Last week, President Trump was bragging about being forgiving. This week, he’s praising China for executing drug dealers. zakcheneyrice writes
President Trump. Photo: Chris Kleponis/Bloomberg via Getty Images In recent weeks, President Trump has intensified his push to peel black voters away from the Democrats, or at least generate enough goodwill that they’re less motivated to mobilize against him when Election Day comes.
For this to work, the bare minimum requirement is that Trump stays on message long enough for it to stick. But the cracks are already showing. In remarks at the White House on Monday, the president suggested the best way to reduce fentanyl abuse in the U.S. is to follow China’s lead and execute drug dealers. “States with a very powerful death penalty on drug dealers don’t have a drug problem,” he said.
But beyond telling a demonstrable lie, which is common for Trump, he’s also lying in a way that undermines the focal point of his latest reelection push. Trumpeting one’s leniency in criminal and legal matters becomes absurd when paired with one’s praise for executing people convicted of nonviolent crimes. For the president, it’s a short trip.
Combined with Trump’s calls to reinstate the death penalty in New York following the arrests of the Central Park Five, who were innocent, and his more recent praise for Israeli police profiling of the country’s Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian minorities, it seems outlandish that an official boasting Trump’s track record could be convinced to pursue the line of campaigning Kushner is encouraging. Political expediency is a clear motivator.
And plenty enable him: One needn’t look far to find a progressive activist and commentator like Van Jones praising Trump as the “uniter-in-chief on an issue that has divided Americans for generations,” or sycophantic advisers urging him to campaign on his record with black Americans even as he prefaces said boasts with broadsides against Obama, who is enduringly popular among black Americans.
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