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Tim Kaine: “The unconscionable Hernandez pardon followed another Trump…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Tim Kaine Goes Scorched Earth On Trump, Hegseth After Convicted Drug Trafficker Is Pardoned

Published | Video Starts at 02:12

Last Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, President Trump announced that he would pardon this notorious narco trafficking Kingpin after just one year serving his 45 year sentence in a federal penitentiary in West Virginia. Hernandez was released from prison yesterday. The unconscionable Hernandez pardon followed another Trump pardon of another notorious narco trafficker... he pardoned Ross Ulbricht. Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht was convicted in a federal court after a four week jury trial in 2015 of seven serious charges stemming from his operation of a criminal enterprise known as Silk Road. (02:12–02:28)

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