Trump says he’s bombing boats to stop drugs. But his latest interview with Politico exposes that excuse as a steaming pile of horse-bleep.
When confronted with his pardon of the former president of Honduras—a man convicted in a U.S. court of trafficking 500 tons of cocaine—and how the pardon casts doubt on Trump’s excuses for the bombings, Trump admits, "I don’t know him.… People asked me to do it, and I said I’ll do it."
That’s his entire process: mass murder at sea, casual corruption on land.
The president of the United States is shirking responsibility for his own pardons. Meanwhile, he’s labeled poor boat crews as "narco-terrorists," authorized secret strikes, and killed men clinging to wreckage without trials, without evidence, and without accountability.
Many questions remain, like who asked the president to pardon a convicted drug trafficker, and why did they have so much sway?
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The bombings with no legal basis |
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The fake "war powers" claims |
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The Pentagon’s refusal to release the video of that second strike |
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Trump’s threats of a ground invasion of Venezuela |
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Republicans are starting to squirm. Some even backed a defense bill provision to withhold travel funds from Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth until he coughs up the written strike orders.
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The president’s claims about the boat killings and his pardon of the Honduran ex-president in a new Politico interview should finally convince Republicans that they, and we, must get to the bottom of it all.
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