U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondy said Tuesday that the Trump administration saved more than 119 million lives with its drug prevention efforts.
“In President Trump’s first 100 days, he seized over 22 million fentanyl knitting, saving over 119 million lives,” Bondi posted on X on his official account.
According to X’s metrics, the post has been viewed over 2 million times. It has been reposted almost 3,000 times.
Then, at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Bondi took a step further. She said the Trump administration saved 258 million people and also cited fentanyl attacks.
The US population is approximately 342 million. So Bondi said the Trump administration saved about one of the three Americans. He then claimed that more than half of the population had been saved.
Fentanyl is the core of the American opioid overdose epidemic. It is very powerful and relatively inexpensive to manufacture, so this drug is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people each year.
Bondy’s comments about the lives of hundreds of millions rely on all of the fentanyl that the Trump administration deemed to have been consumed.
The US saw progress in the fight against opioid death before Trump took office. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid deaths fell by more than 27,000 between October 2023 and September 2024 compared to the past 12 months.
Trump took office on January 20th. Recent data on opioid deaths are not available yet.
Fentanyl drug attacks at the US-Mexico border fell in March this year compared to March 2024, part of the Trump administration’s job to block illegal border intersections, according to customs and border security data.
Bondi’s statement came on the same day she visited the US Drug Enforcement Office forensic Drug Laboratory.
As Florida’s Attorney General from 2011 to 2019, Bondi oversaw state law enforcement during the worst “Pilmil” crisis. This was the main catalyst for the national opioid epidemic.
Drug overdose continues to be the leading cause of death for Americans 18-44, the CDC said.
