Fighting Crime With Crime

 One of the Chaos administration's Big Lies is Crime.  Combatting crime is the stated rationale for the war on immigrants, the war on American cities they don't like, and the war crimes committed in the open sea ostensibly to fight criminal drug traffic.

And yet..Chaos continues to pardon actual convicted criminals.  Last week it was David Gentile, convicted of criminal fraud to the tune of over a billion dollars, defrauding over 10,000 investors, depriving many middle class victims of their life savings. The conviction, said the US prosecutor, is “a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.” 

But fraudsters have now received another message, just in time for the Christmas fraud season.

This was mere days after an even more notorious pardon: a former president of the Honduras who was convicted of taking bribes from a drug kingpin to enable him to export cocaine to the United States, with thousands if not millions of victims and ruined lives as a result.

Federal prosecutors called it a "sprawling conspiracy", causing "unfathomable destruction."  It took years and more than 1,000 witnesses, but Juan Carlos Hernandez was convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

The Chaos pardon came out of the blue.  Neither Hernandez or his attorneys had publicly requested it.  He did have an appeal scheduled for December.

So Chaos pardons a convicted purveyor of drugs in the United States, while ordering the military to shoot up small boats and even go back again to be sure to kill everyone aboard, without providing evidence let alone a prosecution or trial, off the coast of a country that is not known to export dangerous drugs to the United States.

One of the investigators on the Hernandez case called the pardon "lunacy."  It is that, and worse.  It dishonors the victims, and makes a mockery of such painstaking efforts to counter the international drug trade.  Now the deterrence of the law is weakened if not destroyed.

And why?  It wasn't immediately known what corrupt purpose these pardons may serve, particularly Gentile.  But the first and most pathetic reason is that these convictions happened during President Biden's administration, and Chaos is obsessed with trying to undo literally everything Biden did.  He cannot face what he obviously feels as the humiliation of Biden winning the 2020 election against him.  He is a terribly sick man, and this country and the world are paying a terrible price for his presidency.

It may well go beyond Biden--Chaos has been frantic to put his personal brand on the White House and every institution in Washington he can.  He certainly continues to try to undo everything President Obama did, but his targets of destruction go back to nearly every presidency before his.  He won't be happy until his face is not only on Mount Rushmore, but it is the only face there.