When President Donald Trump sprung former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández from a 45-year prison term he was serving after being convicted of conspiring to smuggle a whopping 400 tons of cocaine into the United States, his most senior White House aide was among the last to be informed.
According to The Wall Street Journal, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and other top advisers were given no advance notice of his decision to issue what he called “a full and complete pardon” to Hernandez, who was described by one witness at his trial of having boasted of plans to “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses.”
