Slate: Trump Wants Death Penalty for Drug Dealers Because He’s Racist
by Brian McNicoll on March 21, 2018
Unlike Hillary Clinton, who had a detailed $10 billion plan to address the opioid crisis, President Trump has no plan except to hold people of color responsible and use opioids as an excuse to kill as many of them as possible, according to a piece on Slate.
In “Kill the Scapegoats: Donald Trump wants the death penalty for black and brown people he blames for the opioid crisis,†Slate’s Jamelle Bouie admitted that Trump talked a lot about opioids on the campaign trail.
His approach – it wasn’t a plan but more like “a hastily scribbled sketch†had two prongs, Bouie wrote: “The first was compassion and treatment for the victims; … the second was punishment for those responsible, with longer mandatory minimums for drug dealers.â€
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