Cocaine trafficking kingpin and former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been released from prison following Trump pardon
Juan Orlando Hernández, the former president of Honduras, has been released from a US prison, according to online records of federal inmates, after he received a pardon from US President Donald Trump for drug charges.

The records show Hernández was released from the high security facility of USP Hazelton in West Virginia on Monday.

Hernández was found guilty in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine to the US, and of possessing machine guns. He was sentenced to 45 years in prison.

Hernández, a member of Honduras's National Party who served as the country's president from 2014 to 2022, was extradited to the US in April 2022 to stand trial for running a violent drug trafficking conspiracy and helping to smuggle hundreds of tonnes of cocaine to the US.

During his trial, prosecutors in New York said Hernández ran the Central American country like a "narco-state" and accepted millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers to shield them from the law.

He was also ordered to pay a fine of $8m as part of his sentence.

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Yep, this makes absolutely no sense at all.
What is Trump getting out of this??

Wonder if this is helping DT make connections down there for when he gets rid of Maduro (sp?).

And now he's pardoning a democrat and his wife, saying they were targeted by Biden's DOJ because the guy wasn't toeing the line.
What is the back story on all these pardons/commutations??

We are experiencing THE FULL MONTY.

Trumpers will argue about any facts you come at them with..I voted for him twice but if the Democrats had run a real candidate last time I might not have….
My buddy when confronted with the facts said Trump hates drugs he would never pardon anyone associated with the drug trade..He is the most honest guy ever…But the facts keep coming out and bothering me….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...ZWN0IHVuaW9uIA%3D%3D