President Donald Trump listens as Anne Fundner, whose son died after taking fentanyl-laced pills, during a news conference at the Department of Justice, Friday, March, 14, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Fox News/Pool)
Stepping aside for a few moments, the president called to the stage Anne Fundner, an anti-drug activist and mother who lost her son – Weston – to fentanyl poisoning, to speak about how the deadly drug is hurting Americans.
While onstage, Fundner thanked Trump and his administration for shutting down the border, targeting the cartels and migrant crime groups as "foreign terrorist organizations" and for instituting tariffs to target countries where fentanyl is flowing from.
"The cartels were allowed to operate on American soil and took hundreds of thousands of American lives. And so, we knew there was only one person that could save us from the devastation on our American soil. And that was President Trump," said Fundner. "I feel like I can speak for the entire fentanyl fighting community when I say thank you to President Trump and thank you to Pam Bondi and everyone out here who is fighting this fight. God bless you. God bless you, President Trump."
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A Border Patrol agent walks between a gap along the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico in Yuma, Arizona on June 1, 2022. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability is asking to speak to the head of that Border Patrol sector. (Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)
"Wherever you have the death penalty, you don't have drugs," he said. "But I just don't know if this country is ready for it. So, I tell people and it's always an option."
The Trump White House has previously told Fox News Digital that it would be "ruthlessly aggressive" in responding to cartel threats to American lives.
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"This department will not rest until we have ended the fentanyl epidemic in America once and for all," Trump said on Friday.
In addition to taking action against the cartels, Trump said his administration would soon be launching a series of ads to emphasize the negative effects of drug use in an attempt to lessen the widespread deaths across the U.S.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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