Pardoning ex-Presidente Jefe because 400 tons of trafficked drugs isn't like trafficking children

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Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025 Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025 at 5:42:37pm PST

bafkreifzfm3gsucutpfbp2ikovzmurn5r2sdif3trkia64kt4ph2x762xqjpeg1 — Nearly half a trillion dollars makes it worth it

Short-Attention-Span Security Theatre.

Installing a toll plaza on the “cocaine superhighway to the United States”

Donald Trump has said he will grant a pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the US on drug trafficking and weapons charges.

“I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump said on Friday in a post on Truth Social.

POTUS fluent in gibberish, not Spanish

In March of last year, Hernández was convicted in US courts of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to protect US-bound cocaine shipments belonging to traffickers he once publicly proclaimed to combat. Speaking during closing arguments at the trial, assistant US attorney Jacob Gutwillig said Hernández had “paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States”.

Hernández was sentenced last June and called his conviction wrongful. He had served two terms as the leader of the country of roughly 10 million people, and was considered a top US ally in Central America, particularly by the Trump administration.

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Trump says he’ll pardon a former Honduras leader convicted of taking millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers. A U.S. prosecutor said Juan Orlando Hernández “paved a cocaine superhighway to the U.S.”
More evidence that Trump’s threats against Venezuela have nothing to do with drugs.

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— Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) Nov 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM

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Are we going to be a country that lets a person meme and shitpost his way out of accountability for alleged war crimes, or do some things still matter? https://t.co/AWdJ8RbJeK
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Junior at the superhighway off ramp

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