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Axios: Trump Rants To Friends That Drug Traffickers Should Get Death Penalty

March 01, 2018 07:48·
Associated Press Andrew Harnik

Associated Press Andrew Harnik

During his State of the Union address last month, Trump had said that the USA must get "much tougher on drug dealers and pushers" so that it can put an end to the opioid epidemic in the country.

President TrumpDonald John TrumpAccuser says Trump should be afraid of the truth Woman behind pro-Trump Facebook page denies being influenced by Russians Shulkin says he has White House approval to root out "subversion" at VA MORE has often talked about drug dealers getting the death penalty during conversations about drug enforcement, Axios reported Sunday.

The President of the United States Donald trump during the discussion of measures to combat drug-related crime in the country, are increasingly of the opinion that it was introduced the death penalty for anyone who sells drugs.

"You know the Chinese and Filipinos don't have a drug problem", the source quoted the president as saying.

As America grapples with its endemic drug problem, Donald Trump reportedly has a soft spot for Singapore's no-nonsense method of handling offenders.

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Newsweek reports White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who now leads the White House drug policy office, told Axios that Trump's capital punishment idea is focused on high-volume dealers whose drugs are responsible for thousands of deaths. "They just kill them, '" the unnamed official said.

Trump's comments about drug dealers were quite similar to that of the controversial Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte who had even authorized the Philippine police to execute drug dealers.

Kellyanne Conway, the Presidential counselor who leads the White House's anti-drug efforts, told Axios Trump's point was that "some states execute criminals for killing one person but a dealer who brings a tiny quantity of fentanyl into a community can cause mass death in just one weekend, often with impunity". He says a lighter approach to drug reform will never work, and is said to be considering legislation that would require people convicted of dealing as little as two grams of fentanyl to serve five years in prison.

Duterte's war on drugs drew flak from individuals and groups around the globe as the administration's campaign took the lives of more than 12,000 drug suspects, according to the New York-based Human Rights Watch's report. Any sentence that exhibits sympathy for the accused, according to the president, is bound to fail.

Nearly one third of who died of drug overdose in 2016 in the U.S. did so on synthetic opioids like fentanyl, according to the National Institute for Drug Abuse. Currently, you have to deal forty grams to trigger the mandatory five-year sentence.

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