'That’s math, all right': DOJ claims this equation proves Trump 'saved 258 million lives'

01 May

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi does an interview, outside the White House in Washington, D.C. U.S., April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

This Tuesday, the Trump administration marked "Fentanyl Awareness Day" to highlight the dangers of Fentyl.

To observe the day, Attorney General Bondi toured a Drug Enforcement Administration laboratory in northern Virginia, where scientists are analyzing cartel strategies for smuggling drugs across the border.

In a post on the social platform X that afternoon, Bondi noted, “In President [Donald] Trump’s first 100 days we’ve seized over 22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 Million lives.”

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During a Cabinet meeting to mark the first 100 days of the Trump administration, Bondi's claim doubled as she told Trump that 75 percent of America would be dead if not for him.

Critics on social media mocked Bondi's shifting numbers of lives the president supposedly saved.

“'Are you ready for this, media?' Pam Bondi turns to the press and says Trump saved '258 million lives.' That’s not a press briefing that’s a cult sermon with a camera crew. At this rate, they’ll credit him for inventing oxygen next," political commentator Brian Allen wrote on X.

Slate's politics writer Jim Newell decided to investigate the Department of Justice (DOJ)'s claim to figure out how they came up with the figure. When he reached out to the department, he was given the following math, according to an article published in the magazine Thursday:

"1 kg of fentanyl * .1518 (current purity level) * 1000 (to convert to grams) / by .002 (amount needed for a deadly dose) = lethal dose of fentanyl. So, 3,400 Kg of fentanyl seized in Trump’s first 100 days 3400 * .1518 * 1000 / .002 = 258,060,000 deadly doses."

"Yep, that’s math, all right," Newell said of the DOJ's response.

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"As for the overnight uptick from 119 million to 258 million lives saved, the spokesman said that the 119 million figure 'was in reference to stats that did not include FBI seizures, just the DEA’s.'"

He added he had follow-up questions, such as how 258 million fatal doses would be distributed, one per person, to 258 million people, within 100 days, "as would have presumably happened if Trump were not president."

"But today, we’re just grateful to be alive," he added.

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