A whistleblower’s report sent to Congress on Friday alleges that the Border Patrol’s chief medical officer Dr Alex Eastman tried to order fentanyl lollipops to bring to the UN General Assembly in Manhattan last September because for some fucking reason he thought – or at least claimed – they would be necessary to alleviate pain from wounds caused by a terrorist attack while he was accompanying agents to serve on the security detail for the annual summit, NBC News reports.
“Eastman spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York,” the whistleblowers wrote in the report. “Eastman claims that his possession of fentanyl lollipops was necessary in case a CBP operator might be injured, or in case the CBP Air and Marine Operations team encountered a patient in need.” Eastman never ended up acquiring the candy.
It’s obvious Eastman was full of shit but his actual motive beyond that is unclear. Worth asking is if maybe he wanted to somehow pretend he found them in his kids’ Halloween candy the next month and then go on Fox News to claim that whole bullshit panic fodder had been vindicated.