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Donald Trump: “We lost 300,000 people died last year [due to drugs coming…”

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

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President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War

Published | Video Starts at 49:40

I don't blame them. There'll be no fishing today. But it's amazing what strength will do, because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country. It's destroying. We lost 300,000 people died last year [due to drugs coming into our border]. Everybody knows, friends, many friends, probably that you lost a child or adults too, but you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border. (49:40–49:44)

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Asserts that 300,000 people died last year due to drugs entering the U.S. through the border.

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