President Trump has been “telling friends for months” that Singapore’s policy to execute drug traffickers “is the reason its drug consumption rates are so low,” Jonathan Swan reports.
Said a senior administration official: “He often jokes about killing drug dealers… He’ll say, ‘You know the Chinese and Filipinos don’t have a drug problem. They just kill them.”
“But the president doesn’t just joke about it. According to five sources who’ve spoken with Trump about the subject, he often leaps into a passionate speech about how drug dealers are as bad as serial killers and should all get the death penalty. He tells friends and associates the government has got to teach children that they’ll die if they take drugs and they’ve got to make drug dealers fear for their lives.”
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