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Trump Floats Death Penalty for Drug Dealers
Newsmax ^ | August 30, 2024 | Mark Swanson

Posted on 08/30/2024 6:45:23 PM PDT by Navy Patriot

Acknowledging Americans might not “be ready for it,” Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump called for the death penalty for drug dealers to help combat the effects of becoming a “drug-infested nation.”

Trump made the comments during a speech at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, carried live by Newsmax on Friday, a key battleground in the upcoming election. Trump said a drug dealer in the U.S. kills 500 people, on average, over the course of dealing fentanyl and other dangerous drugs.

“So a drug dealer kills 500 people. And the only thing they would understand would be the death penalty. If you had the death penalty for drug dealers, you wouldn't have any more drugs,” Trump told the crowd.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: drugdealers; drugs; fentanyl; wod
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Very Interesting!
1 posted on 08/30/2024 6:45:23 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: Navy Patriot

The subject needs to be brought up. It’s a real problem. The US doesn’t have the stomach to do that.


2 posted on 08/30/2024 6:47:59 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DIRTYSECRET
The subject needs to be brought up. It’s a real problem.

True and True.

3 posted on 08/30/2024 6:50:24 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Trump wants to Float Drug Dealers down Rio Grande After Execution


4 posted on 08/30/2024 6:50:24 PM PDT by BigEdLB ( Let’s go Brandon)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

6 months in prison would do it. Start with the law abiders per Bill O’rielly. Scared straight.


5 posted on 08/30/2024 6:51:10 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Navy Patriot

Give them some of their product in excess.


6 posted on 08/30/2024 6:52:09 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Navy Patriot

7 posted on 08/30/2024 6:52:59 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Navy Patriot
Yes. About time.

8 posted on 08/30/2024 6:54:18 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: Navy Patriot

9th and 10th Amendment.

This is a state matter.

I get the idea, and the appeal to some people.

But if a consenting adult injects himself with too much heroin in St Louis, this is not a matter for the DOJ.

Parenthetically, for those who think George Floyd oD’d, Trump is arguing that the federal government should execute the guy who sold George Floyd fentanyl.


9 posted on 08/30/2024 6:54:57 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Navy Patriot

At the federal level? Blue States would balk at actual executions. But...life on death row is probably a deterrent.


10 posted on 08/30/2024 6:57:48 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DoodleBob

non consnting adults can accidentally ingest fetynal if it comes in cntact with what is thought to be safe


11 posted on 08/30/2024 6:58:05 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (RINO going along to get along with)
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To: Navy Patriot

I could live with that. Oh wait! I do. I’m in Indonesia.


12 posted on 08/30/2024 6:58:08 PM PDT by Jemian (There is tough. And then, there is TRUMP TOUGH!)
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To: Navy Patriot

Seems appropriate. Democrats have floated and launched assassinationds for certain former Presidents and officials..


13 posted on 08/30/2024 7:00:23 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: DoodleBob

It’s quite simple. If you are caught with a certain amount, you’re hung. Just like ISingapore. Hang ‘em behind closed doors, I don’t care. Or, we could inject them with their own fentanyl. Seems quite deadly.


14 posted on 08/30/2024 7:01:47 PM PDT by gatorhead
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To: Navy Patriot; All
A terrible idea. The Federal government should not have any criminal enforcement except when items cross state line.

Probably end up with a lot of low level dealers in jail or on death row. The big guys will always be able to recruit low level people to do the retail work.

The whole "war on some drugs" has been a disaster for the country.

15 posted on 08/30/2024 7:02:21 PM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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I expect that you and your family have trained each other to pack your own luggage, lock everything, mind your belongings in public and not to handle packages that you don’t know the contents.


16 posted on 08/30/2024 7:05:40 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: gatorhead

…..aaaaand this is a federal matter enumerated WHERE in the Constitution?


17 posted on 08/30/2024 7:10:49 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Ok. Fair enough.

How is this a matter for the DOJ?


18 posted on 08/30/2024 7:11:54 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: Navy Patriot
Trump Floats Death Penalty for Drug Dealers

Sounds like the modern-day application of 'eye-for-an-eye' justice.

Illegal drugs kill people. Drug dealers sell the illegal drugs. The drug dealers are killers and they deserve capital punishment for killing people.
19 posted on 08/30/2024 7:21:06 PM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: Navy Patriot

This is bs. It’ll never happen. When is Trump going to get serious?


20 posted on 08/30/2024 7:36:29 PM PDT by Romulus
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