CLAIM: Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) said some migrant children are “used as drug trafficking mules” during Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate.
VERDICT: TRUE. A law enforcement official explained to Vance at an event last month that drug traffickers, when traveling by vehicle, make children play roles in their “story” in case authorities engage them.
Early on in the debate, Vance said that some migrant children “have been used as drug trafficking mules,” drawing one from the many indirect fact checks of the evening from the CBS News moderators, who served up a response for Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) to falsely claim Vance was lying.
“Governor, do you care to respond to any of those specific allegations, including that the Vice President is ‘letting in fentanyl’ and ‘using kids as drug mules,’ among other things,” Margaret Brennan asked Walz.
“Yeah, well, the drug mules is not true,” Walz claimed.
In reality, a law enforcement official explained to Vance in Georgia last month that traffickers will carry things like fishing rods in the car with children while they are transporting drugs and incorporate children into a false story as a decoy, as Breitbart News reported. They also discussed drugs being sold that are disguised as children’s candy.
It shows just how limited Walz’s appreciation of the criminal mind is, and how tuned he is to sporting the same faux ignorance comments we’ve heard from Mayorkas for four years. Lies, lies, lies.
And more lies