Trump THROWS His Own Lawyer Under the Bus to Free a Narco President
By now youâve heard the headline: Donald Trump pardoned convicted narco-trafficker and former Honduran president Juan Orlando HernĂĄndez.
But once you scratch the surface, the story gets so twisted it almost loops back on itself. Because the very case Trump now calls a âBiden witch huntâ was built under his own administration⊠by his own lawyer⊠whom he later promoted to a federal appeals court.
You canât make this up.
Back in August 2019, when Trump was still in the White House, the U.S. Department of Justice charged thenâHonduran president Juan Orlando HernĂĄndez with being at the center of a massive drug conspiracy. Federal prosecutors alleged he took $1.5 million in cartel money to win the presidency and helped move hundreds of thousands of kilos of cocaine into the United States.
And who led that case?
Not some âBiden deep stateâ operator.
It was Emil Bove â at the time a top federal prosecutor, later Trumpâs own criminal defense lawyer, then handpicked by Trump to sit on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. The guy Trump trusted with his own legal survival is the same guy who led the Hernandez prosecution Trump now pretends was an âunfair Biden hit job.â
During the trial, testimony was brutal. One of the most infamous lines attributed to HernĂĄndez:
âGet those drugs up the nose of as many gringos as you can and kill them.â
This wasnât a quick case. It was a years-long investigation involving the DEA, federal agents, and Honduran authorities. HernĂĄndezâs brother had already been prosecuted for working with El Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel. Hondurasâs own Supreme Court saw the evidence and agreed to extradite HernĂĄndez to the United States.
Under President Biden, the case went to sentencing. HernĂĄndez got 45 years in prison.
Fast forward to Trumpâs second term.
In front of cameras, Trump shrugged it all off:
âHe was the president and they had some drugs being sold in their country and because he was the president, they went after him. That was a Biden horrible witch hunt.â
Just like that, years of work by U.S. prosecutors, DEA agents, Honduran judges, and his own DOJ become, in Trumpâs telling, a fake case cooked up by Biden.
So for Trumpâs story to be true, one of two things has to be real:
Either his favorite lawyer and appointee Emil Bove was part of a âwitch huntââŠ
Or Trump is lying straight to his supportersâ faces and throwing his own guy under the bus to protect a convicted narco-president who flattered him.
And it gets even darker.
Shortly before the pardon, a fawning four-page letter lands on Trumpâs desk from none other than Roger Stone. The same Roger Stone whose entire brand is groveling, gaslighting, and getting himself out of trouble. The letter, according to reporting, is pure ring-kissing: over-the-top praise for Trump, whining about âBidenâHarris injustice,â and framing HernĂĄndez as a fellow victim of the system.
In any normal world, youâd laugh that off as parody.
In Trump World, it becomes policy.
Meanwhile, people inside the DEA are furious. They spent years building what they saw as a landmark case against one of the most powerful drug-linked leaders in the hemisphere â a man tied to 400,000â500,000 kilos of cocaine destined for the U.S. And with one signature, Trump nukes it, then smears the entire operation as illegitimate.
Even foreign leaders used this case as a propaganda tool. El Salvadorâs president Nayib Bukele once taunted the U.S. when Bove left DOJ, claiming it showed America wasnât serious about fighting traffickers. Now, with Trump pardoning HernĂĄndez and calling him a victim, that same Bukele is firmly in Trumpâs camp.
Itâs all one giant shell game: Authoritarians boosting each other while screaming âjusticeâ and âsovereigntyâ and âwar on drugsâ into the cameras.
Underneath the theater is a clear pattern:
If youâre poor, powerless, or on a boat off some foreign coast? Trumpâs crowd talks about shooting first and asking questions never.
If youâre a corrupt strongman who flatters him and signals loyalty? Suddenly youâre a victim of âwitch huntsâ and âunfair prosecutions.â
This isnât about justice. Itâs about building a global club of leaders who donât care about the rule of law, who trade in impunity, and who see institutions as obstacles, not guardrails.
In Honduras, current leadership has tried to crack down on trafficking and reclaim state control from cartels. That doesnât fit Trumpâs strongman-to-strongman model. So he reaches back, rewrites history, and blesses the man at the center of a narco-state project as some kind of wronged conservative ally.
The message to the world is loud and clear:
If you move poison into American communities but kiss the right ring, you get a second chance. If you spend your life trying to stop that poison, donât expect support from the man who calls himself âlaw and order.â
And thatâs why this pardon hits differently.
Itâs not just Trump helping out a friend.
Itâs Trump publicly siding with a cartel-connected ex-president over his own prosecutors, his own appointees, and the American communities those drugs were meant to destroy.
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