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The White House said Maduro was ‘flooding’ the US with fentanyl. Experts and official reports disagree.
A White House social media post misleadingly links deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro with the U.S. fentanyl crisis. The X post includes a video highlighting parents who lost children to […]
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