Former President Donald Trump made his grand return to the nation’s capital on Tuesday, delivering what was billed as a political address to his new think tank that was light on politics and heavy on Trump grievance.
Speaking to a friendly crowd gathered at the inaugural conference of his America First Policy Institute, what little time Trump did spend on politics was spent largely on an old idea (executing drug traffickers) and a new one (relocating homeless populations in tents on the outskirts of the metropolitan area). areas).
“Open big tracts of cheap land on the outskirts of cities,” Trump said, describing how he would implement the plan to get people living in tents out.
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The real estate expert turned former president added that “thousands and thousands of high-quality tents” could be pitched in “one day.”
On the subject of drug traffickers in the United States, Trump recycled an old proposition: speedy execution.
“The sanctions should be very, very severe,” he said. “If you look at countries around the world, the ones that don’t have a drug problem are the ones that institute a very quick trial death sentence for drug dealers,” Trump told event attendees only for invitation.
“Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? But you know what? Those are the ones that don’t have a problem,” she said. “It doesn’t take 15 years in court. Go fast, and absolutely, you execute a drug dealer and you’ll save 500 lives.”
trump has repeatedly praised the drug punishment policies of countries like the Philippines, where former President Rodrigo Duterte is estimated to have killed more than 6,000 drug traffickers in one year, according to the 2016 State Department Human Rights Report.
Trump spent most of his speech ostensibly talking about social issues like transgender athletes and crime (in fact, he proposed sending the National Guard to Chicago) while managing to revisit his greatest hits like the dangers of an “open” border. and the entry of undocumented immigrants. the United States
“It’s a mile wide and an inch deep, all sizzle and no substance,” said a current Trump adviser. the daily beast. “They are burning through donor money and doing nothing meaningful to advance a coherent political agenda, and everyone who is paying attention knows it.”
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