Honduras Ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez is not some fisherman suspected of hauling drugs in the Caribbean. If he were, he might have been killed by murderous Pete Hegseth already.
No, Hernandez is a convicted cocaine trafficker. He was convicted in a United States court of “facilitating the import of some 400 tons of cocaine into the United States,” according to AFP.
As The New York Times described it, Trump, his family and Trump-buddy Roger Stone have tried to turn Hernandez into some kind of Biden-witch-hunt victim. “But although the former Honduran president was extradited and convicted when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was in office, the investigation of his ties with drug traffickers took place primarily during Mr. Trump’s first term,” The Times noted.
So why the heck does Trump, the guy ready to go to war against Venezuela, purportedly over the import of drugs into the U.S., plan to pardon Hernandez?
Well, for one thing, it seems to be part of Trump’s efforts to meddle in Honduras’ election on Sunday. The left-wing party currently in power “have been painted by the opposition in this year’s election as being pro-Venezuela,” and Trump has called them “the Communists,” The Times said. Trump has already endorsed the guy from Hernandez’s far-right party, Nasry “Tito” Asfura.
