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Donald Trump, former president

“As president, Donald Trump “marshaled the full power of government to stop deadly drugs, opioids, and fentanyl from coming into our country. As a result, drug overdose deaths declined nationwide for the first time in nearly 30 years.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: The overdose death rate did drop in 2018. But this is a cherry-picked view of the trends on Trump’s watch. In the other three of his four years in office, the overdose death rate rose, including a record jump in 2020.