Just days after the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) awarded Donald Trump a newly-invented " Peace Prize ," his Department of Justice moved to drop charges against Hernán López who had been “convicted of scheming to pay millions of dollars in bribes in exchange for the lucrative broadcast rights to soccer tournaments,” The New York Times reported Wednesday.

As Scott Horton noted (below), The Times somehow managed not to connect any dots between the award Trump has been craving (never mind the war crimes his administration is committing) and the sudden decision to drop charges against López.

López was the head of a Fox Sports broadcasting unit who was convicted in 2023 of “money laundering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy. Prosecutors had said Mr. López c

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