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Rhiannon12866

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Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:59 PM Dec 4

'500 tons of cocaine': Trump pardons trafficker who helped flood U.S. with drugs - All In - MS NOW



Chris Hayes on the pardon of ex-Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández: Trump keeps justifying the killing of more than 80 men on boats in the Caribbean as a way to save Americans from drugs, but just this week he pardoned a man who helped traffic more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S. - Aired on 12/04/2025.
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'500 tons of cocaine': Trump pardons trafficker who helped flood U.S. with drugs - All In - MS NOW (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Dec 4 OP
According to information I got, BSDemon Dec 4 #1
Good Grief! And yet we're told that ICE is targeting those who committed crimes... Rhiannon12866 Dec 4 #2
Their election will be determinant BSDemon Dec 4 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author Rhiannon12866 Dec 4 #4
Thanks! Does this mean that he'll no longer be trafficking tons of drugs?? Rhiannon12866 Dec 4 #5
Hernandez is much more than drugs, he's corruption at the highest level BSDemon Dec 5 #6
Thanks so much for the background, I knew nothing about him before he made the news Rhiannon12866 Dec 5 #7
welcome BSDemon Dec 5 #8

BSDemon

(101 posts)
1. According to information I got,
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:21 PM
Dec 4

Hernandez plans to stay in the USA, claiming that going to Honduras "is too dangerous for him". So hardworking immigrants get deported yet narcos can stay legally un the USA.

BSDemon

(101 posts)
3. Their election will be determinant
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 10:52 PM
Dec 4

if Asfura wins, there will be a better environment for him to return. His family is planning to recover the properties they had confiscated and even sue the Honduran government.

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Rhiannon12866

(250,433 posts)
5. Thanks! Does this mean that he'll no longer be trafficking tons of drugs??
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:09 PM
Dec 4

Which, as you know, is the reason that the felon-in-chief is blowing up small boats near Venezuela...

BSDemon

(101 posts)
6. Hernandez is much more than drugs, he's corruption at the highest level
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:27 AM
Dec 5

He's part of many conspirations that have stolen money from hondurans, their Social Security crisis is one example. He tried to privatize heathcare and education, stole millions during COVID and presented himself illegally to a reelection in 2017. His party was called a "Narco party" by judge Castel and I am sure that he will try to recover power, if he is allowed back. Two of his key allies are hiding in Nicaragua. They became Nicaraguan citizens 6 months before the 2021 election, but they are eager to return to help him to continue to destroy that country.

Rhiannon12866

(250,433 posts)
7. Thanks so much for the background, I knew nothing about him before he made the news
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:48 AM
Dec 5

And he sounds much worse than a drug trafficker, even worse than the January 6th violent insurrectionists who the felon-in-chief also pardoned.

BSDemon

(101 posts)
8. welcome
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 07:37 AM
Dec 5

And as a side note, his police chief is also in the US facing justice for his multiple assassinations for Hernandez's cartel.

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