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It’s Monday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Monday, December 1 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
1:00 PM (Added to the schedule)
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room  On Camera
4:00 PM
The President signs Congressional Bills
Oval Office Closed Press

According to Congress.gov, these are the current bills that have been presented to the President Attempting to Get us into War:

11/25/2025S.J.Res.80 [119th] – A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to “National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska Integrated Activity Plan Record of Decision”.
11/25/2025S.2392 [119th] – Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2025
11/25/2025H.R.2483 [119th] – SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025
11/25/2025H.R.2316 [119th] – Wetlands Conservation and Access Improvement Act of 2025
11/25/2025H.R.998 [119th] – Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act
11/25/2025S.260 [119th] – Bottles and Breastfeeding Equipment Screening Enhancement Act
11/25/2025H.R.695 [119th] – Medal of Honor Act
11/21/2025H.J.Res.133 [119th] – Requesting the Secretary of the Interior to authorize unique and one-time arrangements for displays on the National Mall and the Washington Monument during the period beginning on December 31, 2025, and ending on January 5, 2026.
11/21/2025H.R.1512 [119th] – Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act

Washington Post reported Hegseth committed war crimes (allegedly–for legal reasons).

Washington Post (gift link 11/28/2025):

The longer the U.S. surveillance aircraft followed the boat, the more confident intelligence analysts watching from command centers became that the 11 people on board were ferrying drugs

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave a spoken directive,according to two people with direct knowledge of the operation. “The order was to kill everybody,” one of them said.

A missile screamed off the Trinidad coast, striking the vessel and igniting a blaze from bow to stern. For minutes, commanders watched the boat burning on a live drone feed. As the smoke cleared, they got a jolt: Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck.

The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack — the opening salvo in the Trump administration’s war on suspected drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere — ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, two people familiar with the matter said. The two men were blown apart in the water.

Hegseth’s order, which has not been previously reported, adds another dimension to the campaign against suspected drug traffickers. Some current and former U.S. officials and law-of-war experts have said that the Pentagon’s lethal campaign — which has killed more than 80 people to date — is unlawful and may expose those most directly involved to future prosecution.

[snip]

Since that first attack, the Pentagon has hit at least 22 more boats, including one semisubmersible, in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean, killing another 71 alleged drug smugglers, according to officials and internal data seen by The Washington Post.

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At the time of the Sept. 2 strike, Bradley headed Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC, tasked with the military’s most sensitive and dangerous missions, often working with counterparts in the CIA. Since then, Bradley has been promoted to lead U.S. Special Operations Command, JSOC’s parent organization, which oversees elite units across the military.

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In briefing materials provided to the White House,JSOC reported that the “double-tap,” or follow-on strike, was intended to sink the boat and remove a navigation hazard to other vessels — not to kill survivors, according to another person who saw the report.

A similar explanation was given to lawmakers in two closed-door briefings, according to two congressional aides. That explanation has prompted frustration among some members of Congress who say they believe the Pentagon was deceptive in its description of events, the aides said.

[snip]

“The idea that wreckage from one small boat in a vast ocean is a hazard to marine traffic is patently absurd, and killing survivors is blatantly illegal,” said Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts), a Marine Corps veteran and vocal Trump critic who received a classified briefing from Pentagon officials on the strikes in late October with other members of the House Armed Services Committee. “Mark my words: It may take some time, but Americans will be prosecuted for this, either as a war crime or outright murder.”

The boat in the first strike was hit a total of four times, twice to kill the crew and twice more to sink it, four people familiar with the operation said.

In subsequent strikes on alleged traffickers that left no survivors, the U.S. military has also fired multiple missiles to remove boats from the waterways, severalpeople familiar with the matter said.

[snip]

Speaking a day after the first strike, Hegseth told Fox News he watched the “live” video feed. “We knew exactly who was in that boat. We knew exactly what they were doing, and we knew exactly who they represented. And that was Tren de Aragua, a narcoterrorist organization designated by the United States, trying to poison our country with illicit drugs.”

But in classified briefings to members of Congress, Pentagon officials have not provided any specific names of traffickers or syndicate leaders they have targeted, lawmakers have said, nor have they publicly released further information beyond surveillance videos of the strikes themselves.

Current and former officials within the U.S. military and DEA have expressed doubt that all 11 people aboard the first vessel were complicit in trafficking.

[snip]

Trump and the Pentagon said the Sept. 2 strike targeted members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua but have not provided evidence to support those claims. In subsequent strikes, the administration has referred to the alleged smugglers as members of “designated terrorist organizations” — a blanket term that lacks detail.

There are also gaps in the videos the administration has released of the strikes. Some show little beyond an initial violent explosion. There has been no public release of a subsequent strike video, and the Pentagon has not fulfilled a bipartisan request from lawmakers to see unedited footage — making it impossible to verify any of the administration’s claims.

The lack of transparency is a major obstacle to government accountability for its use of force, [Todd] Huntley said. “Really the only oversight,” he said, “is public and political pressure.”

Washington Post (gift link 11/28/2025).
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The President Who Pardons Drug Dealers announced he intended to pardon the former President of Honduras

If Tito Asfura wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive. If he doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras!

Additionally, I will be granting a Full and Complete Pardon to Former President Juan Orlando Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly. This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success.

VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Fuck that guy. 11/28/2025.

The New York Times explains who the drug dealer is President Pardons Drug Dealers Pardoned in the hopes to sway the upcoming Honduras election.

New York Times (gift link–11/29/2025):

He once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.” He accepted a $1 million bribe from El Chapo to allow cocaine shipments to pass through Honduras. A man was killed in prison to protect him.

At the federal trial of Juan Orlando Hernández in New York, testimony and evidence showed how the former president maintained Honduras as a bastion of the global drug trade. He orchestrated a vast trafficking conspiracy that prosecutors said raked in millions for cartels while keeping Honduras one of Central America’s poorest, most violent and most corrupt countries.

Last year, Mr. Hernández was convicted on drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison. It was one of the most sweeping drug-trafficking cases to come before a U.S. court since the trial of the Panamanian strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega three decades before.

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His own trial showed in grisly detail how Mr. Hernández had promised to crack down on drug gangs, all the while partnering with them instead, according to statements by prosecutors and witnesses.

Devis Leonel Rivera Maradiaga, a former leader of a gang called Los Cachiros, who admitted to being involved in the deaths of 78 people, testified that he had bribed Mr. Hernández with $250,000 delivered to the president’s sister, Hilda, in exchange for protection.

Another trafficker testified that he had personally delivered a payoff, saying: “I paid $250,000 as a bribe to Juan Orlando Hernández.”

Mr. Hernández was convicted of drug trafficking and weapons conspiracy in a room packed with Hondurans eager to see his downfall.

New York Times (gift link–11/29/2025).

More hours later Hegshit responded to the Washington Post reporting. Typical of the cosplaying Defense Secretary he called the reporting “fake news”.

The text:

As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory, and derogatory reporting to discredit our incredible warriors fighting to protect the homeland.

As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be “lethal, kinetic strikes.” The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy narco-boats, and kill the narco-terrorists who are poisoning the American people. Every trafficker we kill is affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization.

The Biden administration preferred the kid gloves approach, allowing millions of people — including dangerous cartels and unvetted Afghans — to flood our communities with drugs and violence. The Trump administration has sealed the border and gone on offense against narco-terrorists. Biden coddled terrorists, we kill them.

Our current operations in the Caribbean are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict—and approved by the best military and civilian lawyers, up and down the chain of command.

Our warriors in SOUTHCOM put their lives on the line every day to protect the Homeland from narco-terrorists—and I will ALWAYS have their back.

It’s the tweet. 11/28/2025.

As always he attempts to make this an attack on the military and not directed at him.
Narrator: It’s about Hegshit.

Hegshit went on to post this without irony:

President Who Doesn’t Know Anything was asked about the Washington Post reporting on his way back to D.C., for Florida.

Reporter:
And can you talk a little bit about the strikes and the controversy around Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
I don’t know anything about it. He said he did not say that, and I believe him, 100%.

Reporter:
The Washington Post —

President I Don’t Know Anything:
He said he did not say that, and I believe him, 100%.

Reporter:
So you don’t know if there was a second strike to —

President I Don’t Know Anything:
You’re talking about the two men?

Reporter:
The second strike to kill the two men after they were injured after the first strike?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
No. He said he didn’t do it. He never said that. I believe him, 100%.

Reporter:
Would you be okay with that if he did?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
He said he didn’t do it, so I’d have to make that decision.

Reporter:
Would you be okay with that if he did?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
He said he didn’t do it, so I’d have to make that decision.

Reporter:
Mr. President, just for clarity, On the, on the Venezuela boat strike. If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, wounded in the first strike. Are you thinking that would be legal? Do you think that that’s [Inaudible]

President I Don’t Know Anything:
I don’t know that that happened. And Pete said he did not want them. He didn’t even know what they were talking about. So we’ll look at, we’ll look into it, but no, I wouldn’t have wanted that. Not a second strike. Uh, the first strike was very lethal. It was fine that, if there were two people around, but Pete said that didn’t happen.

Reporter:
Does that make you lose?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
I have great confidence.

Reporter:
Would you say there’s no second strike?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
I don’t know. I’ve gotta find out about it. But, uh, Pete said he did not order the death of those two men.

Reporter:
Do you have any concerns about how those boat strikes have been carried out at all?

President I Don’t Know Anything:
Very little. Because you can see the boats. You can see the drugs in the boats. And each boat is responsible for killing 25,000 Americans. So, uh, I, I, and they’re doing an amazing job.

Reporter:
Mr. President —

President I Don’t Know Anything:
And you know, we’re getting, you just look at the numbers. The amount of drugs coming into our country by sea is infinitesimal compared to what it was just a few months ago.


Asked about his pardoning a drug dealer he said it was a “Biden setup” adding well, “I don’t mean Biden. Biden didn’t know he was alive”.

Reporter:
Uh, Mr. President, you’ve made so clear how you wanna keep drugs out of the U.S.

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
Right.

Reporter:
Can you explain more about why you would pardon a notorious drug trafficker?

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
Well, I don’t know who you’re talking about. Which one?

Reporter:
Juan Orlando Hernandez.

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
Well, I was told, I was asked by Honduras. Many of the people of Honduras said it was a setup by the Biden administration. I don’t mean Biden. Biden didn’t know he was alive, but it was the people around the desk when he was there, which was very little time. The people of Honduras really thought he was set up, and it was a terrible thing.

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
He was the president of the country, and they said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country. They said it was a setup by the Biden administration. I looked at the facts and I agreed with them.

Reporter:
What evidence can you share that he was set up and that he wasn’t?

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
Take any country you want. If somebody sells drugs in that country, it doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.

Reporter:
Mr. President, can I clarify. Do you think the U.S. —

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
That includes this country, to be honest. If somebody does something wrong, do you put the president in jail? They said it was a setup. It was a setup. You have a big race next week. I think it’s a very important race.

President Who Pardons Drug Dealers:
It’ll be interesting to see Honduras. That’s what you’re talking about, right?

Reporter:
Correct. Yes.

“Biden setup”

In April of 2022 the U.S. Embassy in Honduras issued the following statement:

Hernández Allegedly Partnered with Some of the Largest Cocaine Traffickers in the World to Transport Tons of Cocaine through Honduras to the United States.

Juan Orlando Hernández, aka JOH, 53, the former President of Honduras, will make his initial appearance tomorrow, April 22, before Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron in federal court in New York after being extradited today from Honduras. A federal court unsealed drug-trafficking and weapons charges today in a superseding indictment against Hernández.

The indictment charges that from at least in or about 2004, up to and including in or about 2022, Hernández, the former two-term President of Honduras, participated in a corrupt and violent drug-trafficking conspiracy to facilitate the importation of hundreds of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States. Hernández allegedly received millions of dollars to use his public office, law enforcement, and the military to support drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and elsewhere.

“The Justice Department is taking a comprehensive approach to protecting our communities and our country from violent crime,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The Department is committed to disrupting the entire ecosystem of drug trafficking networks that harm the American people, no matter how far or how high we must go.”

“Juan Orlando Hernández, the recent former President of Honduras, allegedly partnered with some of the world’s most prolific narcotics traffickers to build a corrupt and brutally violent empire based on the illegal trafficking of tons of cocaine to the United States,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “Hernández is alleged to have used his vast political powers to protect and assist drug traffickers and cartel leaders by alerting them to possible interdictions, and sanctioning heavily armed violence to support their drug trade. I commend the career prosecutors of the Southern District of New York for their tireless efforts to disrupt the entire illicit drug trafficking ecosystem, from street-level dealers to a former world leader, and everything in-between.”

“Today’s extradition clearly shows that the DEA will stop at nothing to pursue the most powerful political actors who engage in drug trafficking, violence, and corruption,” said Administrator Anne Milgram of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). “DEA’s multi-year investigation revealed that Juan Orlando Hernández, the former President of Honduras, was a central figure in one of the largest and most violent cocaine trafficking conspiracies in the world. Hernández used drug trafficking proceeds to finance his political ascent and, once elected President, leveraged the Government of Honduras’ law enforcement, military, and financial resources to further his drug trafficking scheme. This case should send a message – to all political leaders around the world that trade on positions of influence to further transnational organized crime – that the DEA will stop at nothing to investigate these cases and dismantle drug trafficking organizations that threaten the safety and health of the American people.”

According to the superseding indictment, Hernández protected some of the largest drug traffickers in the world, including his brother and former member of the Honduran National Congress, Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado (Hernández Alvarado), aka Tony Hernández, from investigation, arrest, and extradition; caused sensitive law enforcement and military information to be provided to drug traffickers to aid them in transporting tons of cocaine through Honduras bound for the United States; directed heavily-armed members of the Honduran National Police and Honduran military to protect drug shipments as they transited Honduras; and sanctioned brutal violence.

As a congressman, then President of the Honduran National Congress, and finally the two-term President of Honduras, Hernández was allegedly paid millions of dollars in cocaine proceeds which he used to enrich himself, finance his political campaigns, and commit voter fraud while the people of Honduras endured conditions of poverty and rampant violence.

Since at least 2004, drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras have worked to receive tons of cocaine sent to Honduras from, among other places, Colombia and Venezuela, via maritime and air routes. These organizations then transited the cocaine westward in Honduras toward its border with Guatemala and eventually north to the United States. During this time, members of this conspiracy transported more than 500,000 kilograms of cocaine through Honduras and into the United States. In order to ensure that these massive cocaine shipments safely passed through Honduras, the largest drug-trafficking organizations in the region obtained the support and direct protection of certain prominent Honduran public officials, including Hernández. In return, these traffickers paid millions of dollars in bribes to Hernández and other public officials.

As alleged, as a congressman and then President of Honduras, Hernández partnered with the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín Guzman Loera (Guzman Loera), aka El Chapo, among other people. In or about 2013, as Hernández was campaigning to become president, he accepted approximately $1 million in drug-trafficking proceeds from Guzman Loera. Hernández sent Hernández Alvarado and an associate, armed with machine guns, to collect the $1 million bribe from Guzman Loera. In exchange, Hernández promised to continue protecting the Sinaloa Cartel’s drug-trafficking activities in Honduras.

As alleged, in or about 2013 and 2014, Hernández partnered with violent and large-scale Honduran cocaine trafficker Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez. During multiple meetings between Hernández and Fuentes Ramirez, Fuentes Ramirez bribed Hernández for protection and security for his drug-trafficking activities. Hernández informed Fuentes Ramirez, in part, that Hernández wanted Fuentes Ramirez to partner with Hernández Alvarado, who was managing drug-trafficking activities in Honduras, and that Hernández was going to “stuff the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.”

In addition to Guzman Loera and Fuentes Ramirez, other prolific traffickers in Honduras and Guatemala provided Hernández with bribes from drug proceeds to support his political career in exchange for Hernández’s protection and partnership in their drug trafficking. Hernández used these cocaine-fueled bribes to ensure his continued ascendancy in Honduran politics, including his election as President in 2013 and 2017. In connection with both the 2013 and 2017 elections, Hernández directed members of this conspiracy to bribe politicians and election officials with drug proceeds to ensure that Hernández won the presidency.

In 2018, Hernández Alvarado was charged in the Southern District of New York in connection with his participation in this conspiracy, and he was subsequently convicted after trial on Oct. 18, 2019. While Hernández Alvarado’s case was pending, Hernández continued to coordinate closely with large-scale traffickers, including Fuentes Ramirez, who continued to pay Hernández bribes for protection. Further, during Hernández Alvarado’s trial, drug ledgers belonging to another former Honduran drug trafficker and co-conspirator, referred to in the superseding indictment as “CC-2,” were introduced into evidence. These ledgers contained, among other things, notations with Hernández Alvarado’s name and “JOH,” Hernández’s initials, along with corresponding entries reflecting large payments to Hernández and Hernández Alvarado. Approximately one week after Hernández Alvarado was convicted, prisoners armed with machetes and a firearm murdered CC-2 in a Honduran prison to prevent CC-2’s potential cooperation against, among others, Hernández.

On Jan. 27, 2022, Hernández was charged in the superseding indictment and a warrant was issued for his arrest.

On Feb. 15, 2022, Hernández was arrested and detained by Honduran authorities at the request of the United States. The United States thereafter submitted a formal extradition request, which the Honduran Magistrate Judge granted. Hernández appealed the extradition decision to the Honduran Supreme Court. On March 28, the Honduran Supreme Court denied his appeal. On April 6, the Ad Hoc Tribunal of the Constitutional Chamber of the Honduran Supreme Court determined Hernández’s final appeal was inadmissible. On April 13, the Government of Honduras certified the completion of the extradition proceedings consistent with the previous court orders, resulting in Hernández’s surrender to the United States on April 21.

Hernández is charged with three counts: (1) conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison; (2) using and carrying machine guns and destructive devices during, and possessing machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of, the cocaine importation conspiracy, which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison; and (3) conspiring to use and carry machine guns and destructive devices during, and to possess machine guns and destructive devices in furtherance of, the cocaine importation conspiracy, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after considering the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.

The DEA’s Special Operations Division, New York Strike Force, and Tegucigalpa Country Office investigated the case. The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided valuable assistance in securing Hernández’s arrest and extradition.

U.S. Embassy in Honduras. 04/21/2022.

The Department of Justice released the following statement in June of 2024 following the conviction of the drug kingpin.

The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, also known as JOH, was sentenced today to 540 months in prison and 60 months of supervised release for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses. The former two-term president was in office until weeks before his extradition to the United States in April 2022. Hernández was convicted on March 8 following a three-week jury trial. 

“As President of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández abused his power to support one of the largest and most violent drug trafficking conspiracies in the world, and the people of Honduras and the United States bore the consequences,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Thanks to the diligent work of the Justice Department’s agents and prosecutors, Hernández will now spend more than four decades in prison. The Justice Department will hold accountable all those who engage in violent drug trafficking, regardless of how powerful they are or what position they hold.”

“The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is relentlessly focused on dismantling drug trafficking organizations that threaten the safety and health of the American people,” said DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. “Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández financed his political career with drug trafficking profits and abused his authority as President of Honduras to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States. Let me be clear, political actors who use their power to traffic in drugs and corruption will be brought to justice in the United States.”

“As the former two-term president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández had every opportunity to affect positive change for his country,” said U.S. Attorney Damian Williams for the Southern District of New York. “Instead, Hernández helped to facilitate the importation of an almost unfathomable 400 tons of cocaine to this country: billions of individual doses sent to the United States with the protection and support of the former president of Honduras. Now, after years of destructive narco-trafficking of the highest imaginable magnitude, Hernández will spend 45 years where he belongs: in federal prison.”

According to court documents, from at least in or about 2004, up to and including in or about 2022, Hernández, the former two-term president of Honduras and former president of the Honduran National Congress, was at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world. During his political career, Hernández abused his powerful positions and authority in Honduras to facilitate the importation of over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S. Hernández’s co-conspirators were armed with machine guns and destructive devices, including AK-47s, AR-15s, and grenade launchers, which they used to protect their massive cocaine loads as they transited across Honduras on their way to the United States, protect the money they made from the eventual sale of this cocaine, and guard their drug-trafficking territory from rivals. Hernández received millions of dollars of drug money from some of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking organizations in Honduras, Mexico, and elsewhere, and used those bribes to fuel his rise in Honduran politics. In turn, as Hernández rose to power in Honduras, he provided increased support and protection for his co-conspirators, allowing them to move mountains of cocaine, commit acts of violence and murder, and help turn Honduras into one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

During his time in office, Hernández publicly promoted legislation and the efforts he purported to undertake in support of anti-narcotics measures in Honduras. At the same time, he protected and enriched the drug traffickers in his inner circle and those who provided him with cocaine-fueled bribes that allowed him to obtain and stay in power in Honduras. For example, Hernández selectively upheld extraditions by supporting and taking credit for extraditions to the United States of certain drug traffickers who threatened his grip on power, while at the same time promising drug traffickers who bribed him and followed his instructions that they would remain safe in Honduras. In addition, Hernández and his co-conspirators abused Honduran institutions, including the Honduran National Police and Honduran military, to protect and grow their conspiracy. Among other things, members of the conspiracy used heavily armed Honduran National Police officers to protect their cocaine loads as they transited through Honduras towards the United States for eventual distribution. Members of the conspiracy also turned to violence and murder to protect and grow their drug trafficking enterprise, attacking and murdering rival traffickers and those who threatened their grip on the Honduran cocaine trade.

Several of Hernández’s co-conspirators have already been convicted and sentenced in connection with this investigation. Among others, Hernández’s brother, Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado, also known as Tony Hernández, was convicted after trial in October 2019 and sentenced to life in prison, and Geovanny Fuentes Ramirez, a violent cocaine trafficker who met with Hernández on multiple occasions to discuss their drug trafficking partnership, was convicted after trial in March 2021 and sentenced to life in prison. Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, also known as El Tigre, the former chief of the Honduran National Police, pleaded guilty to his participation in the cocaine importation conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 1, and Mauricio Hernández Pineda, a former member of the Honduran National Police and Hernández’s cousin, pleaded guilty to his participation in the cocaine importation conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on July 2.

In total, Hernández and his co-conspirators trafficked more than 400 tons of U.S.-bound cocaine through Honduras during Hernández’s tenure in the Honduran government. This amounts to well over approximately 4.5 billion individual doses of cocaine.

The DEA investigated the case.

The Justice Department’s Office of International Affairs provided valuable assistance in securing Hernández’s arrest and extradition.

Trial Attorneys Andrea Broach and Jessica Fender of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Jacob H. Gutwillig, David J. Robles, Elinor L. Tarlow, and Kyle A. Wirshba for the Southern District of New York prosecuted the case.

Department of Justice. 06/26/2024.

But sure, it was a “Biden setup”…


Asked about his weird post that suggested he was closing Venezuela airspace to the world…

Reporter:
Mr. president on Venezuela. Can you tell us more about why the airspace above Venezuela should be considered closed?

President Who Thinks They Rule the World:
Yeah, because we consider Venezuela to be not a very friendly country. They sent millions of people, really, and probably a number in excess of that. A lot of those people shouldn’t be in our country. From jails, from gangs and from drug dealers. All of the people that came into our country shouldn’t have been in our country, causing a lot of problems.

Reporter:
Does your warning mean —

President Who Thinks They Rule the World:
And drugs.

Reporter:
Does your warning mean that an airstrike is eminent, or should we not read it that way?

President Who Thinks They Rule the World:
Don’t read anything into it.

President Who Thinks They Rule the World:
Don’t read anything into it.

Reporter:
So it should not be interpreted as an imminent airstrike?

President Who Thinks They Rule the World:
Don’t read anything into it.


President I have no idea said he had no idea what part of his body doctors were examining following his MRI.

President I have no idea:
We’re gonna get outta here before something happens. Uh, they asked about my MRI.

Reporter:
Oh.

President I have no idea:
MRIs are very, you know?

Reporter:
If Governor Walz asked you to release the MRI records.

Reporter:
Will you tell us what it was for?

President I have no idea:
Governor Walz? You mean the incompetent Governor Walz? If they wanna release it, it’s okay with me to release it. It’s perfect.

Reporter:
What was the reason for it?

Reporter:
What were they looking, what —

President I have no idea:
It’s like my phone call where I got impeached. It’s absolutely perfect. If you wanna release it, it’s okay. Do you wanna have it released NewsNation?

Reporter:
Yes, please.

President I have no idea:
Failing, failing NewsNation.

Reporter:
No, sir, we’re not failing.

President I have no idea:
NewsNation is doing lousy, by the way. If you wanna have it released, it’s okay. I’ll release it.

Reporter:
Yes, please.

President I have no idea:
Absolutely.

Reporter:
Can you tell us what they were looking at?

President I have no idea:
For what? Releasing?

Reporter:
No, no, no. What part of your body was the MRI looking at?

President I have no idea:
I have no idea. It was just an MRI. It wasn’t the brain, because I took a cognitive test and I aced it. I got a perfect mark. Goodbye everybody. You too.


Flash News

Trump Admin keeps losing in Court…


President Mostly Always Wrong is surrounded by people saying he’s “always right”…

Snips

Although Trump hated being on the road, the travel took him out of the Manhattan skyscraper emblazoned with his name in gold and into many struggling, disgruntled communities. Before and after rallies, he would meet with local officials, law-enforcement officers, and activists, as well as supporters who’d paid to get a photo with the candidate. Sometimes he visited local businesses or ordered takeout. The people Trump met clued him in to the issues his supporters cared about, and in a few cases, they became part of new stories he told (some so confounding—with cries of “sir” and tears allegedly running down faces—that his critics questioned if these people even existed).

But it has been many months since Trump hosted a full-on campaign-style rally. He has opted instead to travel abroad, golf at his private clubs, and dine with wealthy friends, business leaders, and major donors. Beyond the rallies, Trump has dramatically scaled back speeches, public events, and domestic travel compared with the first year of his initial term. And that lack of regular voter contact has contributed to a growing fear among Republicans and White House allies: that Trump is too isolated, and has become out of touch with what the public wants from its president.

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Everyone around Trump, and everything he is seeing on TV and on his phone, is telling him that he’s right. But poll after poll suggests that Americans believe Trump is now getting it wrong and has lost focus on what got him elected.

“People voted for him to lower prices, to bring manufacturing back, to stand up to those taking advantage of them,” a close Trump ally told me on the condition of anonymity so as not to antagonize the president. “They didn’t vote for him to build a damn gilded ballroom. He’s not hearing them.”

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After both Republican candidates lost, a number of GOP leaders urged the president publicly and privately to reconnect with his supporters. They have quietly complained to one another—and at times to West Wing officials—that, in the past two months, Trump has squared his attention on a (faltering) retribution campaign against political foes; a potential war with Venezuela; masked ICE raids that have terrorized immigrant communities; and the demolishing of the White House’s East Wing to construct an opulent ballroom to better entertain wealthy donors. None of those issues, Republicans said, was high on voters’ minds.

But the weeks since have brought little sign that Trump has changed his focus. Although his administration has hosted a couple of White House events meant to demonstrate that Trump is intent on lowering prices, the president himself has shown little willingness to acknowledge the problem, instead calling the affordability crisis a “hoax” and a “con job.” That worries Republicans, who are well aware that Democrats feel that the issue could be their path back to power in next year’s midterm elections.

The Bubble-Wrapped President by The Atlantic. Gift Link. 12/01/2025

Speaking of polls…

It’s not just one poll that show the President is failing…

Real Clear Polling.com (this is his polling average):


Christmas comes to the White House…


I’m aware that the White House has a new feature where they blast the media as fake news. I haven’t had a chance to read through it and see just how much propaganda they have really posted. I’m gonna guess it’s all propaganda.

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