By Hedelberto López Blanch* / Special Collaboration for Resumen Latinoamericano.
The arbitrary and criminal actions of convicted President Donald Trump are long and seemingly endless, as reflected in several articles by researchers and media outlets.
One of the latest actions demonstrating Trump’s innate arrogance was his pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, imprisoned in the United States for drug trafficking and serving a 45-year sentence, while at the same time threatening to bombard Venezuela with false accusations of being a narco-state.
Last year, Hernández was convicted by New York courts for exporting more than 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. Now Trump considers him an “angel” who only accepted millions of dollars to protect drug shipments and that the whole thing “was a setup by former President Joe Biden.”
The New York Times described in a lengthy article how Juan Orlando “boasted that they were going to shove drugs right under the Americans’ noses, and accepted millions of dollars in bribes from El Chapo Guzmán to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras.”
During the federal trial, the newspaper adds, testimony and evidence demonstrated how the former president maintained Honduras as a stronghold of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that, according to prosecutors, earned millions for the cartels, while keeping Honduras one of the poorest, most violent, and most corrupt countries in Central America.
What do you think? And now the convicted president Trump claims that the “young man” is not guilty.
The US president’s decision comes amid unjustified aggression against Venezuela and its constitutional president, Nicolás Maduro. Numerous warships have been stationed off the coast of the Bolivarian nation in the Caribbean for almost two months, launching attacks against boats accused without evidence of drug trafficking, resulting in the deaths of 83 people.
But let’s look at a brief summary compiled by experts from various media outlets regarding the countless misdeeds and abuses committed by a president who leads a powerful empire, albeit one in a state of decline.
It turns out that, although Trump has denied it, he flew seven times on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. Epstein was a wealthy financier and sex offender who associated with many famous and wealthy people and who mysteriously hanged himself in a US prison.
Trump has invoked the Fifth Amendment 97 times to avoid testifying in response to various accusations. He has been convicted 34 times for serious crimes and has been charged with 91 criminal offenses.
His record includes 26 accusations of sexual assault; he has declared bankruptcy six times to avoid paying debts and is credited with five exemptions from military service.
He also faces two impeachment trials during his previous presidential term; two companies have been convicted; a fake university was shut down; and a fake charity was closed.
The tycoon president had to pay $25 million in a fraud settlement; $5 million for a sexual assault verdict; $12 million for misuse of a fake charity; $93 million in a sexual assault sentence; and $400 million in another fraud sentence.
What do you think? A long and substantial list of misdeeds committed by President Donald Trump, who wants to rule the world in the style of an American Western. And if he were to reach the end of his term, we might ask ourselves: who will judge him? You, the reader, have the floor.
(*) Hedelberto López Blanch is a renowned Cuban journalist. He writes for the newspaper Juventud Rebelde and the weekly Opciones. He is the author of “Cuban Emigration to the United States,” “Secret Stories of Cuban Doctors in Africa,” and “Miami, Dirty Money,” among others.
SPECIAL THANKS TO THE AUTHOR: Hedelberto López Blanch
[ SOURCE: RESUMEN LATINOAMERICANO Y DEL TERCER MUNDO CUBA / EN RESUMEN ]
