The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website April 25, 2018:
President Trump draws a line between the death penalty and “drug problems” but his assumption is wrong. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“These people [drug dealers] kill thousands of people over the course of their lives through drugs. So we’re going to have to get much, much tougher in terms of penalty. And if you want to stop it — if you look at certain countries where they have, as an example, the death penalty, and say, ‘How’s your drug problem?’ And they will tell you, ‘We don’t have much of a drug problem.’ ”
— President Trump, during a panel discussion in Washington, March 22, 2018
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