Convicted felon President Trump’s loyal enforcers in Brooklyn and Manhattan have opened a criminal investigation into Colombian President Gustavo Petro in an attempt to build a case accusing him of soliciting campaign donations from drug cartels, the New York Times reports on the pretty blatant play to make Petro – Colombia’s first-ever leftist national leader – into the new Nicolas Maduro.
Relations between Washington and Bogota had been awful for most of the past year until a thaw in January after a phone call brokered by Rand Paul and the Colombian ambassador. Indicting Petro and then trying to compel domestic law enforcement to extradite him would obviously be a reversal.