Pam Bondi gets brutal fact-check after taking credit for drug cleanup under Biden

Attorney General Pam Bondi took to X on Tuesday afternoon to brag about the Trump administration's efforts in combating drug deaths — but there was just one problem with her claims.

"Since day one, the Trump Administration and this Department of Justice have been fighting to end the drug epidemic in our country," she wrote, posting a graph of drug overdose deaths declining precipitously in every region of the United States. "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," she wrote. "Electing President Trump and enforcing the law is saving American lives."

However, Associated Press law enforcement reporter Mike Sisak dropped a key fact she appeared to have missed about the data she was presenting.

"FWIW: While AG Pam Bondi touts Trump admin’s anti-drug efforts, the chart with her post (overdose death rates) ends in October 2024 — before Trump returned to office," wrote Sisak. "It's possible some other chart or data shows the effects of the admin’s campaign, but this one isn’t it."

This comes at a moment when Bondi faces intense pressure, including from Trump's own supporters, over the administration's mishandling of the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case files. Even now, a large number of the files have not been released in spite of the deadline under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which some experts think could lead to daily contempt fines against her.