In STAT News, Lev Facher notes Carter’s lack of any conventional qualifications for the role but describes how in recent years, her commentary has been “staunchly pro-Trump”—emphasizing the border and what she sees as the Biden administration’s failures around undocumented immigration and drug trafficking. She has also interviewed Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar,” on her podcast—dubbing him “our new Border God!”

Carter has frequently used her website to amplify fearmongering and conspiracy-laden stories about fentanyl—including of migrants arriving at the border addicted to fentanyl; school children eating gummy bears “laced with apparent fentanyl;” the Chinese Communist Party paying fentanyl producers; and one story titled, “Blood Money: New book shows how Bidens received $5M from Chinese criminal gang leader responsible for fentanyl pipeline to US.”

On cannabis, meanwhile, Carter has made mixed statements, asMarijuana Moment reports.

She’s said that “I don’t have any problem if it’s legalized and it’s monitored,” although, “I may have my own issues of how I feel about that.” She meanwhile described medical cannabis as “a fantastic way of handling … the illness and the side effects of the medication” for “people with cancer and other illnesses.”

Yet she has also reported on illicit cannabis growing operations, linking them to organized trafficking groups and the Chinese government, and calling for a crackdown.