President Donald Trump ordered a military strike on what he said was a boat full of narco-terrorists on their way to the United States with a load of drugs. (“Don’t Let Trump Expand the Definition of War,” New York Times, Sept. 8, p. A23)
President Trump is so opposed to traffic in drugs that the day after he was inaugurated for his second term, he pardoned Ross Ulbricht. He was serving a life term in prison for creating “Silk Road, a dark web market that used Bitcoin to facilitate millions of dollars in sales of heroin, cocaine and other drugs.” (“The Comeback Tour of a Crypto Overlord,” New York Times, Sept. 7, Sunday Business section, p. 4)
Then-candidate Donald Trump “made a promise to the Libertarian Party, whose members were some of Mr. Ulbricht’s staunchest supporters. If they vot