Attorney General Pam Bondi claims that Trump has saved "258 million lives" from fentanyl overdoses

[LiberalArkie]

That's 75% of the population
We are beyond North Korea levels of blatant propoganda

https://www.threads.com/@counterpoint_politics/post/DJFA6BeReZy

[Lovie777]

1. shithole's cult never tell the truth.............

fuck her.

[lapfog_1]

2. sort of hard to believe the idiocy that comes out of their mouths

Over the course of 6 years, the drugs that were involved in the greatest number of deaths were:
Heroin — 59,305.
Cocaine — 39,701.
Fentanyl — 36,005.
Oxycodone — 33,154.
Alprazolam — 26,840.
Morphine — 23,839.
Methamphetamine — 22,949.

over a 6 year period.

Statistics told that are off by ONLY 4 ORDERS of Magnitude. 10,000 to 1.

And that would only be true if NO ONE dies of fentanyl in the next 6 years.

[LiberalArkie]

5. You know, when you look at your list something is kind of apparent.

Herion and Cocaine were majorly imported into the US by the Nixon and Reagan administrations.

Oxycoodone Weren't those companies major Bush and Trump supporters

Meth, Ahh the good ol southern redneck boys and the rightwing motorcycle gangs.

Don't know about the others. I have never run across a left wing drug dealer since my 20's when I went looking for some pot.

[CitizenZero]

3. Idiots

These people are malevolent idiots that can't do basic arithmetic and only appeal to other morons like themselves. Unfortunately there are millions of these fools in our country, which explains our current political predicament.

[Tadpole Raisin]

4. Sure! Every golf stroke saved a life. Who'd have thunk?

[dutch777]

6. Beyond the idiocy of the lives saved numbers, I wonder if he has even changed fentanyl or any illicit drug imports?

Just like China telling him FU on the tariffs, I doubt drug cartels much care about anything Trump wants either.

[Onthefly]

7. Blonde meant to say "fantasy overdoses."

She lies when she speaks and spends her days on Faux News. No need to pay her from our taxpayer money.

[Norbert]

8. 75 percent of the country was saved then

She most certainly isn't a mathlete.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. 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.

[LiberalArkie]

11. Ahh, finally caught on.. It is the old Reagan thing. You know that if you are in the room with someone with AIDS -

you die from it.

I guess it you are in the same building with a fentanyl pill you die from it.

[Initech]

10. Bondi has her lips permanently superglued to Trump's ass.

Pathetic.