If someone or some organization can win an award for hypocrisy, the Trump regime would win in a landslide. Recently, US President Donald Trump has pardoned Juan Orlando Hernandez, a former president of Honduras and a convicted drug trafficker known as the‘Narco-Dictator’ who was convicted by a grand jury in New York City for importing 400 tons of cocaine and weapons into the United States. According to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Mr. Hernandez was convicted “for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses.” Let that sink in for a minute, Hernandez helped import more than ‘400 tons’ of cocaine and weapons into the United States, and Trump pardoned him, at the same time, a new war is on the table in Washington to remove Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro for allegedly sending drugs into the United States. This is hypocrisy on steroids.

The Department of Justice published a Press Release on June 6, 2024, titled, ‘Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses.’ The following statement explains in a nutshell what Hernandez was clearly involved in: 

As President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández abused his power to support one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world, and the people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Thanks to the diligent work of the Justice Department’s agents and prosecutors, Hernández will now spend more than four decades in prison. The Justice Department will hold accountable all those who engage in violent drug trafficking, regardless of how powerful they are or what position they hold

The evidence against Hernandez was undeniable:  

As the former two-term president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández had every opportunity to affect positive change for his country,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “Instead, Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras. Now, after years of destructive narco-trafficking of the highest imaginable magnitude, Hernández will spend 45 years where he belongs: in federal prison

However, Trump is fighting “Narco-terrorists” from Venezuela because he is concerned about the American people, right?  When Trump first announced on September 2nd, that the US Navy hit an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean, he said that a “kinetic strike against positively identified Tren de Aragua Narco-terrorists in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility” and that the attack took place while the boat was “at sea in International waters transporting illegal narcotics, heading to the United States.” Trump boasted that “the strike resulted in 11 terrorists killed in action” he continued, “TDA is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, operating under the control of [Venezuelan President] Nicolas Maduro, responsible for mass murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and acts of violence and terror across the United States and Western Hemisphere.”

Fox News, one of the mainstream media outlets who is cheerleading for a war on Venezuela reported that Trump is prepared to order direct attacks, “on land” inside Venezuela, warning that the Nicolás Maduro regime has already sent “killers, murderers … gang members” and other violent offenders into the U.S. during past years of mass migration” Trump continued, “We’re knocking out drug boats right now at a level that we haven’t seen,” and that “Very soon we’re going to start doing it on land too.”

Trump claimed that “We know every route. We know every house. We know where they manufacture this crap, the poison … they’ve been feeding us.” This made me think that if the US military started bombing Venezuela, and they hit a civilian target and murder innocent people, will Trump conveniently claim that drug dealers were hiding there? That will be the same excuse Israel uses when they hit civilian targets in Gaza claiming that Hamas was hiding among civilians and using them as human shields.

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