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BSDemon

(107 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 05:45 PM Nov 2025

Trump says he will pardon former Honduras president serving US prison sentence

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he will grant a pardon to former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence in the U.S. after his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump reiterated his backing for Honduran presidential candidate Nasry Asfura of the conservative National Party and said that "if he doesn't win, the United States will not be throwing good money."

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-he-will-pardon-former-honduras-president-serving-us-prison-sentence-2025-11-28/



Ttump wants to intervene in the Honduran election just like he did in 2017
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Trump says he will pardon former Honduras president serving US prison sentence (Original Post) BSDemon Nov 2025 OP
I thought we executed drug runners!!! lapfog_1 Nov 2025 #1
So he's shooting drug running Venezuelan boats out of the ocean... C Moon Nov 2025 #2
Hmmm. Bombing boats and staging for invasion while pardoning a drug traffiker sentenced to 45 years??? Seems bizarre Evolve Dammit Nov 2025 #3
Waiting for TSF to pardon Manuel Noriega (before he's told that Noriega is dead). no_hypocrisy Nov 2025 #4
He can still pardon him posthumously. DJ Synikus Makisimus Nov 2025 #9
Is Trump claiming that there was something defective in the federal prosecution and conviction? Prairie Gates Nov 2025 #5
He's rich with good connections for crime. travelingthrulife Nov 2025 #10
Money money money... 50 Shades Of Blue Nov 2025 #6
Right out of a Putin playbook mdbl Nov 2025 #7
Maybe that's who he got his cocaine from, DJ Synikus Makisimus Nov 2025 #8

C Moon

(13,643 posts)
2. So he's shooting drug running Venezuelan boats out of the ocean...
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 05:59 PM
Nov 2025

and now he's going to release a convicted drug trafficking presidential candidate.

Why doesn't he just write an executive order to fire himself?

Evolve Dammit

(21,777 posts)
3. Hmmm. Bombing boats and staging for invasion while pardoning a drug traffiker sentenced to 45 years??? Seems bizarre
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:16 PM
Nov 2025

Prairie Gates

(8,156 posts)
5. Is Trump claiming that there was something defective in the federal prosecution and conviction?
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:53 PM
Nov 2025

What's his basis for pardoning this guy?

mdbl

(8,650 posts)
7. Right out of a Putin playbook
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:35 PM
Nov 2025

Except Dump is too stupid to keep it secret. He thinks by announcing his criminality it makes it all ok. We are way past the time to impeach. Fucking Congress needs to remove this criminal from the white house.

DJ Synikus Makisimus

(1,438 posts)
8. Maybe that's who he got his cocaine from,
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 03:19 AM
Nov 2025

back in the day. On the other hand, could be Don Jr.'s current connect. Or both.

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