Trump Says he Plans to Pardon Former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 Drug Trafficking Sentence

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

The president explained his decision on Truth Social by posting that “according to many people that I greatly respect,” Hernandez was “treated very harshly and unfairly

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon/2025/11/28/id/1236372/

 

I don't know if it's dementia or insanity behind this decision. What's next? Will he appoint this guy to be interim president of Venezuela?

7 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Trump Says he Plans to Pardon Former Honduran President Hernandez for 2024 Drug Trafficking Sentence

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he will be pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who in 2024 was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.

The president explained his decision on Truth Social by posting that “according to many people that I greatly respect,” Hernandez was “treated very harshly and unfairly

https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/trump-hernandez-honduras-pardon/2025/11/28/id/1236372/

 

I don't know if it's dementia or insanity behind this decision. What's next? Will he appoint this guy to be interim president of Venezuela?

Trump's passion for justice is only outweighed by his passion for pardons. At least if you're a wealthy or well connected felon.

Haha.

 

At first I thought it was Hunter instead of Honduran.

 

How many people did Biden Pardon?

 

We should keep score.

Mr Trump realises that people often make mistakes, but it doesn't necessarily mean the person is bad or recidivistic.

 

Live and learn, smile on your brother and let's not jump to conclusions.

10 minutes ago, Airalee said:

Haha.

 

At first I thought it was Hunter instead of Honduran.

 

How many people did Biden Pardon?

 

We should keep score.

He may be about to wage war in order to depose what he claims is a drug dealing president of a Latin American country. And while engaged in that effort, he pardons another drug dealing president of a Latin American country? 

Yours a pretty weak effort at deflection.

This is clearly nuts.

3 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Mr Trump realises that people often make mistakes, but it doesn't necessarily mean the person is bad or recidivistic.

 

Live and learn, smile on your brother and let's not jump to conclusions.

A mistake is an oops moment. Profiting from drug dealing by using your power as president of a country is massively criminal. Trump supporters claim that  through drug dealing Maduro is waging war on America. Was the ex-president of Honduras waging peace on America?

16 minutes ago, Airalee said:

Haha.

 

At first I thought it was Hunter instead of Honduran.

 

How many people did Biden Pardon?

 

We should keep score.

But but but… Biden

But I've got to give credit to Fox News. I just went to their homepage and... Oh my mistake. So far, not mentioned.

17 minutes ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Mr Trump realises that people often make mistakes, but it doesn't necessarily mean the person is bad or recidivistic.

 

Live and learn, smile on your brother and let's not jump to conclusions.

Yes, I'm sure the former Honduran President just dallied in drugs and weapons trafficking for maybe an hour one afternoon, and then came to his senses.

 

OTOH, there's this guy in the US with 34 felony convictions, a civil conviction for sexual assault, a conviction for charity fraud, and absent a trial, likely a guy convicted of stealing highly classified documents and then lying about it, trying to force a State SecState to commit voter fraud, and even quite likely trying to overthrow 250 years of US democracy.

 

Now THAT screams recidivist!

16 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

A mistake is an oops moment. Profiting from drug dealing by using your power as president of a country is massively criminal. Trump supporters claim that  through drug dealing Maduro is waging war on America. Was the ex-president of Honduras waging peace on America?

 

Maybe Trump has an affinity for criminals operating from Caribbean islands.

Trump makes a big show of blowing the hired out of the water without due process, and then letting the bigwigs at the top who had their day in court walk, keeping America safe from drugs, Trump style.

I just checked the Fox News homepage again to see if this story has surfaced there. So far, no. I suspect they're hoping for a TACO, a dish often served by Trump.

1 hour ago, Alan Zweibel said:

I just checked the Fox News homepage again to see if this story has surfaced there. So far, no. I suspect they're hoping for a TACO, a dish often served by Trump.

 

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1 hour ago, Alan Zweibel said:

I just checked the Fox News homepage again to see if this story has surfaced there. So far, no. I suspect they're hoping for a TACO, a dish often served by Trump.

 

Oh, wait...........there it is.......scroll waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay down.

 

Trump plans 'full and complete pardon' for former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking

 

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Hernández. who was sentenced in New York last year to 45 years in prison for conspiring with drug traffickers to move over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., was "treated very harshly and unfairly."

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-plans-full-complete-pardon-former-honduran-president-convicted-drug-trafficking

 

 

Juan is good boy.  He dindunuffin!

According to an article in the Wall St. Journal, one of the people whose sense of justice Trump respects enough to warrant this pardon is none other than Roger Stone.

Trump-Logic

Anyone I Call A "Drug Dealers" Who Is In A Boat Gets A Hellcat Missile.
Drug Dealers I Do Like Get A Pardon

Fox News now has now reported this story. It's way down on their home page. Below is the text of that part of the article that deals with Hernandez apart from the quotes from Trump.

 

"President Trump announced Friday he intends to issue a "full and complete pardon" to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, while simultaneously reaffirming his support for presidential candidate Nasry "Tito" Asfura just days before Hondurans head to the polls.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said Hernández. who was sentenced in New York last year to 45 years in prison for conspiring with drug traffickers to move over 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., was "treated very harshly and unfairly.

Hernández was convicted in March 2024 on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the U.S. and two related weapons offenses after a two-week trial, according to The Associated Press

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-plans-full-complete-pardon-former-honduran-president-convicted-drug-trafficking

 

Most of the article deals with the current candidate for President whom Trump supports. Clearly, Fox wants as little to do with this story as it can get away with.

4 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

According to an article in the Wall St. Journal, one of the people whose sense of justice Trump respects enough to warrant this pardon is none other than Roger Stone.

He already asked for his release in January.

 

https://www.elheraldo.hn/honduras/exasesor-roger-stone-donald-trump-sugiere-indulto-juan-orlando-hernandez-contraatacar-xiomara-castro-PO23781086

 

 

"Trump to pardon Honduran ex-president drug dealer"

 

Don't use an autopen Donnie my boy, an old Sharpie dipped in ketchup some how has a more authentic feel to it!

2 hours ago, candide said:

He already asked for his release in January.

 

https://www.elheraldo.hn/honduras/exasesor-roger-stone-donald-trump-sugiere-indulto-juan-orlando-hernandez-contraatacar-xiomara-castro-PO23781086

 

 

So now we have an idea of who might be behind this self-defeating maneuver of  Trump's. 

So Hernandez championed Próspera. which" is also backed by multiple investors, including Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen, through the venture capital firm Pronomos Capital.[15] "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Próspera

 

Peter Thiel is the guy who Vance used to work for and who sponsored Vance's run for the Senate.

10 hours ago, Airalee said:

Haha.

 

At first I thought it was Hunter instead of Honduran.

 

How many people did Biden Pardon?

 

We should keep score.

 

Speaking of which:

 

 

4 minutes ago, rattlesnake said:

 

Speaking of which:

 

 

Another air-headed deflection.

4 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Another air-headed deflection.

 

Trump is the first President to actually fight the plague of cartel drug trafficking, do you acknowledge this fact?

Just now, rattlesnake said:

 

Trump is the first President to actually fight the plague of cartel drug trafficking, do you acknowledge this fact?

Maybe in the alternative universe you inhabit. But not true in this one:

Drug traffickers profit from end of intelligence cooperation between Colombia and the US
Gustavo Petro has suspended the sending of confidential information to the Donald Trump administration, but Washington was already offering little cooperation to Bogotá and other key allies

Drug traffickers Colombia and the US rejoice.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombian intelligence services to suspend the transfer of information to U.S. agencies on Tuesday night, ending decades of bilateral cooperation through a publication on X. “This measure will remain in effect as long as the missile attacks on boats in the Caribbean continue,” he explained. The news has not yet received a response from President Donald Trump or his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, but the reduction in intelligence cooperation is not unique to Colombia. In recent days, both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which do not have such a tense relationship with the White House but do have territories in the Caribbean, have also limited the intelligence they send to Washington. 

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-13/drug-traffickers-profit-from-end-of-intelligence-cooperation-between-colombia-and-the-us.html

 

10 hours ago, Alan Zweibel said:

But I've got to give credit to Fox News. I just went to their homepage and... Oh my mistake. So far, not mentioned.

Your whole life revolves around Trump.

13 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Maybe in the alternative universe you inhabit. But not true in this one:

Drug traffickers profit from end of intelligence cooperation between Colombia and the US
Gustavo Petro has suspended the sending of confidential information to the Donald Trump administration, but Washington was already offering little cooperation to Bogotá and other key allies

Drug traffickers Colombia and the US rejoice.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro ordered Colombian intelligence services to suspend the transfer of information to U.S. agencies on Tuesday night, ending decades of bilateral cooperation through a publication on X. “This measure will remain in effect as long as the missile attacks on boats in the Caribbean continue,” he explained. The news has not yet received a response from President Donald Trump or his Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, but the reduction in intelligence cooperation is not unique to Colombia. In recent days, both the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which do not have such a tense relationship with the White House but do have territories in the Caribbean, have also limited the intelligence they send to Washington. 

https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-13/drug-traffickers-profit-from-end-of-intelligence-cooperation-between-colombia-and-the-us.html

 

 

An expected response from someone who actually has a picture of George Soros as an avatar.

 

Let me guess, "Trump is the greatest threat to democracy", right?

1 minute ago, rattlesnake said:

 

An expected response from someone who actually has a picture of George Soros as an avatar.

 

Let me guess, "Trump is the greatest threat to democracy", right?

Still more intellectually undistinguished deflections. I'll say this for you: You're consistent.

7 minutes ago, Alan Zweibel said:

Still more intellectually undistinguished deflections. I'll say this for you: You're consistent.

 

I'll take that as a 'yes'. Soros' world view is a thing of the past.

Somewhere I suspect that a large amount of crypto just landed in the trump family holdings courtesy of pardoned Honduras Drug Dealer.

11 hours ago, Airalee said:

Haha.

 

At first I thought it was Hunter instead of Honduran.

 

How many people did Biden Pardon?

 

We should keep score.

 

11 hours ago, Woke to Sounds said:

Mr Trump realises that people often make mistakes, but it doesn't necessarily mean the person is bad or recidivistic.

 

Live and learn, smile on your brother and let's not jump to conclusions.

 

 

1 hour ago, rattlesnake said:

 

Trump is the first President to actually fight the plague of cartel drug trafficking, do you acknowledge this fact?

 

43 minutes ago, Harrisfan said:

Your whole life revolves around Trump.

But you would have to be an idiot not to be seriously concerned by this as a Trump supporter and at minimum require a full explanation why this should be a thing. It's good we can agree on that. Thanks.