In a gobsmacking interview released on Tuesday, President Donald Trump was asked about his eyebrow-raising pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández.

He was convicted of running a massive, state-protected cocaine trafficking operation that funneled 400 tons of drugs into the United States while he simultaneously took bribes from cartels and weaponized Honduran security forces to protect the trade.

As the Justice Department said at the time, this was “one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world”—and that wasn’t hyperbole.

That 400 tons amounted to 4.5 billion individual doses of cocaine. Hernández once boasted, “We are going to stuff the drugs up the gringos' noses, and they're never even going to know it.”

Even in the pantheon of ques

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