Not the one we know
Sure, Hogan Gidley. Whatever you say.
Aaron Rupar at Vox 9 days ago:
President Donald Trump is campaigning on criminal justice reform efforts that reduce sentences for nonviolent offenders, while suggesting he’d like the American justice system to work more like ones in authoritarian countries where drug dealers are executed after “fair but quick” trials.
Well, exectution is a reduced sentence in a way…
Just days after his Super Bowl ad and State of the Union speech highlighted his support for legislation that makes a modest effort to reduce prison sentences at the federal level, Trump on Monday said the best way to further reduce the quantity of fentanyl in the US is to follow China’s lead.
“States with a very powerful death penalty on drug dealers don’t have a drug problem,” Trump said during a White House event with governors. “I don’t know that our country is ready for that, but if you look throughout the world, the countries with a powerful death penalty — death penalty — with a fair but quick trial, they have very little if any drug problem. That includes China.”
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It should be noted that Trump’s claim about China and other authoritarian countries having “very little if any drug problem” is false. Records from the Chinese government indicate that there are more than 2.5 million officially registered drug users in the country, and that the total has increased significantly in recent years. (The real numbers are likely much higher since not all drug users have registered with the state.)
I bet they haven’t. Anyway, increase, decrease, who cares – let’s just execute people we don’t like. It’s good for the mood.
He’s against aggressive sentencing except in the case of young black men who are innocent of the crime for which they are convicted.
He’s making sure that things are all set up and ready for him in the event he should face prison time.
By the way, does treason count as a “non-violent” crime?
Interested parties would like to know…
What the everloving fuck is a ‘powerful’ death penalty?
Who is exactly is “dealing” the most dangerous drugs? The Sacklers?
Maybe Trump likes the idea of death by anti-aircraft gun? He is besties with North Korea after all.