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Trump Calls for Death Penalty for Drug Dealers, Blames Sanctuary City for Fentanyl

HeadlineMar 20, 2018

President Trump again called for the death penalty for drug dealers, during a speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, Monday.

President Donald Trump: “The ultimate penalty has to be the death penalty. … Unless you have really, really powerful penalties, led by the death penalty, for the really bad pushers and abusers, we are going to get nowhere. And I’m telling you, we are going to get somewhere.”

Preliminary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 67,000 people died from drug overdoses last year. During Trump’s speech, he also attacked the sanctuary city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, blaming the city for the spread of fentanyl in New Hampshire.

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