“The official count of drug overdose deaths is a “lie,” and the figure is “probably a half a million people” a year.”
Donald Trump
Former President of the United States. campaign rally. Claim dated 25 Mar 2023.
FactCheck.org rated thisNo Evidence
What FactCheck.org found
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us that “any undercount” in overall drug overdose deaths “should be relatively small.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former President of the United States) made this claim around 25 March 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 March 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “No Evidence”.
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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