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Donald Trump on Drugs

Donald Trump on Drugs 2016 Republican nominee for President; 2000 Reform Primary Challenger for President





Tougher on drug dealers to end scourge of opioids

My Administration is committed to fighting the drug epidemic and helping get treatment for those in need. The struggle will be long and difficult--but, as Americans always do, we will prevail.

Source: 2018 State of the Union address , Jan 30, 2018

Stop drugs pouring into country & poisoning our youth

To protect our citizens, I have directed the Department of Justice to form a Task Force on Reducing Violent Crime. I have further ordered the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, along with the Department of State and the Director of National Intelligence, to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread across our Nation. We will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and

Source: 2017 State of the Union address to Congress , Feb 28, 2017

Apply resources to stop the inflow of opioids into America

TRUMP: We first should stop the inflow of opioids into the United States. We can do that and we will in the Trump administration. As this is a national problem that costs America billions of dollars in productivity, we should apply the resources necessary to mitigate this problem. Dollars invested in taking care of this problem will be more than paid for with recovered lives and productivity that adds to the wealth and health of the nation.

CLINTON: I have proposed a $10 billion initiative, and laid out a series of goals to help communities across the country. We need to expand the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant and support new federal-state partnerships targeting prevention, treatment, recovery, and other areas of reform. Finally, we must prioritize rehabilitation and treatment over prison for low-level and non-violent offenders.

Source: ScienceDebate.org: 20 questions for 2016 presidential race , Oct 9, 2016

Agrees with Hillary on cautious approach to legalizing pot

Jill Stein (Green) focuses on "Black Lives Matter" as systematic racism in the criminal justice system.

Hillary Clinton (Democrat) learned to say the same phrases when pushed by Bernie Sanders but somehow still maintains her pro-death stance.

Gary Johnson (Libertarian) is well to the left of Hillary on crime issues, with a libertarian distrust of police authority.

Trump supports both the death penalty and "Blue Lives Matter."

Brother died of alcoholism; so Donald never touched alcohol

In a telephone interview last week, Mr. Trump said he had learned by watching his brother how bad choices could drag down even those who seemed destined to rise. Seeing his brother suffering led him to avoid ever trying alcohol or cigarettes, he said.

In the upwardly mobile Trump family, Donald was the second and favorite son. Freddy was the disappointment, who lacked the killer instinct and drifted so far from his father's ambitions that his children were largely cut out of the patriarch's will.

Asked whether Freddy's experience in the family business, which friends described as miserable, contributed to the drinking that ultimately killed him, Mr. Trump said: "I hope not. I hope not."

Source: N.Y. Times coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Jan 3, 2016

Study legalization, but don't legalize now

TRUMP: Well, I did not think about it, I said it's something that should be studied and maybe should continue to be studied. But it's not something I'd be willing to do right now. I think it's something that I've always said maybe it has to be looked at because we do such a poor job of policing. We don't want to build walls. We don't want to do anything. And if you're not going to want to do the policing, you're going to have to start thinking about other alternatives. But it's not something that I would want to do.

Source: ABC This Week 2015 interview by Martha Raddatz , Nov 8, 2015

Yes to medical marijuana; otherwise, decide state by state

Source: Washington Post 2015 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Oct 29, 2015

1990: Drug enforcement is a joke; 2015: only medical pot

Source: Mother Jones 2015 coverage of 2016 presidential hopefuls , Oct 28, 2015

1991: Illicit drugs should be decriminalized

Coupled with a previous statement suggesting that illicit drugs should be decriminalized, Trump's tax comments placed him left of center on the political spectrum, but they gained him little press coverage.

Source: Never Enough, by Michael D'Antonio, p. 222 , Sep 22, 2015

Legalize drugs and use tax revenue to fund drug education

Source: Tim Murphy in Mother Jones magazine , Apr 20, 2011

Never drinks, smokes, nor does drugs

Source: Piers Morgan interview by Georgina Bourdeau , Feb 9, 2011

Gave second chance to Miss USA who got caught with drugs

I set up a meeting with her, and I had every intention of stripping her of her title. After talking to her, I realized the right thing to do in her case was to pardon her and give her a second chance. As you may know, this decision caused a media frenzy.

Tara is willing to learn from her mistake and not let it happen again. I decided it was better to give her a second chance than to destroy her career and ruin her chances in life. She finished her reign and continues to support the goals of Miss USA completely.

She agreed to go to rehab and is now doing fine. She thanked me for "saving her life."

Never touched drugs, nor alcohol, tobacco, or coffee

Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p. 24-25 , Jul 2, 2000

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