Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s Embrace of Duterte’s Deadly War on Drugs in the Philippines
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Jeremy Scahill
co-founder of The Intercept and host of the new weekly podcast, Intercepted.
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In the Philippines, President Rodrigo Duterte has suggested he might impose martial law across the country, after declaring it this week in his native island of Mindanao. This comes as a transcript of the call of Trump praising Duterte for his controversial drug war was leaked and published by The Intercept. According to the leaked transcript, Trump said, “I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, bu...