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

[Rhiannon12866]

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.

[BSDemon]

1. According to information I got,

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.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Good Grief! And yet we're told that ICE is targeting those who committed crimes...

[BSDemon]

3. Their election will be determinant

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.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Thanks! Does this mean that he'll no longer be trafficking tons of drugs??

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

[BSDemon]

6. Hernandez is much more than drugs, he's corruption at the highest level

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]

7. Thanks so much for the background, I knew nothing about him before he made the news

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]

8. welcome

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