Death penalty for drug dealers? Count Trump in

[applegrove]

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John Bacon, USA TODAY

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/03/11/death-penalty-drug-dealers-count-trump/414535002/

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Drug dealers kill people, destroy families and might deserve the death penalty or life in prison for their crimes, President Trump says.

Trump, speaking at a rally Saturday in Pennsylvania for congressional candidate Rick Saccone, said he got the idea from the leaders of China and Singapore. The U.S. criminal justice system, Trump said, is too soft on drugs.

“You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you’re smuggling them in and you are making a lot of money and people are dying. And they don’t even put you in jail,” Trump said. “That’s why we have a problem, folks. I don’t think we should play games.”

Trump said he recently asked the president of Singapore if that country has a drug problem.


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Was talking to a filipino today. He supports the Filipino president. I was shocked he said that. Then he said 'you are in a rich country, you don't know what it is like to live in a poor country where the drug dealers commit crazy crimes everywhere and the police do nothing. He said when he was in the Phillipines he could not go outside after dark until Duterte.' (not verbatim). I said there was a point to that. That rich countries should not judge poor. But i was still aghast. That being said: what would the rich countries excuse for killing be when they could very well put dealers in jail and can afford increased police and programs and to go after the suppliers of the opioids if they have the political will. Makes Trump doubly awful for suggesting it.

[dembotoz]

1. what that include the folks who own the big pharmaceutical companies

[applegrove]

2. Good point. It is the Chinese who send opioids to the phillipines so they have no hope

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of going after them, but the US is different. Or they could go after the Chinese with pressure for the whole world. If they had a real American president.

[askyagerz]

3. All the methheads back home just order a jug of liquid

From china. Evaporate the liquid and are left with speed. They used to use Sudafed, lithium batteries and anhydrous. So exactly who should we execute? The chinese? Pharmaceutical execs? Farmers? The energizer bunny?!?

[applegrove]

5. I wonder how the christians feel about what Trump said. The ones who claim to be against

abortion. Not the lapsed ones who have always been adamantly against it like me.

[askyagerz]

7. They will just say that fetuses are innocent

And drug dealers choose to be evil even though it doesn't say anything about drugs in the bible. Most drug dealers I know sell drugs to help support their families. I also know some very prominent people back home that still snort coke like its the 70s. Judges that have been caught with heroin. If you execute everyone that has delt drugs it would touch almost everyone in America in some way.

[DBoon]

4. How about the death penalty for dictators?

[askyagerz]

8. Goddafied...

[rickford66]

6. Drug dealers take life or death chances all the time.

This is no deterrent.

[askyagerz]

9. Absolutely

If bad guys will have shoot outs with police to avoid prison. Just imagine what they will do to avoid death

[rickford66]

10. Better than a Colbert line. Well done.

[Gabi Hayes]

11. Remember this? David Cay Johnston, at the Tucson Book Festival, lamented how MSM continues to

ignore this story of T’s close ties to a convicted drug dealer

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-drug-trafficker-donald-trump-risked-his-casino-empire-to-protect

[Gabi Hayes]

12. Btw, there is absolutely no gray area involving the story

None at all

[TheDebbieDee]

13. What about the MDs who knowingly over-prescribe the opioids...

because they get kickbacks from the pharma companies or are just plain lazy?

[IluvPitties]

14. Rodrigo Duterte is smiling.