Pam Bondi got caught again, and this time the proof was in her own post. The attorney general deleted a message after people noticed it praised Donald Trump for a drop in drug overdose deaths that mostly happened while Joe Biden was in office.
Bondi had shared a graph showing overdose deaths from October 2015 to October 2024. She used it to argue that Trump saved lives.
The problem was obvious.
The data did not support her claim.
The chart showed overdose deaths rising sharply starting in 2015. Medical experts have linked that surge to the spread of fentanyl across the country. Deaths continued climbing through much of Trump’s first term.
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The numbers stayed high during the early COVID years. Then the trend changed.
The graph leveled off in 2022 and 2023. After that, deaths dropped sharply in the later years of Biden’s presidency.
That drop was not small.
A June 2025 study from the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the decline under Biden was nearly twice the rate of overdose deaths seen between 2019 and 2021 when Trump was president.
Still, Bondi tried to spin the data.
In her now-deleted post, she wrote:
“President Trump closed the border. DOJ agents have seized hundreds of millions of potentially lethal fentanyl doses. We are aggressively prosecuting drug traffickers and cartel leaders. These are the results. Elections have consequences. Electing President Trump and enforcing the law is saving American lives.”
The graph told a different story.
People noticed fast.
Democratic Rep. Ted Lieu was quick to respond. He thanked Bondi for helping Biden without meaning to.
“Lol, the truth hurts,” Lieu wrote. “@AGPamBondi was glazing Trump again with another lying sycophantic tweet, but the chart she attached stopped in Oct 2024, thus showing the great work done by Joe Biden.”
Bondi did not respond publicly.
She simply deleted the post.
This is not the first time Trump allies have tried to rewrite timelines. Data that does not fit the message often gets ignored. When it cannot be ignored, it gets deleted.
What made this moment stand out was how clear the numbers were.
The chart showed years of rising deaths under Trump. It showed stability and then a sharp decline under Biden.
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