President Trump said he would pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, who prosecutors said partnered with cocaine traffickers as Honduras’s president and is serving a 45-year sentence.
Trump, in a new post, said he will issue a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was convicted of drug trafficking last year in the US and sentenced to 45 years in prison. Hernandez was convicted by a jury of conspiring to traffic 400 tons of cocaine into the United States and was “at the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.” Hernandez is responsible for the deaths of countless American citizens, but Trump says that he was treated “very unfairly.”