President Trump imposed sweeping tariffs Tuesday on America's largest trading partners, triggering a global trade war that promises to affect the wallets of everyday Americans.
-- Physicians for a Healthy Democracy (@physiciandemocracy.medsky.social) March 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Pres Trump has stated that his tariffs against our allies are because of the fentanyl drugs they seem to allow to enter our borders unchecked.
Well, if Pres Trump seemed to actually care about the drug problem here in the States, I would applaud him.
But I have to ask, if Pres trump is so concerned about a drug problem, then why did he do this?
Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht for online drug scheme (January 2025)
www.reuters.com
... U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.[emphasis mine]
The Republican president made good on a campaign pledge to free Ulbricht, 40, who was arrested in 2013 and sentenced in 2015 in what became a landmark U.S. prosecution launched only a few years after the emergence of the popular cryptocurrency.
"The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me," Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. ...
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