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Goody... more money to fight the war on drugs. Yawn. If they focused more on dealing and didn't clog up the system with people who are simply end users I might care more. Also the war on marijuana is a huge waste of resources. No other offense gives otherwise law abiding citizens a criminal record than marijuana use. Legalize pot, let people grow it, seal up the border, and use lethal force against dealers coming from south of the border bringing in opioids.. decriminalize simple possession of these drugs if the person is otherwise a nonviolent person not burglarizing or dealing to fund their drug activities. Make it an infraction, fine them $500, confiscate their drugs, and stop clogging up the system with end users.
“We’re so pleased that President Trump has chosen to donate his salary this quarter to the planning and design of a large-scale public awareness campaign about the dangers of opioid addiction.”
“The President is personally dedicated to defeating this crisis because addiction hits home for so many of us. You heard him share the story in his opioid speech about how he lost his own brother to alcoholism,” said Hargan, who added that he also lost a close relative who “constantly struggled with opioids.”
"Kratom is a tropical evergreen tree in the coffee family native to Southeast Asia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Papua New Guinea." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitragyna_speciosa
Kratom has been used as a medicine for 1,000's of years. And "in 1836 it was noted that peasants and rural workers in Malaysia used Kratom as a substitute for opium, when opium was unavailable or not affordable." (People have been using Kratom to get off opium for 100's of years.) https://www.zamnesia.com/content/257-history-of-kratom
But the Trump administration is not interested in any alternative drug to lessen opioid abuse. Instead the Trump administration wants to ban these drugs, increase prison sentences for drug users and then fill the corporate prisons that finance the republicans political campaigns.
It is wonderful that Donald Trump has SUDDENLY became a philanthropist and is giving money to others. He sure didn't do it any time before now. He has never donated any money to charities or causes in his entire life, and , instead, ripped others off of their hard earned money.
If you have any proof he did support any charities before these past 3 checks, I will apologize.
So you've known Trump for fifty years? Not very well then. He has always given money to veterans groups. The rest you will have to look up yourself. He, like many rich people, attended lots of society charity events so that's money right there. Most rich give to charity so they can get tax deductions.
There have been several stories over the years where he quietly helped individuals. The ones I recall are the beauty queen from one of his pageants who is dying (may have died already) -- he is supporting her little boy and will pay for his college when he is old enough. A family in Georgia was about to lose the family farm. Trump read about it and helped them out. A friend of one of his girlfriends when he was single had a father in the hospital and he let her use his helicopter to fly there. Another family had a sick child and Trump let them use his plane. A young black woman was brutally raped and beaten and tossed off a tenement roof in NYC. He read about it and visited her in the hospital and paid her bills and other expenses. There are a lot of ''little" stories like this which you can find. People who worked for him talked about how he'd rip an article out of the paper and tell someone to handle it for him. He's helped people get jobs -- total strangers who asked for help. Happened long before he ran for office.
And these are just the few stories I recall hearing and reading about over the years.
Stop getting your 'news' from PMSNBC, Cartoon News Network and opposition alphabet news networks. They censor and lie to you. Are you okay with that?
So you've known Trump for fifty years? Not very well then. He has always given money to veterans groups. The rest you will have to look up yourself. He, like many rich people, attended lots of society charity events so that's money right there. Most rich give to charity so they can get tax deductions.
There have been several stories over the years where he quietly helped individuals. The ones I recall are the beauty queen from one of his pageants who is dying (may have died already) -- he is supporting her little boy and will pay for his college when he is old enough. A family in Georgia was about to lose the family farm. Trump read about it and helped them out. A friend of one of his girlfriends when he was single had a father in the hospital and he let her use his helicopter to fly there. Another family had a sick child and Trump let them use his plane. A young black woman was brutally raped and beaten and tossed off a tenement roof in NYC. He read about it and visited her in the hospital and paid her bills and other expenses. There are a lot of ''little" stories like this which you can find. People who worked for him talked about how he'd rip an article out of the paper and tell someone to handle it for him. He's helped people get jobs -- total strangers who asked for help. Happened long before he ran for office.
And these are just the few stories I recall hearing and reading about over the years.
Stop getting your 'news' from PMSNBC, Cartoon News Network and opposition alphabet news networks. They censor and lie to you. Are you okay with that?
Are you okay with the limited source of your information. When did he give to veterans-- only when he became a presidential candidate. He was 70 years old by then.
And Trump wants to raise entry fees to national parks from $25 dollars to $70 dollars (then regular Americans will no longer be able to afford to visit national parks.) https://newrepublic.com/article/1455...national-parks
On the campaign trail Trump said he would "end the opioid epidemic in America" and "spend the money needed for drug treatment." But that was a huge lie (Trump instead is trying to put more low level drug offenders in the corporate prisons that supported his and the republicans political campaigns.)
This needed to be reposted. Trump's $100,000 donation is nothing more than "look at me!" when in reality, his actions do nothing to stem the opioid epidemic.
Person worth billions gives away $100k. News at 11.
nice sarcasm ....how much have you donated???
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