 Conversations with Tyler Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap

“I will give Trump credit for making the fentanyl discussion part of his trade war.”

— Ben Westhoff

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Ben Westhoff
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9 Oct 2019
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Has President Trump had any success in shutting down the supply of fentanyl from China? I will give Trump credit for making the fentanyl discussion part of his trade war. He got China to ban all of the fentanyl analogs, which became effective a few months ago. He’s kind of used fentanyl as sort of a carrot and a stick to varying degrees of success, but — Do we know yet if that’s mattered?…

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