"You know, in the old days if you were a spy"

[dalton99a]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-2010-wikileaks-sources-death-penalty-article-1.2936675

Donald Trump in 2010 suggested WikiLeaks members and their sources should get the ‘death penalty’
By Chris Sommerfeldt
New York Daily News • Jan 05, 2017 at 12:30 am

"They should try that young private and they should frankly either put him in jail for the rest of his life or maybe get the death penalty," Trump said of Bradley Manning, the Army soldier who had at the time just been charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks. "You know, in the old days if you were a spy and that's what he is you'd get the death penalty."

"You look at WikiLeaks, I mean, in China, if this would've happened the people would get a bullet through their head within 24 hours and here in this country we're embarrassed, everybody's embarrassed," he said. "We're calling the leaders of other countries horrible names — how do you go back and negotiate with people with that. That's just not the way life works. As far as I'm concerned it's spying, it's espionage."

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[temporary311]

1. In the old days,

if you tried to overthrow the government and failed, your head ended up on a spike somewhere very public.

[TheRealNorth]

2. +100

As has been stated elsewhere, if BLM or Antifa tried to do what the neofascist Republicans did on 1/6, they would not have gotten as far before the police opened up on them.

[Brainfodder]

3. What he said works for me on him NOW, please proceed, AIM!

Yeah death penalty and look here he added back firing squad, how nice & timely and I thought he never did anything good!