It is not often that both Democrats and Republicans unite — but it seems to be the case when it comes to keeping Donald Trump away from the Oval Office.
Democrats have been working overtime to attack Trump for his policies and controversial statements since he announced his candidacy.
However, Trump is also being slammed by multiple members of his party who believe he is not the right person for the job.
Newly leaked plans for what Trump’s potential second term might look like have surfaced via Rolling Stone, and they are alarming.
The ideas and policies that the billionaire would like to put in place will give liberals and conservatives more ammunition to try to deny him the presidency for a second time.
A member of Trump’s small political team told the media outlet that he is considering bringing back rules and laws from the dark ages.
According to the publication, Trump is looking forward to expanding the use of the federal death penalty and bringing back banned methods of execution, including showing condemned prisoners in the final moments of their lives.
If re-elected, Trump will restore firing squads and hangings and also consider the possibility of having deaths using guillotines. The sources, who spoke to the press, claimed that the former president discussed group executions.
Another insider revealed to the media outlet that in 2022, Donald Trump came up with the idea for a video/ad campaign meant to keep people from committing crimes.
Trump pushed the following vision for his video: “push for a federal revival of these execution methods and include footage from these new executions, if not from the exact moments of death.”
A person with direct knowledge of Trump’s astonishing plans explained: “The [former] president believes this would help put the fear of God into violent criminals. He wanted to do some of these [things] when he was in office, but for whatever reasons, didn’t have the chance.”
Trump’s spokesperson denied the claims about the video. That same spokesperson had another reaction when asked about Trump’s desire to revive firing squads and other ancient execution methods.
The spokesman shared this portion from Trump’s 2024 campaign announcement.: “Every drug dealer during his or her life, on average, will kill 500 people with the drugs they sell, not to mention the destruction of families. We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their pain.”
To push his third political campaign and mingle with MAGA voters, Trump held a fiery rally last fall where he boasted about bringing back the brutal old methods to execute lawbreakers.
In front of a roaring audience, Trump said: “And if [the drug dealer is] guilty, they get executed, and they send the bullet to the family, and they want the family to pay for the cost of the bullet,” Trump said at the rally. “If you want to stop the drug epidemic in this country, you better do that … [even if] it doesn’t sound nice.”
A former member of Trump’s administration said that the revelations are not new and added: “In conversations, I’d been in the room for, President Trump would explicitly say that he’d love a country that was totally an ‘eye for an eye — that’s a direct quote — criminal justice system, and he’d talk about how the ‘right’ way to do it is to line up criminals and drug dealers before a firing squad.”
The former Trump White House official continued: “You just got to kill these people,” Trump would stress.” He had a particular affinity for the firing squad because it seemed more dramatic, rather than how we do it, putting a syringe in people and putting them to sleep. He was big on the idea of executing large numbers of drug dealers and drug lords because he’d say, ‘These people don’t care about anything,’ and that they run their drug empire and their deals from prison anyways, and then they get back out on the street, get all their money again, and keep committing crimes … and therefore, they need to be eradicated, not jailed.”
The publication noted that during the final months of Trump’s first term, he oversaw a whooping 13 executions. In January 2021, as Joe Biden was getting ready to take over the White House, Trump oversaw three executions in four days.
There have been only three federal executions since 1963.
Former Attorney General Bill Barr was asked: “Were Trump and his administration putting more people to death had he won a second term in 2020?”
He replied: “Yes — that was the expectation,” Barr succinctly summarized in a phone interview.
Trump is currently dominating the GOP primary field.
