Exclusive: Trump privately talks up executing all big drug dealers

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

In Singapore, the death penalty is mandatory for drug trafficking offenses. And President Trump loves it. He’s been telling friends for months that the country’s policy to execute drug traffickers is the reason its drug consumption rates are so low.

"He says that a lot," said a source who's spoken to Trump at length about the subject. "He says, 'When I ask the prime minister of Singapore do they have a drug problem [the prime minister replies,] 'No. Death penalty'."

But the president doesn't just joke about it. According to five sources who've spoken with Trump about the subject, he often leaps into a passionate speech about how drug dealers are as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty.

Trump tells confidants a softer approach to drug reform — the kind where you show sympathy to the offenders and give them more lenient sentences — will never work.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/twisted-trump-says-porter-sick-guilty-defends-him-publicly-1518385468-1e643a55-5ef4-43fe-90f4-fdba5fc7eadb.html

[TygrBright]

1. If this includes Big Pharma execs, I might be open to negotiating support... n/t

[Scarsdale]

13. Recently, I would have volunteered

to execute a Big Pharma overlord myself. I went to fill a prescription, and was told it would cost $545 for a three week supply. Who the HELL is reaping the rewards for these prices? I told them my Social Security does not extend that much, if I want to keep my house, car and food I will have to slowly get better without these expensive pills. Orrin Hatch was one of the biggest recipients of big pharma payola. His son is a lobbyist for them, too.

[OriginalGeek]

22. I feel ya

we recently had a change in our insurance that necessitated a change in pharmacy (hate that part too but that's another rant). I was signed up for text alerts from the old pharmacy when my prescriptions were ready and during the switch-over they finished my regular order and texted me the notice and price. 4 prescriptions that cost me about 26 bucks with insurance cost over a thousand dollars without it. I don't like the new pharmacy but at least we're back to the 26 bucks.

[CountAllVotes]

27. Big pharma killed my kitty

It has been almost two years since this occurred by I for one have not forgotten.

Neurotoxic paralysis is a hell of a way to go ... poor sweet kitty!



If any one needs to be LOCKED UP it is Big Pharma!

[NCjack]

2. Maybe the death penalty for American capitalists who steal workers' wages. That type

of crime destroys families, and for many the only comfort they can find is illicit drugs. If drug users get the death penalty, then those who cause it should also.

[47of74]

4. I actually think electoral fraud and voter suppression should be capital offenses....

....punishable by execution. They might not seem violent, but as we seen over the past 18 years stolen elections can cause such death, destruction, and misery not just here at home, but throughout the world as well that we have to make the integrity of elections an absolute in our society.

Plus make the right to vote absolute for anyone over the age of 16. Including incompetent, those in prison, and felons who have been released from custody. And if people don't want their candidates getting in, well there's a simple solution for that. Namely vote.

[KPN]

11. If the one, why not? Only seems fair.

[bobbieinok]

3. Isn't this what his buddy Duarte does? Will he expand to 'kill alll caught with drugs'?

Aren't you supposed to protect toddlers from bad influences?

[jmowreader]

6. Duterte executes people who were walking on the wrong side of the street

BTW, what's the cutoff for "big drug dealer"? Is it going to be based on average annual income or the amount of drugs you were caught with?

Sorry Donald, but this sounds like you're applying to be a dictator. The American people would be MORE than happy to pony up the money to haul you and your entire maladministration to a deserted island where you can dictate all you want, just so long as none of you ever come back to the US and the GOP is disbanded.

[Weed Man]

8. And an amendment declaring right-wing nuttery BANNED

from the way of life of Americans.

40 years of right-wing shit, and we achieve nothing but misery.

[47of74]

5. Fucker loves wiping his ass with the Constitution.

[Scarsdale]

14. His arms are too short

to reach back there to his ample ass. He has flunkies to take care of mundane jobs such as that.

[kimbutgar]

7. Will he execute the drug dealer that supplies him coke?

Snark..sarcasm..

[Maxheader]

19. Cheetos

will protect his connections...

[mpcamb]

29. How 'bout the Mercers?

Since they brought us the opioid crisis; One of your big donors, Donnie... You wanna pull the lever?

[Maxheader]

31. With Pleasure

[lordsummerisle]

9. I didn't realize

that the POTUS was now judge, jury and hangman in drug dealer cases...

[Dopers_Greed]

10. He must have a lot of firsthand drug experience

With all that sniffing he does

[politicaljunkie41910]

12. Shouldn't we also have a death penalty for treasonous presidents who sell out their country to our

staunch enemies for electoral assistance and for failure to confront Putin for interfering in our elections, and for failure to enforce the Russian sanctions which were passed by President Obama in 2016 and subsequent sanctions passed by both congressional parties in 2017.

[MBS]

17. " " " " n/t

[True_Blue]

23. What is the penalty for treason nowadays anyway?

They use to execute people for treason back in the day.

[truthisfreedom]

15. Get the media on board talking about opioids, now!

It’s all pharma.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. The URL is incorrect (possibly you scrolled down to the next story, and it replaced it?)

(that's an annoying thing some sites are doing - tacking another story onto the end of the one you're reading, and then when you scroll just a little bit into it, they update the URL in your browser bar)

Anyway, here's a working URL: https://www.axios.com/exclusive-trump-privately-talks-up-executing-all-big-drug-dealers-1519595170-402cc386-8729-4684-a7ef-a5bf31876afa.html

Could you update it in the OP, please?

[BlueIdaho]

18. Funny...

I suspect several large drug cartels are discussing executing Donny.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. He's probably still upset that he bought Domino's Confectioners Sugar back in the '70s, thinking

it was cocaine.

[Initech]

21. Does this mean that he'll arrest those who peddle opioids too?

[pscot]

24. Shkreli is in bigger trouble

than he thought.

[Bengus81]

25. Quick drug dealers,start selling Viagra and hair loss DRUGS and Trump will let you LIVE!!!

Bet those BONER pills for a 70 year old are similar to Crack............

[The_Casual_Observer]

26. Including his old buddy Joseph Weichselbaum?

[Binkie The Clown]

28. The obvious solution to drugs in our schools is to arm the teachers with drugs. nt

[Solly Mack]

30. Weak man. Small, petty, weak man.

And those types are always dangerous with only a little power. Imagine with the power of the oval.