The attorney general tried to pass off Trump’s predecessor’s work as his own.

Attorney General Pam Bondi shared and then deleted a graph showing a steep drop in drug overdose deaths after she was busted trying to give the Trump administration credit for progress made under Joe Biden.

The graph, which tracked overdose deaths from October 2015 to October 2024, showed that deaths surged nationwide beginning in 2015 with the advent of fentanyl, according to a June 2025 article from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The overdose rate spiked just before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, during Donald Trump’s first term, before largely plateauing in 2022 and 2023. From October 2023 to October 2024, when Biden was in office, the rate of overdose deaths began to fall sharply again.

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      9 hours ago

      The hero we needed.

      Someone at TDB needs to throw out their thesaurus. Every headline, Trump is “blasted” “annihilated”, “ruined”, “owned”, or some other equally sensationalist language.

      How about you employ writers who can report the news without clickbait, you fuckin’ hacks?

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        8 hours ago

        Every headline, Trump is “blasted” “annihilated”, “ruined”, “owned”, or some other equally sensationalist language.

        I agree in most cases but this title is fine. She got busted lying.