Trump has so far pardoned close to 2,000 criminals, including his 1,500 MAGA mobsters who savaged the Capitol in their attack on Congress in January 2021. Many of his other pardoned criminals are "elite" people (financiers, politicians, etc. https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/11/trump-keeps-pardoning-criminals-like.html) and even spies (https://lebanoniznogood.blogspot.com/2025/11/trump-to-pardon-jonathan-pollard-jewish.html). He is expected to soon pardon Ghislaine Maxwell, the child sex pedophile associate of feu Jeffrey Epstein, a long time close pedophile friend of Trump himself.
Is there any logic in assassinating innocent fishermen in their boats in the Caribbean Sea claiming they are drug traffickers and smugglers, while pardoning a former president of Honduras who was sentenced for drug trafficking? The only explanation is that a former president is a VIP like Trump, a member of the elite whose crimes should be ignored, while lowly fishermen are disposable human beings that may be sacrificed in order for the Great Moron to say to his MAGA herd of morons that he is fighting crime. Note that he doesn't hold his own American morons responsible for using the illicit drugs and driving the drug smuggling into the US.
One way to cut the supply of drugs into the US is to hold the American people responsible for the highest demand for illicit drugs in the world.
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Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case
Juan Orlando Hernandez in Guatemala City, January 14, 2020. - Moises Castillo/AP/File
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 US drug-trafficking conviction for a onetime US 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 Hernandez who has been, according to many people that I greatly respect, treated very harshly and unfairly,” Trump announced on his Truth Social platform.
“This cannot be allowed to happen, especially now, after Tito Asfura wins the Election, when Honduras will be on its way to Great Political and Financial Success. VOTE FOR TITO ASFURA FOR PRESIDENT, AND CONGRATULATIONS TO JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ ON YOUR UPCOMING PARDON.”
President of Honduras from 2014 until 2022, Hernández was sentenced last year and given an $8 million fine by a US judge for drug trafficking offenses.
Prosecutors had accused Hernández of conspiring with drug cartels during his tenure as they moved more than 400 tons of cocaine through Honduras toward the United States. In exchange, prosecutors said, Hernández received millions of dollars in bribes that he used to fuel his rise in Honduran politics.
During his years in office, the Justice Department said, Hernández “protected and enriched the drug traffickers in his inner circle.” Prosecutors cited his use of executive power to support extraditions to the US of certain drug traffickers “who threatened his grip on power,” while “promising drug traffickers who paid him and followed his instructions that they would remain in Honduras.”
The president’s announcement comes as his administration has focused in recent months on what it has said is a counter-drug operation in the Caribbean and the Pacific, with US military activity ramping up there.
The former Honduran president, who denied the chargers against him, had been extradited from Honduras after the US Department of Justice filed three drug-trafficking and firearms-related charges against him in 2022.
Following the announcement, Hernández’s attorney thanked Trump and said “we look forward to President Hernandez’s triumphant return to Honduras.”
“We are so grateful to President Trump and everyone who supported President Hernandez. We believe he was the victim of lawfare and a political prosecution. A great injustice has been righted and we are so hopeful for the future partnership of the United States and Honduras,” attorney Renato Stabile said in a statement.
Trump also used his Truth Social post Friday to strongly back Honduran conservative National Party presidential candidate Nasry “Tito” Asfura, tying US support to the outcome of the election.
“If Tito Asfura wins for President of Honduras, because the United States has so much confidence in him, his Policies, and what he will do for the Great People of Honduras, we will be very supportive,” the president wrote.
“If he doesn’t win, the United States will not be throwing good money after bad, because a wrong Leader can only bring catastrophic results to a country, no matter which country it is. Tito will be a Great President, and the United States will work closely with him in order to ensure the success, with all of its potential, of Honduras!”
On Sunday Honduras will hold its general elections.
CNN’s Maria Santana and Jack Guy contributed to this report.
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