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Need to know
- It was an American military strike against a Venezuelan ship on Tuesday September 2
- President Donald Trump attributed this to an overdose of drugs, claiming that “300 million people died last year of drugs”
- A spokesman for the White House told People in a statement that “the president is right”, adds, “millions of Americans are affected every year by the plague of deadly drugs that take their friends, members of the community and loved ones just”
President Donald Trump has attributed one US military strike against a Venezuelan vessel To an overdose epidemic to a drug overdose – but his numbers do not add.
The president talked to reporters before boarding Air Force One at Morristown Airport on Sunday, September 14, when he spoke the killing of 11 people on the ship It resigns from Venezuela, which is alleged to carry illegal drugs, Tuesday, September 2.
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s Interior Minister, condemned the military strike as “a murder committed against a group of citizens using fatal strength” on state television, Newsweek reported.
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According to Cabello, according to Newsweek, local investigations found that none of the 11 killed were members of Tren de Aragua (TDA) gangs or drug traffickers. It was a second strike on Monday 14 September, according to Trump’s post about truth.
While talking to reporters on SundayOne reporter asked Trump if he was worried that the President of Venezuela called the US military strike on the Venezuelan ship earlier this month “illegal”.
“No,” he said. “What is illegal are the drugs that were on the boat and the drugs sent into our country, and the fact that 300 million people died last year of drugs. That’s what is illegal.”
The US Census Bureau Reported that there were approximately 340 million people in the United States in 2024, which would have meant that more than two -thirds of the country’s population would have died if the president was correct.
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The estimated number of deaths for the world for the year 2024 was actually 62.4 million, based on The latest report on world population perspective. People confirmed this estimate with a UN staff.
However, the White House spokesman Kush Desai told people in a statement that “the president is right.”
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“Millions of Americans are influenced by the scourge of deadly drugs each year who take their friends, members of society and loved ones,” the statement said.
