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spanone

(135,832 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:24 PM Mar 2018

Donald Death Is Officially Proposing That We Give Drug Traffickers the death penalty

-Wants us to be more like China and Singapore-...fucking idiot.

President Donald Trump announced a new plan on Monday to combat the opioid crisis that includes sentencing some drug traffickers to the death penalty when appropriate under current law. During an afternoon speech in New Hampshire, in which he also placed some blame for the opioid crisis on immigrants, the president praised countries that “don’t play games” on drugs and called for changes. “We have to change the laws,” he said.

New Hampshire has been hard hit by opioids, which have contributed to spikes in overdose deaths in recent years. The White House’s plan will also include calls for stricter enforcement, including the invocation of mandatory minimum sentences for lower levels of some opioids, more public awareness and expanded access to treatment and recovery programs.

The announcement to push executions fits with Trump’s previous statements on the death penalty and drug dealers.

Last week, he said drug dealers “kill 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 people during the course of his or her life” and only go to jail for “30 days, 60 days, 90 days — you might get a year” during a rally for a Republican candidate in Pennsylvania. During that rally, the president said that China and Singapore don’t have drug problems because they have the death penalty for dealers.


http://time.com/5205467/donald-trump-death-penalty-drug-traffickers-opioid/
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Donald Death Is Officially Proposing That We Give Drug Traffickers the death penalty (Original Post) spanone Mar 2018 OP
Donnie Dicko must go. Zoonart Mar 2018 #1
Next year it will be the death penalty for Ilsa Mar 2018 #2
As I said in another post, what about his pilot? Dread Pirate Roberts Mar 2018 #3
El Chapo wanted to kill the fucking moron before he was caught (again). BigmanPigman Mar 2018 #4
Coke head Kudlow must die then! bronxiteforever Mar 2018 #5

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
2. Next year it will be the death penalty for
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:28 PM
Mar 2018

Teachers who go on strike. Or nurses that strike. Eventually it will be the death penalty for not voting for him.

Dread Pirate Roberts

(1,896 posts)
3. As I said in another post, what about his pilot?
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:30 PM
Mar 2018

He's all for the death penalty now but when it was his helicopter pilot, he pulled out all of the stops to help him. https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210381094

BigmanPigman

(51,591 posts)
4. El Chapo wanted to kill the fucking moron before he was caught (again).
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:34 PM
Mar 2018

I guess he isn't all bad as after all. He put a price on El Cheapo's head.

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