Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin squirmed and desperately tried to change the subject when asked Sunday on CNN about Donald Trump’s planned pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former president of Honduras.
Ironically, Mullin put his hypocrisy on full display just seconds after defending Trump’s increasingly hostile actions towards the nation of Venezuela, which the Criminal-in-Chief has accused of smuggling drugs into the United States.
“It’s Maduro that’s doing this, we’re not going to allow them to continue to use Venezuela as a terrorist country to ship in tons of drugs into the United States and continue to kill our brothers, our sisters, our friends and family on the streets!” Mullin declared.
“Now, they’re starting to fly [drugs] into the United States through [planes] that are being disguised as either commercial flights or private flights, and so the president has made it very clear, he’s shutting down the air space!” the senator declared.
That led “State of the Union” host Dana Bash to inquire, “[Trump] is clearly very concerned about Central and South American presidents allegedly trafficking drugs into the United States, so if that’s the case, why is he planning to pardon the former Honduran president who was convicted by an American jury of drug trafficking, who allegedly said according to testimony he would ‘shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos by flooding the United States with cocaine?’”
Mullin paused and tried to pivot to the subject of China, finally telling Bash, “Well… the particular circumstances of that, I’m not quite aware of. However, I do know we’re trying to build a relationship with Honduras, we’re trying to build relationships throughout South American and Central America because China has greatly influenced those countries in a negative way.
“I think by building new relationships and by allowing people to have a new beginning and showing good faith saying we’re going to work with you as long as you work with us… I wasn’t involved in the conversation that he had with the president of Honduras at the time, I believe there’s probably a good faith that is being stretched forth here.”
How in the hell is pardoning a convicted drug trafficker showing good faith? The guy flooded the U.S. with cocaine and yet he deserves to go free? If that’s the case, then shouldn’t the federal prisons be emptied of anyone convicted of drug offenses?
Just like Donald Trump, Sen. Mullin is a moronic hypocrite who needs to be dumped from office by voters. The sooner, the better.
