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The Big Scam: It Isn't About Crime or Drugs...
It's about power. Just like Trump's tariff scam, immigrants scam, etc etc. etc.
Trump reminds us that laws are for the little people - Dailykos
While the Trump administration insists that invoking the magic words “drug traffickers” justifies murdering people on the high seas, when it comes to actual big-time drug traffickers,...Donald Trump has quite the soft spot.
Trump has granted clemency to around 100 people for drug-related crimes between his first term and his current pardon palooza. This time around, he’s focused on bestowing his mercy upon the kingpins who oversee vast empires and can flood the country with drugs
... an actual trafficker who took bribes to help actual traffickers move 400 tons of cocaine—400 TONS OF COCAINE!—into the United States? Well, he’s just a widdle guy who was targeted by the mean Biden administration.
That’s basically the justification for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted for that bribery scheme and sentenced to 45 years in prison. But thanks to Trump, he walked free after just seven months.
Trump has granted clemency to around 100 people for drug-related crimes between his first term and his current pardon palooza. This time around, he’s focused on bestowing his mercy upon the kingpins who oversee vast empires and can flood the country with drugs
... an actual trafficker who took bribes to help actual traffickers move 400 tons of cocaine—400 TONS OF COCAINE!—into the United States? Well, he’s just a widdle guy who was targeted by the mean Biden administration.
That’s basically the justification for Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted for that bribery scheme and sentenced to 45 years in prison. But thanks to Trump, he walked free after just seven months.