Schumer Torches Trump For Pardoning Ex-Honduras President: Shameful And Dangerous
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"You can’t have it both ways," the Senate Minority Leader said.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) torched President Donald Trump on Tuesday for pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.
Hernández, who was sentenced last year to 45 years in prison for his role in assisting drug traffickers move 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., was released from prison on Monday.
In a floor speech, Schumer called out the president for hypocrisy amid the Trump administration’s ongoing campaign against drug-trafficking networks and its unprecedented military strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean.
“We all know that Trump does a lot of hypocritical things — almost every day there is hypocrisy oozing from the White House — but pardoning one of the world’s biggest drug traffickers is egregious, shameful and dangerous, even for Donald Trump,” Schumer said.
The New York Democrat also called the move an “utter mockery” of Trump’s “supposed desire to root out all drug trafficking.”
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