WaPo Fact Check: Trump Calls For Death Penalty For Drug Dealers
In a Monday analysis, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler dug into former President Donald Trump’s proposal that the government execute drug dealers.
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In a Monday analysis, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler dug into former President Donald Trump’s proposal that the government execute drug dealers. Trump presented the idea again while campaigning with a series of claims about the federal government’s effectiveness at combating drug cartels and cross border trafficking at an early November rally for J.D. Vance.
At one point, Trump claimed that a drug dealer will kill an average of 500 people over the course of their lives. Kessler points out that given the number of people who die from drug overdoses, Trump’s numbers would put the total number of drug dealers in the U.S. in the low thousands – but 20,000 drug traffickers alone are prosecuted by the federal government every year. Trump claimed that his proposal to impose the death penalty for drug dealers would reduce drug distribution and reduce crime by at least 75 percent, but Kessler was unable to find any data to support this claim. Read the rest of his analysis here.
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