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As all but the slowest-witted have figured out, I am NOT a fan of\u00a0 The Donald and have said so many times. Lord, I hate to admit it, but I am afraid I am going to have to agree with him on a crucial policy.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou execute a drug dealer and you\u2019ll save 500 lives, because they kill on average 500 people,\u201d Trump continued<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s terrible to say, but you take a look at every country in this world that doesn\u2019t have a problem with drugs, they have a very strong death penalty for the people that sell drugs. If we\u2019re going to stop this scourge, it\u2019s time to get brutally tough on the dealers and traffickers and narco-terrorist cartels who are stealing over 200,000 American lives a year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Now, Trump’s drug record is shaky and this does look like campaign rhetoric. For instance, at the end of his term he pardoned or cummuted the sentences of over 140 people, including David Barren (drug conspiracy) Christina Boehnenkamp, Jonathan Braun (illegal drug importation), Rodney Gibson, Desiree Perez, Brian Simmons…you get the idea. Trump also signed the First Step Act bill which equalized sentencing for crack and powder cocaine (actually a good move, the original sentence disparity was based on the “one use and you’re hooked FOREVER” hysteria of the ’80s. But it led to the freeing of Joel Fransisco, who later committed a murder and allegedly more coke trafficking). So he has not always acted as a tough anti-drug guy.<\/p>\n