FACT FOCUS: There's no proof each strike on alleged drug boats saves 25,000 lives, as Trump claims
President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that strikes on suspected drug boats his administration began carrying out in September in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean are saving hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. from fatal drug overdoses
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