Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of receiving millions in bribes and partnering with cocaine traffickers. He was convicted in Manhattan in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

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    Wait… he’s killing fishermen who might be trafficking drugs, but he pardons a major narco-boss? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?

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        Eh some arguably are but there are videos of the ones they think they’ll get the least blowback from and those are multi engineer v hulls with dozens of rectangular packages front to back. Those ones would be stopped either way since that’s traditionally been a red flag for drug trafficking. That said normally you stop the boats and arrest and attempt to turn them to get bigger fish in your net not the guys paid like a thousand dollars to drive boats. You want chemists and labs not jose the fisherman who couldn’t pay his bills and turned to crime.

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      Of course, he was a head of state. He shouldn’t have even been charged. Duh.

      I hope this strips off more MAGAts from the group.

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        If they even hear about this it will be filed under abstract concepts they don’t care about, like Honduras.

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    “This action would be nothing short of catastrophic and would destroy the credibility of the U.S. in the international community,”

    LOL. That ship sailed long ago, on November 6, 2024, when Americans elected a child rapist as a President.

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    I had to check the subtitle: yes, this person is in a US prison.

    It wouldn’t surprise me if Rump tried to pardon a corrupt ex-president in a different country.