In an interview, Trump is asked how pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted in a massive international drug trafficking scheme, squares with zero tolerance on drug trafficking. He says he knows "very little about him," that people he knows "asked me to do it and I said I'll do it." Asked if it sends the wrong message to drug dealers, he answers: "No, I don't think so."
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- Who
- Trump
- Where
- interview - Politico interview, re-uploaded by a reaction channel
- Original footage
- GetFitUnivercity · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 50 seconds, unedited within the cut
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- 153 on Instagram
Read the transcript
You pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and let him out of prison, even though he was convicted in a massive international drug trafficking scheme. How is that zero tolerance on drug trafficking? Well, I don't know him, and I know very little about him. Other than people said it was like an Obama -Biden type setup where he was set up. He was the president of the country. The country deals in drugs like probably you could say that about every country. And because he was the president they gave him like 45 years in prison. And there are many people fighting for Honduras, very good people that I know. And they think he was treated horribly and they asked me to do it and I said I'll do it. Do you think they could send the wrong message to drug dealers? No, I don't think so. Look, I think when you weaponize government, they've weaponized their government just like they did over here. I'm one of the people that survived but they weaponized the government.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.