trump saved "258 million lives" according to Bondi

[senseandsensibility]

thanks to his work on fentanyl. She turned to the press and said that during his ridiculous cabinet meeting this morning.

As my favorite comment on bluesky read, "The Math ain't Mathin". That would literally be 74% of the population!

I thought she was supposed to be the smart one.

[FSogol]

1. Is that in addition to all the one he killed with his crappy covid response?

What about the ones he's helping to kill with whatever Brainworm Jr is doing?

[senseandsensibility]

3. I mean, 74% of Americans were on fentanyl?

Seems like we'd be hearing more about that. Right?

[Aviation Pro]

2. Where are the Epstein files, AG Blondie?

…..

[senseandsensibility]

4. Didn't she release them a while back?

Or did she chicken out? It's hard to keep up with all the "winning".

[moose65]

5. Good grief!

"Alternative Facts" strike again!

[senseandsensibility]

6. Bondi outdoes Kelly in that department

I'm afraid. Scary that this our AG not just some kind of "advisor".

[Ocelot II]

7. Name a few of them. Just two or three. I want the names

of two or three people he actually saved, and how he saved them. And how were the other 2/3 of the total population of the US saved?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. Maddow Blog-On fentanyl seizures, AG Bondi credits Trump with saving three-quarters of U.S. population

The attorney general claimed recent fentanyl seizures will save “258 million lives.” That's ... not quite right.
https://bsky.app/profile/hategop.bsky.social/post/3lo55aacmkn2d

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fentanyl-seizures-ag-bondi-credits-trump-saving-three-quarters-us-popu-rcna204091

Take Attorney General Pam Bondi, for example.

The Republican AG appeared on Fox News this week, and marked Fentanyl Awareness Day with a curious claim. “In President Trump’s first 100 days, we’ve seized over 22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 million lives,” Bondi said.

According to the Census Bureau, the current population of the United States is over 341 million people. According to the attorney general, fentanyl laced pills were poised to kill roughly one in three Americans — which seemed difficult to believe.

A day later, Bondi attended a White House Cabinet meeting, where she gushed for quite a while about how awesome Donald Trump’s awesomeness is, before turning her attention to fentanyl seizures.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3lo27p7wrls2d

Link to tweet

After prefacing her comments by asking whether journalists were “ready” for her big announcement, Bondi credited Trump with saving “258 million lives” — or roughly three-quarters of the population of the United States......

So, a few things.

First, the Trump administration really should stop coming up with weird mathematical formulas. Readers who were baffled by what the DOJ told the Daily Beast can take comfort in the fact that they're not alone, though it's about as strange as the White House's tariffs formula.

Second, the first hint that this formula was flawed should’ve been obvious to Bondi and her team given that fentanyl-laced pills, though extremely dangerous, were never going to wipe out 78% of the American population.

Finally, let’s also not overlook a recent report from Reuters, which noted that under the Biden administration, there was a sharp decline in overdose deaths from fentanyl, but those directly involved in the anti-narcotics fight are concerned about a reversal due to “federal spending cuts instigated by” the Trump White House.

[Maeve]

9. "22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 million lives"---that's 5 people per pill!

[Ping Tung]

10. Was that before he contructed the Garden of Eden and finaanced Noah's yacht?

[onenote]

11. What's really cool is that in 2023, Biden saved the lives of every single American, some more than once.

In 2023, over 115 million pills containing illicit fentanyl seized by law enforcement. That's even more than what Bullshit Blondie was yammering on about (it works out to around 32 million per 100 days). Anyway, that's probably more than 340 million lethal doses if its ground into powder form -- so everyone in the country was saved

https://nida.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/2024/05/over-115-million-pills-containing-illicit-fentanyl-seized-by-law-enforcement-in-2023

And then, in 2024, Biden did it again --the DEA seized more than 60 million fentanyl-laced fake pills and nearly 8,000 pounds of fentanyl powder -- the equivalent to more than 380 million lethal doses of fentanyl per the DEA. So again, every man, woman and child in the country was saved yet again with another 40 million saved twice!!