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   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:24:24 -0800,Alan says   
      
   > when Trump invaded their   
   > country and kidnapped their politician?   
      
   2022:   
   President: Biden   
   Juan Orlando Hernández (Honduras) - February 2022   
   The former President of Honduras was arrested just days after leaving office.   
   The Operation: While conducted by Honduran police, the operation was at the   
   direct request and coordination of U.S. authorities.   
   Outcome: He was extradited to the U.S., convicted of drug trafficking and   
   weapons charges, and sentenced to 45 years in prison. (Note: He was reportedly   
   pardoned by President Trump on December 1,2025).   
      
   Other High-Ranking Politicians   
   The U.S. frequently uses "extradition" or "luring" operations for lower-level   
   politicians, but military extractions of top leaders are rare. Other notable   
   "extractions" or forced removals include:   
      
   Mexican Officials: In the early 1990s, the U.S. was involved in the   
   "kidnapping" of Dr. Humberto Álvarez-Machaín from Mexico to face trial for the   
   murder of a   
   DEA agent. The U.S. Supreme Court later ruled that even if the abduction was   
   illegal under international law, U.S. courts still had jurisdiction to try him.   
      
   1994:   
   President: Clinton   
   In the 1994 intervention in Haiti (Operation Uphold Democracy) to remove a   
   military regime and restore the elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to   
   power.   
      
   Year        Country        Leader/VIP Targeted or Replaced        President   
   2021      Afghanistan          Ashraf Ghani                       Biden   
   2011      Libya                Muammar Gaddafi                    Obama   
   2011      Egypt                Hosni Mubarak                      Obama   
   2009      Honduras             Manuel Zelaya                      Obama   
   1999      Yugoslavia           Slobodan Milo¨evic                 Clinton   
   1994      Haiti                Raoul Cédras                       Clinton   
   1993      Somalia              Mohamed Farrah Aidid               Clinton   
      
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   "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition   
      
   All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome, " or TDS.   
      
   "Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has   
   been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the   
   point   
   at which they will abandon all logic and reason."   
      
   Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the   
   Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or   
   stages:   
      
   "In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The   
   president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were   
   all   
   it took to change the world."   
      
   "The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's   
   vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of   
   hyperbole."   
      
   "As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from   
   reality."   
      
   The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk   
   opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump   
   announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would   
   suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.   
   There's   
   nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received   
   positively by TDSers.   
      
   The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early   
   2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for   
   late-night   
   comics and nothing more.   
      
   Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first   
   coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. The   
   condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in   
   otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -   
   the very   
   existence of George W. Bush."   
      
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