“We’ve had more Americans die of fentanyl than the Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam Wars, combined.”
What PolitiFact found
About 65,300 soldiers died in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. About 127,000 Americans died from drug overdoses involving a synthetic opioid other than methadone in 2020 and 2021, federal data shows.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Nikki Haley (Republican Presidential Candidate) made this claim around 14 December 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 December 2023, 5 days later. Its rating was “True”.
Nikki Haley has 35 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 12 of them false or fake, 19 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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