In 2013, Juan ran for prez, a candidate for the Honduran National Party. Much like DL's 2020 and 2024 campaigns, Juan ran on a ticket to have the military police the streets.

Juan wasn't the most popular guy, plagued by claims of fraud, but he ran a series of relentless attacks on his political opponent Xiomara Castro, the current Honduran prez.

Like the big fella, Juan claimed Castro planned to defund the police. Later campaign audits found Juan had knocked off cash from the Honduran social security system. In his next campaign, Juan was found to have topped up his finances from the Honduran Ministry of Health. Anyhoo...

In 2017, Juan ran for re-election again, despite the Honduran constitution banning the re-election of sitting or former leaders. Juan had gotten around this by stacking the Supreme Court with friendly judges - sound familiar?

Juan's political influences included Opus Dei and the US Heritage Foundation, responsible in the US for Project 2025. Juan didn't just legalize prayer in schools, he made it compulsory, along with the police and army. Abortion and same sex marriage were prohibited not just in law, but in the constitution.

Juan was well behind in the polls, loathed by voters for his military crackdowns, widespread corruption and connections, known even then, to drug cartels. When the majority of the votes were counted and his opponent was well ahead, Juan's team shut down the election's computers. Later that week, he announced his victory - by a modest margin of 1.7%.

Suck on that, leftards.

Protesters hit the streets. Juan sent his troops in to knock some sense into them. When that didn't appear to be working, Juan approved the use of live rounds. The next day, the military fired into a crowd, killing 20 protesters and bystanders. Juan's forces rounded up 800 people, sent them to the cells and used a little tough love to set them straight.

Fair's fair, Juan was only seeking to carry out the National Party's "Christian humanist" platform, with its five main principles of common wealth, dignity of the human person, equality, solidarity and subsidiarity.

Up in the US, members of congress became concerned. They asked Rex Tillerson, the Secretary of State, to do something. When they got nowhere with Rex, 30 of them wrote to DL himself, demanding he “suspend all security assistance to Honduras”.

DL ignored them. His Chief of Staff hit the fake news to spell out the big fella's goals in Central America.

Look, John Kelly said, let's give these Central American dictators a go. He'd talked to Juan Hernandez only recently, John said. He's "a great guy, a good friend."

Kelly was clearly repeating DL's description of his other good friends, MBS, Erdogan and Kim Jong Un, all great guys in their own way. During his short time as prez, DL appeared to have developed a fondness for head-kickers.

In 2018, Juan's brother Juan Antonio Hernández, known as Tony, was arrested in Miami on guns and drug charges. Like his brother, Tony was also a politician, a member of the Honduran congress.

Turns out Tony was a bit of a player, cooking up deals between various criminal syndicates and drug traffickers. When the DEA got their hands on Tony's handwritten books, his fate was sealed. In 2021, Tony was found guilty of drug trafficking, given a life sentence and ordered to pay $138.5 million in fines.

When the DEA went through the books and made more arrests, they pieced together a network of criminal organisations and crime bosses. Right up at the top of this chain was Tony's brother, the big fella's good friend Juan.

Turns out Juan had spent his entire political career trafficking drugs. From 2014 to 2022, Juan ran Honduras as a narco-state, tasking the Honduran military and police with the mission of feeding the US's insatiable desire for illicit drugs.

When the DEA went through Tony's phone, they discovered that all Juan had ever wanted to do, he said, was “shove the drugs right up the gringos’ noses”.

He did too. All up, Juan was found to be responsible for trafficking 360 tonnes of coke into the US - a haul worth more than a tril

Meanwhile, Juan pitched himself to the State Department and DEA as the region's anti-drug guy, promising to be the big fella's man in Honduras. From time to time, he'd sling them some hapless drug mule to keep up appearances. He'd hit church each Sunday with his family, always happy to pose for the fake news.

On 14 Feb 2022, it all came crashing down, when the Policia Nacional surrounded his home with agents of the DEA. The following day, the Honduran prez was marched into the Supreme Court of Honduras for two extradition hearings. After he lost his appeal on March 28, Juan was extradited to New York.

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Luke 17  KJV

[28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

[29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

[30] Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.