It was with profound frustration that I read in The Baltimore Sun that President Donald Trump has pardoned another drug kingpin — this one convicted in 2014 of distributing more than 1,000 kilograms of cocaine onto Baltimore’s streets (“ Trump grants clemency to Baltimore drug trafficker who ran multimillion-dollar ring ,” Dec. 9). A federal agent described the defendant, Garnett Gilbert Smith, as “one of the largest cocaine and heroin dealers to be arrested by the DEA in recent history.”

This has become a deeply troubling pattern from our self-styled law-and-order president. Just last week, he pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years for moving hundreds of tons of cocaine into America. The administration has failed to offer compelling rea

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