What Will Sara Carter of Fox News Bring as “Drug Czar”? – Filter Magazine
On April 1st, 2025 Alexander Lekhtman published an article in Filter on the appointment of the new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), or “drug czar”, former Fox News contributor Sara Carter. Lekhtman quotes former SSDP board member Eric Sterling, who shares his thoughts on her appointment,
“’She has been a journalist and blogger who has done stories early in her career about Mexican drug trafficking cartels,’ Sterling told Filter of Carter, ‘but she has zero experience or qualification for coordinating at the highest levels complex federal agencies; zero experience managing agencies of any kind and zero subject-matter expertise regarding drugs or law enforcement. It is a measure of how unimportant real qualifications are for the Trump administration.’
‘She brings a certain qualification by virtue of holding the office to strengthen false claims regarding the role of immigrants and fentanyl smuggling,’ Sterling said. He noted that federal government data show the vast majority of fentanyl is smuggled into the US through legal ports of entry by US citizens—not by undocumented immigrants.
‘[But] when the [drug czar] then makes a statement or a finding before a congressional committee that these things are how the president says they are, it gives the authority to amplify his message even if it’s inaccurate,’ Sterling noted.”
