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BSDemon

(53 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 04:45 PM 19 hrs ago

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 19 hrs ago OP
I thought we executed drug runners!!! lapfog_1 19 hrs ago #1
So he's shooting drug running Venezuelan boats out of the ocean... C Moon 19 hrs ago #2
Hmmm. Bombing boats and staging for invasion while pardoning a drug traffiker sentenced to 45 years??? Seems bizarre Evolve Dammit 19 hrs ago #3
Waiting for TSF to pardon Manuel Noriega (before he's told that Noriega is dead). no_hypocrisy 18 hrs ago #4
He can still pardon him posthumously. DJ Synikus Makisimus 10 hrs ago #9
Is Trump claiming that there was something defective in the federal prosecution and conviction? Prairie Gates 18 hrs ago #5
He's rich with good connections for crime. travelingthrulife 1 hr ago #10
Money money money... 50 Shades Of Blue 18 hrs ago #6
Right out of a Putin playbook mdbl 14 hrs ago #7
Maybe that's who he got his cocaine from, DJ Synikus Makisimus 10 hrs ago #8

C Moon

(13,364 posts)
2. So he's shooting drug running Venezuelan boats out of the ocean...
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 04:59 PM
19 hrs ago

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

(21,358 posts)
3. Hmmm. Bombing boats and staging for invasion while pardoning a drug traffiker sentenced to 45 years??? Seems bizarre
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 05:16 PM
19 hrs ago

Prairie Gates

(6,920 posts)
5. Is Trump claiming that there was something defective in the federal prosecution and conviction?
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 05:53 PM
18 hrs ago

What's his basis for pardoning this guy?

mdbl

(7,895 posts)
7. Right out of a Putin playbook
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 09:35 PM
14 hrs ago

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

(1,159 posts)
8. Maybe that's who he got his cocaine from,
Sat Nov 29, 2025, 02:19 AM
10 hrs ago

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

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