Making Cocaine Great Again.
Trump did that by bringing the price of cocaine down by almost 50 percent.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Trump’s crackdown on fentanyl suppliers left an open path for a cocaine kingpin to step in, making coke cheaper and as pure as ever. So while Trump may have disrupted the Sinaloa cartel, Mexico’s largest fentanyl trafficker, Nemesio “Mencho” Oseguera, has stepped in to fill the void. Now, cocaine prices have fallen by nearly half compared to five years ago, with a gram now costing around $60 to $75.
In the 1980s, Trump was vouching for a big-time distributor of cocaine.
This probably isn’t what conservatives mean by RETVRN, their demand that we reject modernity and embrace tradition, but Trump is definitely taking us back to the 1980s, which is when, coincidentally, Trump was vouching for a big-time cocaine trafficker to get him a lighter sentence.
In 1985, Joseph Weichselbaum was indicted for heading a huge cocaine operation, but he also happened to run the helicopter service Trump used to bring people to his Atlantic City casinos to the tune of $2 million per year. Trump wrote to the judge, calling Weichselbaum a “credit to the community” and “conscientious, forthright, and diligent.”
While lower-ranking members of the drug ring were slapped with 20-year sentences, Trump’s conscientious and forthright pal only served 18 months. Did we mention that while he was awaiting sentencing, Weichselbaum lived in Trump Plaza in an apartment owned by Trump himself? And that he moved to Trump Tower after he was released?
So let’s give Trump credit for bringing down the price of at least one drug, not a legal drug, but a drug. It could be that he is watching Colombian narco movies and saw that Pablo Escobar was, at one time, one of the richest men in the world. Maybe crypto is not bringing him as much as he wants.
