On this issue Trump: Learn from China

On this issue Trump: Learn from China (Comprehensive Report) At an election rally in Pennsylvania, US President Donald Trump called for the death penalty for drug offenders...

(Comprehensive Report) At an election rally in Pennsylvania, US President Donald Trump called for adding the death penalty option for drug crimes. He said that because drug dealers can be sentenced to death, China and Singapore have much less drug problems than the United States.

According to the US "Political Facts" news network reported on the 14th, Trump recently called for adding the death penalty option to drug dealers when attending a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. He said: "The only way to solve the drug problem is to be tough."

He said that when he visited China and Singapore last year, he had discussed the anti-drug issue with the leaders of China and Singapore. He said the idea to add the death penalty option to drug traffickers came from those two countries. When he visited China last year, he learned about China's punishment measures for drug crimes, including the death penalty. Trump believes that the death penalty can effectively help China deter and control drug crimes.

Trump finally said: "Some countries have very, very severe punitive measures, including the death penalty. By the way, they have much less drug problems than we do!"

When referring to Singapore's drug problem, he said: "In Singapore, I asked Mr. Prime Minister, does your country have a drug problem? Lee Hsien Loong said, no, we don't have any drug problem. . I needed to make sure that he was joking when he said "there is no problem", so I asked him, is there no drug problem at all? The Prime Minister of Singapore said that they have zero tolerance for drug problems, and anyone who traffics drugs into Singapore will be sentenced to death! "

As for whether Trump will really establish the death penalty for drug trafficking, Trump said that he is not sure whether the American people will accept such a severe punishment. But he said drug dealers are destroying families.

"In many states, you will get the death penalty for killing one person, but a drug dealer, in his life of selling drugs, will kill thousands, three thousand to five thousand people, and destroy thousands of families. What can we do to the drug dealer? Lock him up for 30 days! Don't even catch him! We can't play around anymore, that's why we have a problem! We must take action!" he said at the rally.

His call for the death penalty for drug dealers received the loudest cheers of the night, the Washington Post reported. Dozens of people nodded in agreement when Trump spoke of China and Singapore's drug death penalty policies. "We love Trump!" one man shouted. A woman shouted: "Pass the death penalty immediately!"

Trump said: "We can't just keep relying on the Blue Ribbon Committee (the Senate committee responsible for formulating and amending laws). They will only say they will not do it. We need to do something!"

Trump has also thought about imposing tougher sanctions on drug traffickers before. His remarks came less than two weeks after Trump laid out the need for the United States to increase "very tough" penalties against drug traffickers to help address the growing opioid addiction problem.

However, not everyone supports Trump’s legislation to increase the death penalty for drug dealers. “Political Fact” refuted Trump’s remarks on imposing the death penalty on drug dealers.

The website article stated that since the U.S. Constitution stipulates that "only crimes that take another person's life" can be punished with the death penalty, it is unclear how the legal profession will determine whether drug trafficking crimes qualify as "taking another person's life." The website stated that if Trump imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking crimes, it may be "unconstitutional."

The number of drug addicts in the United States is currently on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report in 2015 stating that from 2002 to 2013, the number of people over the age of 12 in the United States who have smoked heroin increased by 63%, and the number of deaths tripled. In 2013, approximately 517,000 Americans reported using heroin in the past year, and 8,257 people overdosed and died. The United States is still the world's largest drug consumer, consuming 60% of the world's drugs.