Donald Trump, fighting drug-runners from South America, is, shockingly, showing mercy on one – and no, of course, not some rando clinging to life on the side of fishing boat.
The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, was convicted in the U.S. in 2024 for conspiring to traffic more than 400 tons of cocaine and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
But Trump wrote on his money-losing social-media site that Hernández was, “according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” so he’s going to set free a man who helped move more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. in exchange for millions in bribes from major traffickers, among them Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
Hernández served as president of Honduras from 2014 to 2022, his rise in politics funded by narcoterrorists.
According to the Department of Justice, Hernández was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world dating to his early years in Honduran Congress.
His election wins in 2013 and 2017 were marred by scandal, but Trump recognized Hernández as the winner in his re-election effort despite widespread allegations of fraud; Hernández was losing the election until election authorities stopped releasing results and ultimately declared that he won another term.
Color Trump jealous on that.
Hernández is a big fan of the U.S. – during his trial, it was revealed that he’d said he wanted to shove drugs “right up the noses of the gringos” by flooding the United States with cocaine.
That’s the guy Trump is pardoning.
Wonderful.
Kinda feels like what might be going on here is, our president is killing off one set of drug-runners, to help the other.
“It’s the same old story from this administration: no plans to actually make our communities safer or more prosperous, only ridiculous – and likely corrupt – schemes to reward wealthy criminals,” U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said in a statement.
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