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Nov 28, 2025 Trump announced pardon for former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of large-scale drug trafficking Tier 1 · Primary Power and Authority
A presidential pardon for a foreign leader convicted of enabling massive cocaine trafficking into the US undermines rule of law and anti-drug policy while serving apparent political ends.
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- Trump announces pardon for former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández — Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras currently serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández was convicted in March 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments destined for the US. Trump characterized the conviction as "very harsh and unfair," despite prosecutors describing Hernández as having "paved a cocaine superhighway to the United States." The pardon announcement coincided with Trump's endorsement of Tito Asfura in Honduras's upcoming presidential election.
- Trump announced a pardon for former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández — Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will grant a full pardon to Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras currently serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking and weapons charges. Hernández was convicted in March 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments destined for the US. Trump characterized the conviction as "very harsh and unfair," despite Hernández's role in enabling drug traffickers to use Honduras's military and police. The pardon announcement coincided with Trump's endorsement of Tito Asfura in Honduras's upcoming presidential election.
- Trump announced pardon for convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández — President Trump announced he would pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced in the United States to 45 years in prison for trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the country while collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel. Trump's decision to shield a convicted narco-trafficker contradicts his administration's stated commitment to waging a war on drugs.
- — On Truth Social, Trump announced he would grant a pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a convicted drug trafficker sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2024 for conspiring to import cocaine to the US. Trump claimed Hernández was "treated very harshly and unfairly," though then-Attorney General Merrick Garland had described the conspiracy as "one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world."
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