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Marcuse

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March 11, 2018

Trump Calls For Drug Dealers To Be Executed And Cites China President For Life Xi As Inspiration.

Source: Newsweek

President Donald Trump announced Saturday that China’s President Xi Jinping first got him thinking about introducing the death penalty for drugs dealers.

“We catch a drug dealer, death penalty. That’s it,” Trump told the crowd.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-drugs-dealers-be-executed-and-cites-chinas-president-life-xi-839767



However:
The DEA says most of the fentanyl comes from China, with traffickers sending the product through the mail directly to customers in the U.S. or supplying Mexican cartels, which cut the fentanyl into heroin.

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zmq4bx/exclusive-china-wont-arrest-two-fentanyl-kingpins-wanted-by-us

Add that to the list of things of which *45 is ignorant.
Personally, I believe China is exacting vengeance for the Opium Wars.

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