https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kpm0rvxepo Donald Trump has said that he will pardon the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted of drug trafficking charges in a US court last year.
The US president said Hernández had been "treated very harshly and unfairly" in a social media post announcing the move on Friday.
Hernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Trump also threw his support behind conservative presidential candidate Nasry "Tito" Asfura in the Central American nation's general election, due to be held on Sunday.
Hernández, a member of the National Party, who served as Honduras's president from 2014 to 2022, was extradited to the US in April 2022 to stand trial for running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to smuggle hundreds of tons of cocaine to the US.
During his trial, prosecutors in New York said Hernández ran the Central American country like a "narco-state" and accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers to shield them from the law.
He was also ordered to pay a fine of $8m (£6m) as part of his sentence.
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Polls indicate this year's Honduran election remains a toss-up between three candidates including Asfura, the former mayor of Tegucigalpa and leader of the conservative National Party.
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>>1461204 >No quarter to "traffickers", kill them all! No survivors! >But pardon the bosses, they gave me some money Bets this is another case where Trump barely even knows the guy's name but signed a pardon anyway?
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>>1461206 If it's an autopen the pardon is invalid.
The more likely story is the guy paid trump a big enough bribe since this is the textbook pay 2 play crime syndicate masquerading as a presidency.
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There isn't a political dirty trick on the books that could offend my sensibilities that Dems could pull to get total power in the USA at this point. As long as a freshly appointed Dem judge is willing to say with a straight face that it's legal, I don't care what they do to the function of government as long as they slam the door behind them if Republicans ever risk getting back in power.
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>>1461212 >There isn't a political dirty trick on the books that could offend my sensibilities that Dems could pull to get total power in the USA at this point. There never was and that's the problem. Dems are shitty and so are their supporters.
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>>1461213 >There never was Can you go ahead and show me Dems doing political dirty tricks proactively any time since 2009?
And no, asking nicely for Trump to give back the stolen nuclear secrets doesn't count.
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>>1461221 Yes. Are you retarded?
red drugs= good blue drugs= bad
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Venezuelan drug dealers are socialist drug dealers.
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>>1461222 >Are you retarded? Are you? Yes isn't an example.
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>>1461221 >And no, asking nicely for Trump to give back the stolen nuclear secrets doesn't count. Plus trump already sold the top secret nuclear documents to the Saudis for 2 billion and Biden, being another limp dick center right democrat, did jack shit.
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>>1461227 You'd have to be retarded to think they haven't.
That's why I'm not even going to engage with your horseshit.
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Ok, I really have trouble to keep up with Trumps mindset… he suddenly pardons a convicted EX-President that was jailed for heavy drug trafficing and the whole criminal corrupt package you can think of… but at the same time he want to kill a President Maduro for doing…well the exact same stuff?
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>>1461234 Venezuela isn't some kind of drug trafficking haven like Trump says it is and it's weird that he's using that excuse as justification for the coming war. At least 80% of the illegal drugs imported to America come from Mexico.
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>>1461235 >from through
There is production in Mexico too of course, but a lot of what crosses the US/Mexico border crossed at least one other border to get there.
Ironically, if Trump actually did hit any real drug running boats transiting from Venezuela, their payload was most likely Europe bound or even just for tourists in the Caribbean.
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>>1461237 Besides cocaine, everything is manufactured in Mexico now. They can grow poppies and pot and import Chinese chemicals without any the help of other countries. Shortening the supply chain means more profits for the cartels.
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>>1461234 The logical conclusion is that he was pardoned in exchange for intel if you believe in the logical process.
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>>1461211 The only people against Trump are the radical woke mind virus zombies. Trump is playing the long game and trolling the commies like he always does.
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>>1461232 Slink away, pathetic little troll
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https://i.postimg.cc/0jLDL13W/trump-mamdani.png 'Mamdani is a very rational man'
-Trump
Trump loves a communist, whose policies are very rational or he wouldn't have said that about
Mamdani in the Oval Office to the world's press.
In soon to be Soviet America, trolled is you.
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>>1461232 I accept your concession.
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>>1461241 So how is pardoning a literal drug trafficking politician and helping them get elected president playing the long game?
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>>1461247 You have to forgive the trust the plan dipshits for thinking Trump is playing 5D chess when the entire Republican party has been bending over backwards to protect Trump and clean up after his constant stream of bed-shitting diarrhea for the past decade to prevent his rabid base of sycophantic toe-suckers from lynching them, or worse, becoming apolitical.
Wait, no you don't have to forgive them. But their position is at least understandable if you remind yourself these are people that can barely tie their own shoes.
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MAGAtards are cheering on Trump and his war vs. Venezuela. Why? Because they're "communist" and "it won't be a long war!". Newsflash: Vietnam was communist too. Still are to this day. US has diplomatic relations & trade with them. Trump referred to Mamdani - condemned as a communist by MAGAts - as "A very rational man".
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>>1461254 Cool story vatnik. We're gonna bomb 'em and you can't do anything about it.
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>>1461254 >Vietnam was communist too. Still are to this day. Setting aside the fact that they dissolved their centrally planned economy
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>We're gonna bomb 'em >no more foreign wars -Trump
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>>1461259 He won’t actually declare war, so it d-d-doesn’t count. Or maybe just call it a “special military action” instead.
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Trump praises a communist mayor of NYC thus giving tacit approval of him, and you can't do anything about it.
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>>1461241 Trump's approval rate is at 38%, and that's including the rusted-on Republican voters who literally only care about the R next to his name.
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Trump needs to reduce the number of USSC justices to a manageable level. Three or five.
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>>1461262 Even Nixon's approval rating was 45%: and that was just before he resigned when Watergate was so bad for him in terms of Senate/House support that disappeared, so 38% shows how bad things are for Trump.
And to think: prior to that, Nixon was elected with such a landslide, with 60+% of the popular vote.
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>>1461265 Nixon kept a lot of his bad shit in the closet and had a lot of legitimately good/popular policies. I could see people saying "well, he's unscrupulous, but he's deescalating the Cold War, and he's working on stagflation." Like I used to think Nixon was a good president, even if he was unscrupulous, up until I learned about his talks with the North Vietnamese during Johnson's term, bombing of Cambodia, and Southern Strategy. Even Hitler had high approval ratings through most of his reign, since he was credited with ending the depression and bringing dignity and strength back to Germany (never mind that the economic model he used to achieve this was unstable and required the looting of Europe to stave off the collapse). As for Trump, generally speaking, bad but improving is better than good, but deteriorating for public approval, and things weren't necessarily "good" at the start of Trump's term to begin with.
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>>1461268 >>1461265 Nixon has to deal with a media that actually held him accountable.
If Nixon enjoyed a conservatively biased media like trump did, Watergate would ahve been buried and he never would have had to resign.
Likewise if trump existed in Nixon's era, he'd already be in prison for his glut of crimes he commit after he got pardoned.
