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Pete Buttigieg: “President Trump pardoned the president of Honduras, the…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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But if we're really serious about that, you know, we have yet to hear an answer from the White House on why the president, President Trump pardoned the president of Honduras, the ex-president who was convicted in an American courtroom of bringing in cocaine. I think 400, I can't even remember how many millions of tons of cocaine, of billions of individual doses of cocaine into the United States? (08:10–08:35)

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Asserts that President Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras, who was convicted of drug trafficking.

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