• Greene steps down Monday after dramatic falling-out with Trump over Epstein files
• Criticizes administration for targeting Venezuela but not Mexican cartels
• Questions pardon of Honduran president convicted of trafficking 400 tons cocaine

WASHINGTON (TDR) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) delivered blistering criticism of President Donald Trump’s Venezuela strike in one of her final acts before stepping down from Congress Monday, questioning the administration’s narco-terrorism justification while citing Trump’s controversial pardon of a Honduran president convicted of massive cocaine trafficking.

In a post to X on Saturday, Greene challenged the coherence of the administration’s drug enforcement strategy, pointing to what she characterized as glaring contradictions between military action against Nicolas Maduro and inaction against Mexican cartels.

“I’ve served on the Homeland Security Committee for the past three years,” Greene wrote. “I’m 100% for strong safe secure borders and stopping narco terrorists and cartels from trafficking deadly drugs and human trafficking into America.”

Questioning Anti-Drug Rationale

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The Georgia congresswoman, serving her final weekend in office after announcing her resignation in November following a bitter split with Trump, systematically dismantled the administration’s counter-narcotics narrative for the Venezuela operation.

“Fentanyl is responsible for over 70% of U.S. drug overdose deaths and fentanyl comes from Mexican cartels made with chemical precursors from China and trafficked across the U.S. Mexico border,” Greene stated, according to Mediaite.

“Mexican cartels are primarily and overwhelmingly responsible for killing Americans with deadly drugs. If U.S. military action and regime change in Venezuela was really about saving American lives from deadly drugs then why hasn’t the Trump admin taken action against Mexican cartels?”

The Department of Homeland Security has consistently identified Mexican drug trafficking organizations as the primary source of fentanyl entering the United States, with the synthetic opioid manufactured using precursor chemicals sourced from China.

Hernandez Pardon Contradiction

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Greene then highlighted what she described as the most damning contradiction in Trump’s drug enforcement approach: his December 1, 2025 pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

“If prosecuting narco terrorists is a high priority then why did President Trump pardon the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez who was convicted and sentenced for 45 years for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into America?” Greene asked. “Ironically cocaine is the same drug that Venezuela primarily traffics into the U.S.”

Hernandez was convicted in March 2024 by a U.S. federal jury in New York of conspiring to import more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States. Prosecutors described him as operating Honduras as a “narco-state” where he used the Honduran National Police and military to protect drug shipments.

U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel sentenced Hernandez to 45 years in prison in June 2024, calling him “a two-faced politician hungry for power” who pretended to fight drug traffickers while enabling them.

Among the bribes Hernandez received was approximately $1 million from Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the notorious boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, according to trial testimony reported by NPR.

Trump defended the pardon, telling reporters Hernandez had been “set up” by the Biden administration, though the White House has provided no evidence supporting that claim, according to FactCheck.org.

“Boy Were We Wrong”

In subsequent posts, Greene broadened her criticism to encompass what she characterized as Trump’s abandonment of his “America First” platform.

“Regime change, funding foreign wars, and American’s tax dollars being consistently funneled to foreign causes, foreigners both home and abroad, and foreign governments while Americans are consistently facing increasing cost of living, housing, healthcare, and learn about scams and fraud of their tax dollars is what has most Americans enraged,” Greene wrote.

“Americans disgust with our own government’s never ending military aggression and support of foreign wars is justified because we are forced to pay for it and both parties, Republicans and Democrats, always keep the Washington military machine funded and going,” she continued, according to CBS News.

“This is what many in MAGA thought they voted to end. Boy were we wrong.”

When Trump announced the U.S. will “run” Venezuela until a “proper transition” occurs, Greene responded with a facepalm emoji on X.

Final Days After Falling Out

Greene announced her resignation effective January 5, 2026, following Trump’s withdrawal of his endorsement in November 2025. Trump called her “Wacky” and a “ranting lunatic” after she pushed for release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

The split marked a stunning reversal for Greene, once Trump’s most vocal congressional ally. Their falling-out centered on Epstein files, foreign policy, and healthcare issues.

“Standing up for American women who were raped at 14, trafficked and used by rich powerful men, should not result in me being called a traitor and threatened by the President of the United States, whom I fought for,” Greene wrote in her resignation announcement, according to ABC News.

Trump told reporters Saturday that Greene’s resignation was “great news for the country,” adding he has no plans to speak with her.

Most House Republicans backed the Venezuela operation, with Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) calling Maduro’s capture “an important first step.” Democrats criticized the lack of congressional authorization for military action.

Does pardoning a convicted cocaine trafficker while launching military strikes against another undermine the administration’s claim to be fighting narco-terrorism?

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