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Donald Trump: “I believe we lost 300,000 people last year to drugs. 300,000…”

Featuring: Donald Trump, Republican | President of the United States | National

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Published | Video Starts at 34:46

To every terrorist thug smuggling poisonous drugs into the United States of America, please be warned that we will blow you out of existence. That's what we're doing. We have no choice. Can't let it happen. They're destroying. I believe we lost 300,000 people last year to drugs. 300,000 fentanyl and other drugs. Each boat that we sink carries drugs that would kill more than 25,000Americans. We will not let that happen. Energy is another area where the United States is now thriving like never before. (34:46–34:55)

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Asserts that 300,000 people died last year in the U.S. due to drugs like fentanyl.

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