Trump just sprung Juan Orlando Hernández from a federal prison in West Virginia after the ex-Honduran president got nailed on drug trafficking and weapons charges. The guy was doing 45 years for helping move hundreds of tons of cocaine into America, but Trump called the whole thing a setup by Biden's people and let him walk.
Prosecutors had painted Hernández as running Honduras like a narco-state while taking millions in bribes from traffickers. His wife thanked Trump online after he got out, and the timing is wild because Honduras is basically tied in their presidential election right now, with only 515 votes separating the top two candidates.
Trump threw shade at one of the candidates for being too friendly with Venezuela's Maduro, and he backed the right-wing guy instead. The whole pardon thing fits into Trump's larger beef with Latin American leaders he thinks are soft on drugs.
Prosecutors had painted Hernández as running Honduras like a narco-state while taking millions in bribes from traffickers. His wife thanked Trump online after he got out, and the timing is wild because Honduras is basically tied in their presidential election right now, with only 515 votes separating the top two candidates.
Trump threw shade at one of the candidates for being too friendly with Venezuela's Maduro, and he backed the right-wing guy instead. The whole pardon thing fits into Trump's larger beef with Latin American leaders he thinks are soft on drugs.
