‘500 tons of cocaine’: Trump pardons trafficker who helped flood U.S. with drugs

Donald Trump keeps justifying the killing of more than 80 men on boats in the Caribbean, including two who were shipwrecked, as a way to save Americans from the deadly scourge of drugs. But then just this week, amidst this whole scandal, he pardoned a man who helped traffic more than 500 tons of cocaine into the US. Last year, the ex-president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was convicted here in the US for basically running his country like a narco state.The jury returned its verdict after a two-week ...