Someone needs to explain this to me
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Trump pardons the former president of Honduras, who was convicted of conspiring to import cocaine into the US. After a long legal process and a jury trial, Hernandez was sentenced to 45 years.
Meanwhile, Trump has Hegseth going after alleged drug runners from Venezuela. No charges, no convictions, no legal process. We're just supposed to take his word.
I don't get it.
Background...
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, was critical of the pardon, saying Sunday on social media, "Why would we pardon [Hernandez] and then go after Maduro for running drugs into the United States? Lock up every drug runner! Don't understand why he is being pardoned."
"This is shocking," Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democrat of Virginia, said of the pardon on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan."
"He was convicted in a federal court in the United States," said Kaine, the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. "One of the bits of evidence was his statement that was picked up by those near to him that he wanted to shove drugs up the nose of gringos and flood the United States with cocaine, more than 400 tons. He was the leader of one of the largest criminal enterprises that has ever been subject to a conviction in U.S. courts, and less than one year into his sentence, President Trump is pardoning him, suggesting that President Trump cares nothing about narcotrafficking. Suggesting possibly that pardons are now for sale by this White House."
Mr. Trump defended the move to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday, claiming, "Many of the people of Honduras said it was a Biden setup. ... He was the president of the country, and they basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country. And they said it was a Biden administration setup, and I looked at the facts and I agreed with them."
When asked what evidence he had seen to indicate Hernandez's case was a setup, Mr. Trump said, "You take any country you want, if somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn't mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life."
