‘Looks like massive fraud’: Trump’s many pardons spark fury

by · Australian Financial Review

Joe Miller, Stefania Palma and Kaye Wiggins

It took dozens of special agents the best part of a decade to bring Juan Orlando Hernández to justice for flooding US cities with cocaine. Then, in a single social media post last week, Donald Trump set the former Honduran president free.

“People risked their lives for this investigation,” said a former agent at the US Drug Enforcement Administration, one of several law enforcement officials involved in tracking Hernández who voiced their frustration to the Financial Times. “Why are we taking a tough stance against [Venezuela’s] Nicolás Maduro … and letting this guy go?”

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