“New Hampshire has “a worse drug problem per capita than any other state.”
Donald Trump
former president and 2024 presidential candidate. Claim dated 11 Nov 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Preliminary 2022 data from the CDC and final 2021 data placed West Virginia at the top of the list. New Hampshire was in the middle of states.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president and 2024 presidential candidate) made this claim around 11 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 November 2023, 4 days later. Its rating was “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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