https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kpm0rvxepoDonald 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.
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.Also in the running is Rixi Moncada, a former defence minister standing for the ruling left-wing Libre Party, and Salvador Nasralla, a television host with the centrist Liberal Party.Trump criticised Moncada and Nasralla on Friday, writing that the latter was "a boderline Communist" who was only running to split the vote between Moncada and Asfura.He characterised Asfura as "standing up for democracy" and praised him for campaigning against Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro, with whom Trump has engaged in a war of words in recent months.Nasralla has pledged to cut ties with Venezuela if he wins.The Trump administration has accused the left-wing Maduro - whose re-election last year was dismissed as illegitimate by many countries - of being the leader of a drugs cartel.It used countering drug trafficking as a justification for a military build-up in the Caribbean and has conducted strikes on vessels it says have been used for smuggling - though some analysts have described these moves as a means of pressuring Latin American leaders.Honduras has been governed since 2022 by President Xiomara Castro, who has forged close ties with Cuba and Venezuela.But Castro has maintained a co-operative relationship with the US, agreeing to preserve a long-running extradition treaty with it. Her country also hosts a US military base involved in targeting transnational organised crime in the region.
>>1461204>No quarter to "traffickers", kill them all! No survivors!>But pardon the bosses, they gave me some moneyBets this is another case where Trump barely even knows the guy's name but signed a pardon anyway?
>>1461206If 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.Turn Puerto Rico into 20 new states, bump SCOTUS to 50 seats, IDGAF. Trading back and forth control over the guard rails of government with Republicans has only led to generational damage to this country. We can revisit the issue of giving Republicans a fair shot at political power again after the current lot have been tried and served their sentences down to the staffer.
>>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.
>>1461213>There never wasCan 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.
>>1461221Yes. Are you retarded?
Venezuelan drug dealers are socialist drug dealers. This Honduras drug dealer is a conservative drug dealer so is acceptable, like the Sackler family and their oxycodone drug dealing
>>1461222>Are you retarded?Are you? Yes isn't an example.
>>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.
>>1461227You'd have to be retarded to think they haven't. That's why I'm not even going to engage with your horseshit.
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? Hmmm… why do I start to think that Trumps „War on Drugs“ is actually not about drugs at all?
>>1461234Venezuela 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.
>>1461235>fromthroughThere 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.
>>1461237Besides 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.
>>1461234The logical conclusion is that he was pardoned in exchange for intel if you believe in the logical process.
>>1461211The 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.
>>1461232Slink away, pathetic little troll
https://i.postimg.cc/0jLDL13W/trump-mamdani.png'Mamdani is a very rational man'-TrumpTrump 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.
>>1461232I accept your concession.
>>1461241So how is pardoning a literal drug trafficking politician and helping them get elected president playing the long game?
>>1461247You 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.
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".So someone at war with a communist country now but are friends with a communist country they were at war with decades ago, and said a communist mayor is rational: all by someone who had as part of their campaign last year 'No More Foreign Wars'. The orange Big Brother says 'We have always been at war with Oceania'.
>>1461254Cool story vatnik. We're gonna bomb 'em and you can't do anything about it.
>>1461254>Vietnam was communist too. Still are to this day.Setting aside the fact that they dissolved their centrally planned economy
>We're gonna bomb 'em>no more foreign wars -TrumpPick one
>>1461259He won’t actually declare war, so it d-d-doesn’t count. Or maybe just call it a “special military action” instead.
Trump praises a communist mayor of NYC thus giving tacit approval of him, and you can't do anything about it.
>>1461241Trump'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.
Trump needs to reduce the number of USSC justices to a manageable level. Three or five.
>>1461262Even 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.
>>1461265Nixon 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.
>>1461268>>1461265Nixon 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.
>>1461265>And to think: prior to that, Nixon was elected with such a landslide, with 60+% of the popular vote.To be fair, he had to cheat to achieve that.
>>1461265Looking at NPR/PBS surveys you need to add +20 to Trump to get any accuracy. Current NPR/PBS survey shows 36% approval.So, 36%=56% +- 5% Worst case, 51% approval.
>>1461265Polls are a fabrication to bandwagon morons
>>1461268>>1461269Honestly, I understand why the Republicans worship Trump like their own golden calf. He's all they have left. Ever since Obama's day, the Republicans have been on a steady losing streak; if the Left didn't self-sabotage themselves with the SJW movement, the Left would've continued winning. Conservatives have nothing to offer the average American other than religious/corporate platitudes, forever wars (>>1461200 : so much for 'No More Foreign Wars'), and a distinct lack of empathy towards the poor and needy. Trump is their only way to appeal to the common, low-IQ retard, and without him, they're lost.One day, we will all see it. When the Republicans lose Trump, either because he finally drops out of politics from all the stress, or he finally drops dead, the Republicans are fucked. They were already worthless before he came along, but now? After they stood by and clapped as he destroyed the country, its infrastructure, and its relationship with the world? They'll be even more hated.It's ironic. They tried to use Trump to save themselves, and he's doomed any chance for Republicans in the future to function. The only way the Republicans can last now is if the party sells out to some younger people who stand for completely different values than what the conservative old guard and MAGA believers do, but that will split the party further. The name of the party might live, but the actual party that it stands for now is living on borrowed time.
>>1461295Wrong/stupid. Starting at the base supposition.Shitty post.
the poster between this and >>1461295 is wrong/stupid and shitty
>>1461265Nixon's approval at watergate was 25%, not 45%.
>>1461308Nixon's approval at watergate was 24%, not 25%https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/richard-m-nixon-public-approval
>>1461204>Trump to pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug traffickingTherefore Trump likes drug traffickers
>>1461318It seems to me this is the same as Trump's handling of the economy.He uses his position to pick winners and losers in the legal markets based on who bribed him last, it makes sense he'd have a similar policy for drug cartels.I don't know enough about the cartels to know which one is benefiting from all of this, but they must be paying Trump handsomely.
Speculation here, please take it with a fistful of salt:He's using the endorsement to sink Tito's chance, so that LIBRE can win.Why would Trump want LIBRE, a far-left Anti-American party to win? It'll be used as casus belli to invade the country. Under no circumstance is Soto Cano Air Base to fall to Communist.China is thinking of making a canal to rival the Panama Canal, and it's the US's closest air base to stop it.
And the Pardon has been officially issued.
