At a rally this week in Pennsylvania, United States President Donald Trump apparently veered off of his planned subject to discuss the idea of invoking the death penalty for drug dealers in America.
According to reports, Trump had originally entered Pennsylvania to discuss the hotly discussed Senate race, although it quickly became a trip about other topics.
According to the President, he, felt inspiration from countries like the Philippines and Singapore both of which lawfully execute drug dealers in accordance with their own laws.
“You kill 5,000 people with drugs because you’re smuggling them in and you are making a lot of money and people are dying,” Trump told the West Pennsylvania crowd. “And they don’t even put you in jail.” Then he compared America to Singapore “He said, ‘We have a zero tolerance policy. That means if we catch a drug dealer, death penalty.'”
Meanwhile, per USA Today, KellyAnne Conway then denied such claiming that Trump would actually take a much more nuanced approached.