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Did Donald Trump really call for the execution of drug dealers? Five sources close to President Trump say that he often jokes and makes comments about killing drug traffickers. According to the political news website Axios, Trump has been telling friends about his desire to kill drug dealers for months.
Sources report that the President’s comments should be taken seriously, that they aren’t simply jokes. Rather, insiders say Trump believes a death penalty for drug dealers is the only way to effectively reduce drug-related deaths.
Did Donald Trump Really Call For The Execution Of Drug Dealers?
President Trump seems to have taken inspiration for his plan to execute dealers from countries where drug trafficking, even of marijuana, carries a mandatory death sentence.
A senior official in the Trump administration told Axios that Trump “often jokes about killing drug dealers… He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them’.”
If true, Trump’s comments would echo those he made during a visit to the Philippines last November to meet with Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte. At the meeting, Trump praised the extrajudicial killings of thousands of alleged drug dealers and drug users in the Philippines. He said Duterte was doing “an unbelievable job on the drug problem” there.
Others accuse President Duterte of committing crimes against humanity by overseeing the executions of upwards of 8,000 people suspected of involvement with illegal drugs. Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court opened a preliminary investigation into those accusations.
Singapore also has a mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking