Schumer to Trump: Amnesty is a shame for one of the biggest drug traffickers – Mehr News Agency | RCO News Agency

According to the Mehr news agency, citing the Hill website affiliated with the US Congress, Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic minority in the US Senate, called Donald Trump’s pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez shameful.

Referring to the simultaneous amnesty of a drug trafficker and military action against Venezuela under the pretext of fighting smuggling, he said: We all know that Trump does many contradictory things; The White House is full of contradictions and hypocrisy, but pardoning one of the world’s biggest drug traffickers is shameful, wrong and dangerous even for Trump himself.

This democratic political activist added: Freeing a smuggler and at the same time targeting ships suspected of carrying drugs is a ridiculous act.

He clarified: the person pardoned by Trump was sentenced to transport 400 tons of cocaine to the United States. Meanwhile, Trump is targeting ships suspected of carrying drugs to prevent drugs from entering the United States; The work that increases the risk of America getting involved in the war with Venezuela.

Schumer continued: “Mr. President, you can’t say the slogan of fighting drug traffickers and cleaning the streets from drugs, and release a dangerous and convicted trafficker.” This sends a dangerous message to other criminals: if you have a good relationship with Trump, no matter how many drugs you bring to the streets, you will be pardoned.

In recent months, the United States has increased its military presence in the Caribbean Sea and on the border with Venezuela under the pretext of fighting drug traffickers.

Under the pretext of fighting drug traffickers, Washington is targeting ships crossing the borders of Venezuela. The White House has not provided any details on whether the people targeted in more than 20 raids in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific were actually smugglers. Experts say that even if the target is smugglers, such attacks are considered “extrajudicial executions”.