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Rhiannon12866

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Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:07 AM Dec 10

Lawrence: Pardoning history's biggest drug dealers proves Trump doesn't care about drug trafficking - The Last Word



MS NOW’s Lawrence O’Donnell discusses Donald Trump’s new claim that he might send U.S. troops to Venezuela, describing it as “distraction bait” on a day another federal judge cleared the way for more of the Epstein files to be released. - Aired on 12/09/2025.
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Lawrence: Pardoning history's biggest drug dealers proves Trump doesn't care about drug trafficking - The Last Word (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Dec 10 OP
GOPers accused Clinton of staging distractions, but their guy has thoroughly embiggened the idea. eppur_se_muova Dec 10 #1
HE IS SELLING PARDONS TO DRUG DEALERS Captain Zero Dec 10 #2
How he can justify murdering those he insists are drug dealers while providing no evidence Rhiannon12866 Dec 10 #3

eppur_se_muova

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1. GOPers accused Clinton of staging distractions, but their guy has thoroughly embiggened the idea.
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 12:35 AM
Dec 10

Wag that dog !

Captain Zero

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2. HE IS SELLING PARDONS TO DRUG DEALERS
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 01:21 AM
Dec 10

TRUMP IS SELLING PARDONS TO RICH PEOPLE.

Those are the headlines.

All while he spends $2 million per missile to blow up small boats with no proven criminals on board, and claim he is conducting a war on drugs.

Rhiannon12866

(250,056 posts)
3. How he can justify murdering those he insists are drug dealers while providing no evidence
Wed Dec 10, 2025, 02:11 AM
Dec 10

While he pardoned a notorious drug dealer who was guilty enough to be sentenced to 45 years in prison for helping import 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. And as was said on MS NOW the other day, while drug dealer may be sentenced to prison, none of them received the death penalty.

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