Trump’s Pardons
Thomas Allen
In a letter to the editor, Mr. S, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, criticized Trump’s pardons. Like him, I find several of Trump’s pardons questionable. For example, Trump pardoned Larry Hoover, who was serving multiple life sentences for his crimes of leading the Chicago-based drug syndicate operating in at least 35 states, selling more than $100 million of drugs each year in Chicago alone. Also, Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando, a drug trafficker, who was sentenced to 45 years for moving hundreds of tons of cocaine from his country into the United States. However, I fervently disagree with Mr. S about Trump pardoning the January 6 protestors.
Trump pardoning these drug kingpins shows that he is not warring against Venezuela because of narcotics. It is about oil, regime change, and imposing American hegemony. (As recent events have shown, narcotics were the excuse; confiscating Venezuelan oil, changing the regime, and making Lindsey Graham, who appears to be Trump's primary foreign affairs advisor, happy were the reasons.) Obviously, he is acting like a neoconservative. Many people voted for him because they thought that he opposed the neoconservative foreign policy, but he fooled them. Like most presidents in the last 100 years, Trump is a lying hypocrite.
Letter
Mr. S and Democrats who suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome distort Trump’s pardoning of 1500 political prisoners, the so-called insurrectionists of January 6, 2020.
The so-called insurrection that occurred on January 6 was the strangest in history. The insurrectionists showed up disorganized and without weapons. Moreover, the palace guards opened the doors and let them in. Some of the guards even escorted some of the insurrectionists around the building. If anyone were convicted of a crime, it should have been the guards.
If our Representatives and Senators thought that a disorganized, unarmed mob was trying to overthrow the federal government, why did they flee? Since they heavily outgunned the insurrectionists, why did they not stand and fight to save the government? Were they cowards? Did they believe that the federal government was not worth defending? Or, did they know that this was no instruction and, therefore, lied about it being one? At least one of these three options must be true. If they are cowards, they should not be in Congress. If they believe that the government is not worth defending, they should not be in Congress. If they have lied, they should not be in Congress. Consequently, none of these Representatives or Senators should be in Congress.
Copyright © 2026 by Thomas Coley Allen.
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