Hi there, everybody.

It's 4 o'clock in New York.

It's pop quiz time.

Don't worry.

This one's easy.

Try to think about what the following people have in common.

First, Ross Ulbrick, sentenced to life in prison 10 years ago for building what was

at the time, The single largest digital black

market for illegal drugs and other illicit items. Then there's Larry Hoover, Chicago gang boss,

convicted in 1997 of conspiracy, extortion, and money laundering. The third name is Garnett

Gilbert Smith. He's a Baltimore drug kingpin found guilty of charges related to distributing

cocaine. And finally, this one's really easy. It's been in the news lately, Juan Orlando Hernandez,

the former Hunter and president. He was convicted just last year in a drug trafficking case that

suggested he'd help cartels move some 400 tons of cocaine through his so-called narco state

of a country, all of it bound for the United States and our citizens. Now, what these men have

in common, if you didn't guess it already, other than very serious drug-related charges,

is that every one of them was pardoned by Donald Trump, just since he's been president the second time.

And if you're wondering, wait a minute, that doesn't make sense. The Trump administration is right now

an apologetic and its seemingly extrajudicial killings of suspected drug smugglers at sea,

all of it ostensibly in the name of reducing the flow of

illegal drugs to U.S. citizens in our cities and towns, well, then you're on to them.

None of it makes sense.

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