Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) on Thursday lectured the mother of a fentanyl overdose victim. But unfortunately for Goldman, that mother was not interested in his political games.
At a House Homeland Security Committee hearing focused on the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Goldman challenged Josephine Dunn, an Arizona mother whose daughter died at 26 years old after mistakenly ingesting fentanyl.
At first, Goldman told Dunn she was being “used” by Republicans before belittling her knowledge and telling her she doesn’t understand “what a high-crime misdemeanor is and how it relates” to impeachment proceedings. Then, he mocked Second Amendment supporters before finally asking Dunn if she agrees the U.S. needs more Border Patrol agents.
“I disagree with that because Border Patrol is now being used to make sandwiches and to screen people and let them into our country. So I disagree with you,” Dunn responded.
Thinking he had caught her in a trap, Goldman responded, “So you don’t think it would be helpful to have more Border Patrol officers who are charged with stopping the fentanyl trade?”
“I would like the Border Patrol to be able to do the job that they were hired to do. Every Border Patrol officer that I have spoken to has told me that their hands are tied by this administration and Mr. Mayorkas,” she responded.
That’s when Dunn turned the tables on Goldman and asked him a question — something the New York Democrat clearly did not like.
“I’ve been to the border, sir. Have you? Have you?” Dunn asked.
“I’m asking the questions,” Goldman fired back.
Goldman then lectured Dunn again. He told her the “problem” with her response is that other Homeland Security officials have said the agency needs more personnel. He used the rest of his time to defend President Joe Biden and essentially blame Republicans for the border crisis.
As part of her testimony, Dunn told the committee that she believes Mayorkas is “partially responsible” for her daughter’s death.
“In my humble opinion, Mr Mayorkas is partially responsible for my daughters death,” she said. “His wide-open border policy allows massive quantities of poisonous fentanyl into our country.
“This is an invasion, a weapon of mass destruction, and unimaginable death and damage to our country and facilitated by Mr. Mayorkas. His participation in all of this [in] what I believe is a war is clearly intentional support of the enemy, which disqualifies him from his position. Our country deserves a secure border. We need to close the fentanyl super highway,” she added.
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