Trump just dropped that he's gonna pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the ex-Honduras president who got nailed on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 45 years. The guy helped move massive amounts of cocaine into America, but apparently got treated unfairly, according to Trump's social media post.
The timing is pretty wild since Honduras has an election coming up this weekend. Trump's backing the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura and trashing the other two guys running, calling one of them basically a communist. Hernández used to lead the same party as Asfura before getting extradited and convicted by a New York jury.
Meanwhile, the current Honduran leader, Xiomara Castro, has been buddy-buddy with Cuba and Venezuela, which Trump hates. His administration has been doing these military strikes on boats they claim are smuggling drugs, but lawyers are questioning whether that's even legal since there's no proof the vessels actually had narcotics on them.
The timing is pretty wild since Honduras has an election coming up this weekend. Trump's backing the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura and trashing the other two guys running, calling one of them basically a communist. Hernández used to lead the same party as Asfura before getting extradited and convicted by a New York jury.
Meanwhile, the current Honduran leader, Xiomara Castro, has been buddy-buddy with Cuba and Venezuela, which Trump hates. His administration has been doing these military strikes on boats they claim are smuggling drugs, but lawyers are questioning whether that's even legal since there's no proof the vessels actually had narcotics on them.
