US EditionTrump Says He Plans to Pardon Former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 Drug Trafficking Sentence
- On Friday in West Palm Beach, President Donald Trump said he will pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted in 2024 in U.S. court and sentenced to 45 years.
- On social media, President Donald Trump said Hernandez was `treated very harshly and unfairly` and linked the pardon to backing Tito Asfura and promising U.S. support if he wins.
- Hernandez, who led a nation of roughly 10 million people, was extradited on April 21, 2022 after serving two terms as president, facing reporting that he used government forces to protect cocaine shipments, which he denies.
- Politically, the move follows pressure from MAGA-aligned figures including Roger Stone and was wrapped in campaign-style messaging ending with `MAKE HONDURAS GREAT AGAIN!`.
- Looking to the vote, Trump framed the pardon as defending Juan Orlando Hernandez as the true victim and urged voters to `VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT` before Sunday’s Honduran election.
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Trump says pardoning Honduras ex-president days before vote
US President Donald Trump on Friday made a major intervention into Honduran politics days before the country's presidential election, pardoning a convicted ex-leader and threatening to cut US support if his preferred candidate loses.
By Alejandra Jaramillo, CNN - President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major U.S. drug trafficking conviction for the former U.S. ally, who is currently serving a 45-year federal prison sentence. "I will be granting a full and complete pardon to former President Juan Orlando Hernández, who, according to many people I greatly …
Donald Trump announced this Friday on his social network that he will pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking...
Two days after the general elections in Honduras, U.S. President Donald Trump seeks to influence the conservative candidate Nasry Tito Asfura. Through a comment published on his social network Truth, he has conditioned financial support for the country if Asfura prevails in the presidential elections. Otherwise, he has written, he will withdraw any support. Not only that, he has promised to pardon former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández…
Trump vows full pardon for drug-trafficking ex-foreign president
President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account on Friday to announce that he intends to grant a “Full and Complete Pardon” to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez – a convicted drug trafficker sentenced last year to 45 years in U.S. federal prison for helping move massive quantitie...
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