President Biden has come under fire for laughing off the deaths of two young Michigan brothers who were killed by fentanyl poisoning in 2020 as he reacted to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s efforts to pin the blame on his administration.
Speaking to a crowd of Democrats in Baltimore Wednesday night, Mr. Biden began mocking Ms. Greene, Georgia Republican, sarcastically asking, “Isn’t she amazing?”
The two sons, Caleb, 20, and Kyler, 18, died on July 29, 2020, after taking what they thought was Percocet, according to Ms. Kiessling’s testimony. Jake Schneider of the Republican National Committee tweeted, “Truly the lowest bar possible for Biden — what a disgusting person. Losing children to fentanyl trafficking is never, ever funny. Just vile.”Republicans have repeatedly blasted Mr. Biden for not doing enough to crack down on fentanyl that is largely produced in China and has made its way into the U.S. across the Mexican border.
In 2020, which was Mr. Trump’s final full year in office, there were 94,000 drug overdoses and roughly 58,000 linked to fentanyl and other synthetic opioids. That was up from nearly 71,000 overdose deaths in 2019, of which 36,000 were linked to fentanyl and other synthetic compounds.
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