President Trump comforts his mother whose son died of fentanyl poisoning: “I’m looking at you”
Speaking at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on Friday, President Donald Trump His son comforted his mother, who died of fentanyl addiction, telling her, “He’s looking at you,” and “He’s very proud of his mother.”
Mr Trump highlighted the huge impact that fentanyl addiction has on American citizens, saying in his speech, “Americans who died in fentanyl last year died in the Korean, the Iraq war or the Afghan war last year.”
He condemned President Joe Biden Cartels and border policies, cartels, countries such as Mexico, Canada, China, and others to allow fentanyl issues to be made very broad.
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President Donald Trump will listen to his son as Anne Fundner, who passed away after he took fentanyl-covered pills at a press conference at the Justice Department on Friday, March 14, 2025. (Fox News/Pool)
The president came aside for a while and called Anne Fundner, an anti-drug activist who lost his son and his mother who lost his son to fentanyl addiction, to talk about how deadly drugs hurt Americans.
On stage, the funder thanked Trump and his administration for closing the border, targeting cartels and immigrant criminal groups. “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” And to set up tariffs to target countries where fentanyl is flowing.
“The cartel was allowed to operate on American soil, and took hundreds of thousands of American lives. So we knew there was only one person who could save us from the devastation of American soil. That was President Trump,” the fundner said. “I thank President Trump and I thank you. Pam Bondy And everyone is here fighting this battle. god bless you. God bless you, President Trump. ”
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President Donald Trump will speak at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC on Friday, March 14th, 2025 (Fox News/Pool)
In a heartfelt moment when he gets caught up in the microphone, Trump leaned over to hold the fundonner, saying, “He’s looking at you. He’s so proud of his mom.”
“I told Anne, “Weston is watching his mom in heaven. He’s so proud of you, he’s so proud of you,” Trump said.
Turning to the crowd, Trump also told a group of parents who had lost their children to fentanyl, “You and your daughters, your sons, they’re looking down at you, and they love you like crazy.”
The president has been with the DEA since he took office. FBI seized 1 million fatal doses of fentanyl.
“And that’s just the beginning,” he said. “In my direction, working with Pam and everyone else, we have launched an all-out war with Fentanyl traffickers, and a war that we will win. We are going to win this war.”
He also hinted at it Death penalty While certain cartel drug trafficking crimes are considered, it has been recognized that “the US may not be prepared for it.”
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“Anywhere there’s a death penalty, you don’t have drugs,” he said. “But I don’t know if this country is ready for it. So I tell people and it’s always an option.”
The Trump White House previously told Fox News Digital that it would be the case. “Relentlessly aggressive” Responding to the cartel threats to American life.
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“This sector will not be taking a break until we have completely ended the fentanyl epidemic in America,” Trump said Friday.
In addition to taking action against the cartel, Trump said his administration will soon launch a series of advertisements to highlight the negative effects of drug use to reduce widespread deaths across the United States.