A top White House official said Sunday that he was “appalled” by the comments of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in the murderous Mexican drug lord’s sit-down interview with actor Sean Penn.
“I was appalled by his bragging … about an epidemic that’s sweeping this country on heroin addiction,” Denis McDonough, the White House Chief of Staff, said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Sean Penn meeting El Chapo in Mexico.Rolling Stone “I was appalled by his bragging to the interviewers in Rolling Stone that he moves more heroin than anyone in the world.”
On Saturday, the magazine published a lengthy first-person article written by Penn, who traveled to a remote location in Mexico in September to interview the fugitive drug kingpin of the Sinaloa cartel.
“I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana than anybody else in the world,” El Chapo boasted to Penn. “I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks and boats.”
The controversial article comes just a day after Mexican authorities recaptured El Chapo after he escaped from a maximum-security prison in July.
It was his second time ditching the jail house — as he was infamously smuggled out of a different prison by two employees who wheeled him out in a laundry basket in 2001.
