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Munu

(31 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:26 PM Thursday

Soft on crime?

Trump pardons Honduran ex-president who was convicted of drug crimes (NPR)

President Trump has officially pardoned former Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernández, who US officials said was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.

A White House official not authorized to speak on the record confirmed the pardon was granted and the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed his release on Monday.

Hernández, who served two terms as the leader of the Central American nation, had been sentenced to 45 years for conspiring to import cocaine to the United States.

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Soft on crime? (Original Post) Munu Thursday OP
Friends with a lot of money and willing to spend it. Sneederbunk Thursday #1
So about the prospective war on narco-terrorism ... Munu Thursday #3
Ha! 2naSalit Thursday #2

Munu

(31 posts)
3. So about the prospective war on narco-terrorism ...
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 05:43 PM
Thursday

Now that I think of it ...

Trump isn't suppressing narco-terrorism, he's picking winners and losers.

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