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Biden botches fentanyl death statistics when raising issue with Mexican prez
NY Post ^ | Jan. 9, 2023

Posted on 01/09/2023 9:11:08 PM PST by deplorableindc

MEXICO CITY — President Biden understated the number of deaths caused by fentanyl Monday when raising the issue with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador — after critics blasted Biden for not paying enough attention to the deadly scourge.

Biden said that fentanyl has killed “100,000” Americans, when official data actually link the potent synthetic opioid to about 196,000 US deaths in 2018-2021 alone.

The toll in 2022 is feared to be even worse than the 71,000 fentanyl deaths in 2021, potentially putting US fatalities over five years close to 300,000 as the drug is increasingly mixed into non-opioid drugs and counterfeit prescriptions.

“Today we’re going to discuss how we can further deepen [our] relationship, not only with Mexico but the Western Hemisphere. This includes… our shared security, including our joint action to address the plague of fentanyl, which has killed 100,000 Americans so far,” Biden said during a meeting with López Obrador at Mexico’s National Palace.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugs; fentanyl; joebiden; mexico

1 posted on 01/09/2023 9:11:08 PM PST by deplorableindc
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To: deplorableindc

If he doesn’t have a couple of his Snowflakes and Zeros standing next to him every time he opens his big mouth, he usually screws it up. He’s just a confused, tired old man with lots of mental issues.


2 posted on 01/09/2023 9:14:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Hey Amerika! The whole world is watching and laughing their asses off. )
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To: deplorableindc

wanna bet he made a deal to spring el chapo jr?


3 posted on 01/09/2023 9:15:26 PM PST by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He’s always been a very low intellect person. Talk about the Peter Principle at work! He epitomizes it. And never done an honest day’s work or met a payroll in his entire, miserable life. Just a no-account grifter from Delaware.


4 posted on 01/09/2023 9:21:13 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

.....”He’s (Biden) always been a very low intellect person”......

Any time he opens his mouth it’s evident......more like the class clown and he never did a good job of that either..


5 posted on 01/09/2023 9:26:25 PM PST by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......Augustine)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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6 posted on 01/09/2023 9:44:21 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: deplorableindc

Biden botches [fill in the blank]


7 posted on 01/09/2023 10:05:06 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: deplorableindc

I can just imagine the Mexican President massaging his temples, sighing aubibly in the main conference room, while Joe Biden babbles away making no sense at all.
Joe has managed to even bore and confuse the Official Interpreter.


8 posted on 01/09/2023 10:07:38 PM PST by lee martell
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To: FlingWingFlyer

No, Biden’s always been a dumb ass, a liar and a pervert.


9 posted on 01/09/2023 10:12:12 PM PST by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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To: deplorableindc

Demented Joe has become totally empty suit. He is just a front man for Obozo who hates America next to Soros.


10 posted on 01/10/2023 12:24:00 AM PST by chopperk
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To: chopperk

This^.


11 posted on 01/10/2023 1:20:51 AM PST by Does so (It's not OUR guns...It's YOUR sons!)
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To: deplorableindc

“Biden said that fentanyl has killed “100,000” Americans, when official data actually link the potent synthetic opioid to about 196,000 US deaths in 2018-2021 alone.”

Since Biden has knowingly and willingly facilitated the import of those drugs into the U.S., he is responsible for every fentanyl death. If Republicans didn’t suck at politics they would highlight this.


12 posted on 01/10/2023 3:38:53 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: caww

“Class clown”

I can just see him acting up in class. His miserable grades reflect that. Everything is so corrupt in the USA for a man like that to get anywhere near the Oval Office..


13 posted on 01/10/2023 5:56:56 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Once you get people to believe that a plural pronoun is singular, they'll believe anything - nicollo)
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To: deplorableindc

I wonder how many people have been driven to drink because of this disaster criminal president? The man doesn’t make it any easier for this patriot (me) to stay sober. Just sayin. I personally know a mother of a dead 21 year old son that died from Fentanyl OD in 2021. She wrote/sent a personal letter to the White House Attn:Joe Biden and squarely blamed him and his disaster border policies for the death of her son. It is utterly mind numbing the number of Fentanyl dead in just the SoCal area alone, and the Fentanyl drug busts that have happened...which just scratches the surface of what is coming across the border. FJB!


14 posted on 01/10/2023 6:19:06 AM PST by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: deplorableindc

There’s probably a lot of things he’s botched we don’t know about.


15 posted on 01/10/2023 6:37:46 AM PST by Theophilous Meatyard III
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To: All

A junkie should be able to go to any hospital or police station and have his meth or heroin checked for fentanyl. If it just saves one life . . . .


16 posted on 01/10/2023 6:58:17 AM PST by BipolarBob (The party never stops until someone calls the cops.)
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