Earlier this week, former President Donald Trump spoke a meeting for the “America First Policy Institute’s” during their two day summit. Among other suggestions, Trump spoke about how he believes drug dealers and traffickers should and must receive the death penalty. He also said they should be quick, two hour trials. He laid out his argument for it, by specifically praising China and Singapore for their handling of drug dealers with quick trials and death penalties.
Just one day before Trump said these words, Singapore executed a man convicted of trafficking cannabis. He was executed by long-drop hanging. This was the sixth man in less than four months who was executed for drug crimes. In Singapore, possession of anything more than 1.1 pounds of cannabis is considered “trafficking” and receives a mandatory death penalty sentence. Just one day after this latest execution, Former President Trump said in his speech: “If you look at countries throughout the world, the ones that don't have a drug problem are those that institute a very quick trial death penalty sentence for drug dealers," "It doesn't take 15 years in court. It goes quickly. And you absolutely, you execute a drug dealer," "It’s time to get brutally tough," "And yes, these drug traffickers should and must receive the death penalty. But you look at Singapore, you look at other countries where they have the death penalty, they have no drug problem whatsoever. You know what a quick trial is right? Two hours. That’s what. Not two years. Not twenty years.” This is not a new idea for Trump. He espoused the same ideas years back as well, even saying he couldn’t understand how the United States could not be ready to support the death penalty for drug dealers. Also in this week's speech, Trump said China was sending drugs into the United States, and he specifically said three times that he “had it stopped.” However, the facts show that opioid deaths increased more than a third during his presidential term, from approximately 46,000 in 2017 when he took office, to close to 70,000 when he left office in 2021. The following is the complete transcript from the above portion of Trump's speech: “If you look at countries throughout the world, the ones that don't have a drug problem are those that institute a very quick trial death penalty sentence for drug dealers. It sounds horrible, doesn't it? But you know what? That's the ones that don't have any problem. It doesn't take 15 years in court. It goes quickly. And you absolutely, you execute a drug dealer and you'll save 500 lives, because they kill on average 500 people. It's terrible to say, but you take a look at every country in this world that doesn't have a problem with drugs, they have a very strong death penalty for the people that sell drugs. If we're going to stop this scourge, it’s time to get bruttally tough on the dealers and trafickers and narco terrorits cartels who are stealing over 200,000 American lives a year. And that’s a very low number compared to what the real number is. That’s a very… think of it, you don’t lose that number in wars, you don’t lose that in wars. And yes, these drug traffickers should and must receive the death penalty. And I’ll tell ya, just from dealing with the heads of other countries. I said to President Xi [Jinping] of China, do you have a drug problem? No No No, why do we ask such a question. No. He almost didn’t know what I was talking about. No no. I said why do you think? Well, if somebody is selling drugs they get the quick trial. Quick trial. Never forget. What is quick trial? Meaning it goes fast. And they get the death penalty. But when I asked him. But when I asked him, do you have in any way, no drug problem. They do have a drug problem, you know what they do? They make drugs and send them into our country. But I had it stopped. That was the drug problem they have. But we had it stopped. Now it’s bigger. Fentanyl, they make it, most of it, and they send it through Mexico through the border. And we had it just about stopped. And now the border as you know is just a horrible situation. But you look at Singapore, you look at other countries where they have the death penalty, they have no drug problem whatsoever. And if we did that, in one year, even if it’s not strong, because it’s never gonna be quite like China. I would say, what do you think Kevin? You think it will ever be like, I don’t think so, no matter what we do, no matter how tough we get, it won’t be quite. You know what a quick trial is right? Two hours. That’s what. Not two years. Not twenty years. No we’re not gonna have that. But just by the mere fact that you have that… immediately, Newt, drug dealing would go down drug dealing would go down, and deaths would go down by at least 50%. Five O. Five O.” Comments are closed.
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