Trump Pardons Former Honduran President Convicted in Massive U.S. Cocaine Smuggling Case

In a move already stirring political waves from Washington to Central America, President Donald Trump granted a full and complete pardon to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been convicted in U.S. federal court of conspiring to traffic hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States.

Hernandez, sentenced to 45 years in prison in 2023, was released this week from a West Virginia federal facility after President Trump announced he had reviewed the facts and found the case to be nothing more than another political hit job orchestrated under Joe Biden’s corrupt Department of Justice.

“According to many people that I greatly respect,” Trump said, “he was treated very harshly and unfairly.” The pardon followed a personal letter from Hernandez to the President, in which he laid out how Biden’s DOJ relied on unverified testimony from drug traffickers with political agendas many tied to the radical socialist Libre Party in Honduras.

The letter reached Trump via longtime ally Roger Stone, who delivered it just hours before Trump made the bold decision to overturn the conviction.

Let’s break down what the media won’t:

• Hernandez was convicted of aiding smugglers in trafficking over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

• Prosecutors accused him of using drug money to enrich himself, finance elections, and commit voter fraud.

• Trump’s pardon came after Hernandez revealed Libre Party connections to traffickers, exposing video evidence the DOJ ignored.

• The original DOJ investigation started in 2013 under the Obama administration long before Trump ever took office.

Critics, including Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), questioned the decision, especially as Trump is aggressively targeting Venezuelan cartels and cracking down on narco-terror operations from South America. But Trump isn’t backing down.

“This was a Biden setup,” Trump told reporters. “Not Biden himself he probably didn’t even know this was happening but the people around him, the Deep State actors who were really running the show.”

He’s not wrong to call out selective prosecution. While Democrats shrug off America’s open border crisis, deadly fentanyl pouring in, and cartels expanding operations, they made Hernandez a high-profile scapegoat. All while progressive prosecutors at home are letting criminals walk free every day.

Trump’s pardon also comes at a pivotal moment. Honduras is in the middle of a tight presidential race, and Trump has thrown his support behind conservative candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura, signaling that the U.S. under Trump’s leadership will back allies who reject socialist ideology and work with American interests.

“If Tito Asfura wins,” Trump said, “we will be very supportive. If he doesn’t, we won’t waste money on a country led by the wrong person.” That’s called leadership and it’s a far cry from the Biden administration’s reckless foreign policy failures.

Once again, Trump is showing he’s not afraid to challenge a corrupt justice system and call out political persecution when he sees it. The message is clear: if you’re targeted by Biden’s DOJ for political reasons, there’s still hope and justice under President Trump.

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