'Trump wants to execute every drug dealer in the US'

'Trump wants to execute every drug dealer in the US'

World February 26, 2018 12:39

washington - President Donald Trump reportedly talked to some 'business partners' about his desire to 'execute every drug dealer in the US'. This reports Axios.

According to the report of the site, he would have spoken about this with five sources. The president would find that the soft approach to the drugs problem 'never goes to work' and therefore looks with great interest at the approach of Singapore. There you sign as a drug dealer your own death sentence.

One of the- anonymous- sources has told Axios that Trump 'regularly jokes about the execution of drug traffickers'. 'They do not have a drug problem in China and in the Philippines. There you have the death penalty, 'Trump would have said.

The president has personally admitted that it would be almost impossible to pass a law requiring mandatory death sentences for drug dealers in the US, according to the Axios report. According to the sources, he would regularly compare drug dealers with serial killers. He wants to make it clear to them that they have to fear for their lives.

Kellyanne Conway, Trump's advisor, responded to the report and argued that the president 'focuses only on drug dealers with a large reach' and especially 'those who use the opioid fentanyl.'

'The president makes a distinction between those who languish in prison for low-threshold drug offenses and the kingpins who bring thousands of lethal doses of fentanyl to the community, who are responsible for many victims,' ​​she said.

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