Former United States President Donald Trump claimed at a rally in Pennsylvania that the US is "becoming a drug-infested nation" and proposed a death penalty for drug dealers. He repeated his claim that nations in Latin America and Africa are "emptying their jails and prisons" into the US and that they have seen their crime rate plummet, while it increased in the US.
Trump alleged, without citing a source, that around 350,000 people in the US died of drug-related causes last year. The National Center for Health Statistics estimated that there were 107,543 drug overdose deaths in 2023. He also claimed he had an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping that would see fentanyl makers in China receive the death penalty if they sell the drug in the US.
