Does the fact that a government employee provides opportunities or facilities for the commission of a criminal offence defeat the prosecution?

At trial, defendants argued that they were inexperienced and unknowledgeable, were not the large-scale narcotics traffickers that the government painted them to be, and had been entrapped by the government. "It is well settled that the fact that officers or employees of the Government merely afford opportunities or facilities for the commission of the offense does not defeat the prosecution." Jacobson v. United States , 503 U.S. 540, 548, 112 S.Ct. 1535, 118 L.Ed.2d 174 (1992) (internal quotation marks omitted) (emphasis ours). Rather,