Trump, whose pardon left critics confused amid his administration’s crackdown on drug trafficking in the U.S. and abroad, initially told a reporter on Sunday that he didn’t know who she meant when asked about pardoning a “notorious drug trafficker.”
“You know you’ve been pardoning too many people when you’re like, ‘I’m sorry, which notorious drug lord are we talking about? At least give me the first letter, or we’ll be here all night!’” Johnson quipped.
After seemingly tying Hernández’s case to a “Biden administration setup” while offering no evidence to support such a claim, Trump attempted to clarify his decision to reporters further.
“You take any country you want. If somebody sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life,” Trump said. “And that includes this country, OK, to be honest. I mean, if somebody does something wrong, do you put the president of the country in jail?”
The clip was met with cheers and applause from the “Daily Show” crowd.
“Clearly, Trump is worried about a slippery slope here. It’s like that classic poem: ‘First, they came for the wildly corrupt presidents, and I said nothing, because that would be admissible in court,’” said Johnson in a nod to the famous post-World War II poem.
Check out more of Johnson’s Wednesday monologue on “The Daily Show.”
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