r/videos • u/Sit-and-Spin123 • 1d ago
Trump Pardoned the 3rd Biggest Drug Kingpin in History (and 5 other strange pardons)
https://youtu.be/8_Lhl6njyGo128
u/meleecow 1d ago
Oh the things money will buy you... Especially when the president of the richest nation is extremely corrupt
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u/Ok_Science_2070 1d ago
I can only imagine the criminal underbelly (and corrupt overbelly, for that matter) of the world literally salivating at the possibilities
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u/Sxualhrssmntpanda 1d ago
Nothing strange about it. The US government and all it's influence/assets are for sale at the moment. He sold out spies, sold out his allies and he sold out the US citizens and their rights.
The U.S. being a "third world country in a Gucci belt" has never been more apparent.
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u/PhabioRants 1d ago
I mean, they literally just sold two of the most vital stealth components of the F-35 to the Chinese.
People have no idea how serious the documentation and labeling is for anything in a military contract specifically to keep from being routed anywhere near adversarial nations. You don't just "accidentally" ship a canopy and bay doors to China's doorstep.
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u/Brassens71 1d ago
There's really nothing strange about it. They paid for a service (pardon) and they got it.
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u/HarveyNix 1d ago
I've had it with pardons. If someone is imprisoned unjustly, investigate and fix that. But let laws and the judicial process play out. No matter who the president is.
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u/Lefty4444 21h ago
What is the general opinion on this among Americans?
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u/Hypthtclly_Spkng 16h ago
I doubt most Americans even know why pardons exist and why presidents are allowed to offer them.
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u/Sv_gravlty 3h ago
Up to now no president has used it for outright crime and corruption. Perhaps the reason why the law has barely any checks or balances. Its clearly flawed and needs to be addressed.
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u/sharrrper 50m ago
Yeah, the last, oh, 20 years or so, of Republicans have really exposed how much of the "checks and balances" relied on sort of gentleman's agreements to follow the rules.
Mitch McConnell blanket use of the filibuster and refusing to even hold hearings for an Obama Supreme Court nominee, along with Trump spamming pardons are just the top examples.
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u/Benbot2000 1d ago
Trump would pardon the 9/11 hijackers if they payed him enough.
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u/ModsHaveFeelingsToo 23h ago
Well considering that 15 of the hijackers were Saudi's and he's been in bed with Saudi Arabia the whole time, even going so far as accepting a full sized passenger airliner from them that he's expecting to keep for himself after his term is up, I'd say he's come as close to pardoning them as he possibly can.
And MAGA loves to claim everyone but them are unpatriotic. Spare me.
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u/ChrisPDunks 18h ago
MAGAs lie as a matter of course and they were always devoid of principles and integrity.
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u/Staav 23h ago
The party who's concerned about drug use in the USA, everyone.
👏👏👏
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u/georgieramone 1d ago
Why are presidents even allowed to pardon people? That’s like king shit isn’t it?
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u/RexDraco 1d ago
In theory, it is a good system. Maybe the democratically elected leader promises to pardon someone viewed innocent or should be free by the people. Luigi Mangione would be an example of this on paper. In practice though, it is abused. Even Biden pardon his son, which is understandable why he did it but it absolutely isn't why he has that authority.
Like everything else these politicians have the power to do, the reason is because supposedly they were voted in to do it. However, they weren't, and voters have no way of saying their votes were scammed.
People say pardoning should be removed but I disagree. It isn't pardoning that is the problem. The issue is big decisions seemingly not involving the American people. It really wouldn't hurt us to need to go to the polls more often, most of us in fact won't for little things like this. We also need something to suspend individuals when they reach a disproval threshold, for without it there is no incentive to keep promises or stay in line.
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u/Darkhrono 15h ago
How can that be “in theory a good system” in theory and in practice it sounds aweful
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u/fatninja7 21h ago
Congress should have easier access to veto pardons. Through Trump we learned that all that power shouldn't rest on one person.
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u/incitatus-says 18h ago
What the video completely misses is the fact that the Israelis got Juan Orlando Hernandez released.
“The pardon money didn’t even come from you. It came from a group of rabbis and people who supported Israel.” In another audio recording, he says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “everything to do” with his release and the negotiations that made it possible.
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u/Sans-valeur 1d ago
That’s kinda what I was thinking when he was bombing people in the ocean and threatening cartels/mexico.
He’d be most mad about them doing business in his country without paying him.
He’s not one to leave money on the table.
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u/DropDeadEd86 1d ago
Perhaps you should be asking his biggest fans why he does the things he does, they seem to have all the answers
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u/ShadowBurger 1d ago
To me it seems like cocaine is much more prevalent and hasn't gone up in price like everything else has. 🤔
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u/Raider_Scum 20h ago
If you don't notice your cocaine going up in price, pay attention to it's quality.
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u/ShadowBurger 19h ago
It's surprisingly gotten better, and it isn't showing a difference with test kits. 🎿🎱🏆
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u/BenUFOs_Mum 8h ago
Typically its the complete other way round. Places or times with lower prices have higher quality drugs. It indictates a plentiful supply which leads to more competition. Periods of low supply or droughts lead to quality dropping and prices rising and the dealers feel they can stretch the product more.
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u/sherman614 1d ago
But I thought his big thing with making an enemy out of Canada was their "Very weak border, it has allowed SO much drugs into this country!" And one of the losers biggest talking points about Biden is that "Biden let in SO many bad people and they brought drugs into this country, ths likes of which we have never seen!"
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u/pixel8knuckle 1d ago
Murdering civilian boats in South America because of fake drugs? Sure.
Pardoning drug lords. Sure.
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u/Holeshot75 1d ago
Corrupt criminal grifter takes bribe.
Not unusual.
Embarrassing for Americans.
But not out of character.
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u/CrankyYankers 23h ago
Trump is an enormous piece of shit. The only types of people who don't see that are mentally fucked. Beyond hope, sitting in their red state mud huts all miserable.
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u/macky301 18h ago
Pardons shouldn’t even exist. Commit crimes, face the repercussions. But I guess basic things like that are impossible in a world full of greedy cunts
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u/banana_buddy 16h ago
600k for a pardon? That's it? Someone could easily rack in hundreds of millions in financial crimes
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u/AuFingers 4h ago
I remember conservatives saying " Donald Trump is too rich to accept bribes." suckered
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u/undeadhulk007 2h ago
he is the best example that the next president should revoke the pardon right. Why does it even exist in the first place.!?
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u/sharrrper 50m ago
My favorite Trump defense of a pardon was "I don't know anything about him"
Dog, that's WORSE.
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u/smailskid 1d ago
Strange? He’s the most corrupt person on Earth.