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U.S President Donald Trump condemned amid admiring countries like China for having a powerful death penalty to combat illegal drug dealing. He said he doesn’t believe the U.S is ready to adopt a similar process. The comments from the President were criticized by the human rights activists after he addressed the nation’s governors in a wide-ranging speech at the White House on Monday. Trump said he was impressed by the way China handling its drug cases. He said, “Criminal in China for drugs by the way means that’s serious. They’re getting a maximum penalty. And you know what the maximum penalty is in China for that, and it goes very quickly”.

Trump also said, “It’s interesting, where you have Singapore they have very little drug problem, where you have China they have very little drug problem. States with a very powerful death penalty on drug dealers don’t have a drug problem”. The chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, Garry Kasparov described the latest comments of Trump as the classic authoritarian line. He wrote in a tweet and said, “Give the murderers badges and give the thieves cabinet posts, then say crime is solved. And a fair trial in a dictatorship is an oxymoron”.

This is the classic authoritarian line. Give the murderers badges and give the thieves cabinet posts, then say crime is solved. And a fair trial in a dictatorship is an oxymoron. https://t.co/wrxmiBkLI0

— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) February 10, 2020

A Democrat from New Jersey, Bill Pascrell Jr. also predicted that not a single Republican in Congress will say a word in objection to the president’s comments. Pascrell said, ”Trump appeared to be casually saying our criminal justice system should more closely resemble ruthless dictatorships like the Chinese communist party”. A former White House adviser under Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes wrote in a tweet, “Maybe we should pay attention to the fact that Trump consistently praises the efficiency of totalitarian systems”. Trump formally requested in a 2018 memo that federal prosecutors consider the death penalty for anyone dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs.