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struggle4progress

(126,683 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:30 AM Dec 2025

Could Donny be smuggling drugs?

Alice Marie Johnson ... appointed "pardon czar" by President Trump ... was convicted of multiple offenses, including money laundering, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, attempted possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and deliver structuring a monetary transaction, and conspiracy to commit money laundering ....

He put a one-time pusher and addict in charge of Americans' health. He set DOGE's ketamine freaks loose on hard-working public servants.



A habit of making pardons for drug lords.
Joe Price
Updated on December 4, 2025
Donald Trump has pardoned several criminal involved in the drug trade his second presidential term, including Michael R. "Harry-O" Harris, Ross William Ulbricht, Larry Hoover, and former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez ...
https://www.complex.com/life/a/backwoodsaltar/drug-dealers-donald-trump-pardoned
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usonian

(26,589 posts)
1. Every accusation is a confession.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:49 AM
Dec 2025

I also get an impression of money laundering (his specialty) and blackmail.

Among other innumerable crimes.

Johonny

(26,597 posts)
2. The assumption is they dont care about drugs
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:56 AM
Dec 2025

But they do care about putting a Trump puppet government in several countites in South America.

rampartd

(5,036 posts)
3. yep
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 05:16 AM
Dec 2025

at least one druggie kid flying around the world making deals. how closely do they inspect jr's plane?

Emile

(43,256 posts)
4. One thing I know about Trump, it's all about conning people out of a buck.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 05:28 AM
Dec 2025

He's been a crook his entire life. Smuggling drugs is not beneath his character.

Irish_Dem

(82,316 posts)
6. When he was running the sex ring with Epstein, there were drugs involved most certainly.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 05:43 AM
Dec 2025

The rich are used to sex and drug parties.
You cannot have one without the other.

Emile

(43,256 posts)
8. He likes acting like a NY Mafia Godfather. He could be demanding cartels for a payoff,
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:24 AM
Dec 2025

or he'll blow up their boats. Nothing is beneath this criminal.

Irish_Dem

(82,316 posts)
9. Yes this is half of what is going on. Trump wants a piece of the drug cartel.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:27 AM
Dec 2025

And will keep blowing up their drug mules until he gets it.

And he wants the Venezuelan oil as well.

Irish_Dem

(82,316 posts)
5. Maybe Trump is pardoning them so they can run his drug operation.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 05:42 AM
Dec 2025

He looks at the profits and wants some of the action.

haele

(15,593 posts)
7. Wouldn't doubt it
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 10:16 AM
Dec 2025

Just as the Reagan Administration was involved with drug running. Only difference I could see would be this Administration would demand a cut and wouldn't care if they had plausible deniability or not.

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