Posted on 03/11/2018 11:37:50 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. — President Trump on Saturday again called for enacting the death penalty for drug dealers during a rally meant to bolster a struggling GOP candidate for a U.S. House seat here.
During the campaign event in this conservative western Pennsylvania district, the president also veered off into a list of other topics, including North Korea, his distaste for the news media and his own election victory 16 months ago.
Trump said that allowing prosecutors to seek the death penalty for drug dealers — an idea he said he got from Chinese President Xi Jinping — is “a discussion we have to start thinking about. I don’t know if this country’s ready for it.”
“Do you think the drug dealers who kill thousands of people during their lifetime, do you think they care who’s on a blue-ribbon committee?” Trump asked. “The only way to solve the drug problem is through toughness. When you catch a drug dealer, you’ve got to put him away for a long time.”
It was not the first time Trump had suggested executing drug dealers. Earlier this month, he described it as a way to fight the opioid epidemic. And on Friday, The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration was considering policy changes to allow prosecutors to seek the death penalty.
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Ask Al Capone or Joe Kennedy!
Wait a minute. Obama freed a bunch of his bro drug dealers because they wern’t a danger to society. Could Pres Trump be wrong (sarc)?
Good idea.
Why don’t we start with big pharma and the public school system who drug up untold numbers of boys to ‘treat’ nonexistent medical conditions?
This is flat out a lie, Trump did not call for the death penalty for drug dealers. He merely compared the punishment in other countries to our own. Nothing new here, compost is disgusting.
The usual drill.out of context totally misconstrued what he said and they know it. Purposely the most inflammatory headline ahead the PA election.
The death penalty should be extended beyond borders to drug dealer enemys where they live
Drones with hell fires should destroy cartel headquarters where ever they exist in Mexico. A few thousand dead cartel honchos along with their wives and children should solve a lot of problems.
Since we have no border with Mexico, we have no border with Mexico
You sound like a lefty.
The RINO squishes won’t support a death penalty for drug dealers.
Either end “the war on drugs” or wage the war to win it. I believe Trump would be fine either way.
“This is flat out a lie, Trump did not call for the death penalty for drug dealers. “
Good point. A basic point. One that gets lost because the media overtly lie so much we overlook it.
Nope. I’m not.
Guess you’re not familiar with what’s been going on with kids in public schools the past decade or so.
Do you always criticize things you don’t know about?
“————and the public school system who drug up untold numbers of boys to ‘treat’ nonexistent medical conditions?”
When did public schools start dispensing drugs?
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You need to stop broad brushing. You give the wrong impression that way.
I agree with you on that.
They don’t. But they’re instrumental in getting the ball rolling.
To them - boys who are not docile as lambs is the result of some kind of pathological problem.
What a difference a year makes. The Kenyan was pardoning them.
Broad brushing?
We are going to be short a LOT of doctors.
Then the parents and doctors are at fault,not the schools.
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No - the schools are as culpable as any of the other parties.
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