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Trump claimed 300,000 Americans died from drugs in 2024.

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Trump claimed on Sept. 5 that "We lost 300,000" Americans to drugs last year, repeating this number in an Oval Office meeting. On Sept. 14, he inflated that number even further to 300 million while sp...

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