“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.”
What PolitiFact found
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.
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In short
Donald Trump (former president) made this claim around 6 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 January 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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