Manuel Noriega
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Podcast Appearances
Before that, nobody knew.
It was all behind closed doors.
And when that happened, it just proved to be a major embarrassment for the US.
And the blame was shifted onto Point Dexter and North.
Yeah, like the government.
Like Reagan said that he knew nothing about it, and he testified that and all that sort of jazz.
No, it's just not possible.
Yeah, and there's, like, you can, the footage of those, like, trials or whatever you want to call them, the hearings, they're on YouTube, but there's, like, 100 plus hours of them.
Is that โ he kind of โ That's โ yeah, like him and Point Dexter like very much fall on their swords.
But then Bush becomes president in 88 and in like the early 90s, North and Point Dexter are, you know, like the entire case is thrown out.
Whatever you call that.
Like everything's just washed away.
Did he ever run for president?
No.
No, he couldn't, right?
So, of course.
Yeah.
I mean, that's just like the way the world, I guess.
It's just people are going to be split in terms of that opinion.
But I guess in my opinion, like reading about it, you know, this guy, Richard Secord, who was