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On the recordDecember 1, 2025
last Friday President Trump said he would give a full and complete pardon to Juan Orlando Hernandez, the corrupt former President of Honduras. It is disgusting. Trump is going to erase a major drug trafficking conviction against Hernandez, who is serving 45 years in Federal prison for his crimes. He was convicted by an American jury for working with drug cartels to move 400 tons of cocaine through Honduras to the United States. He got millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes. What the hell is the President of the United States doing giving this thug a full pardon? He is a man who helped bring deadly drugs into our communities. Trump is literally rewarding a narco-terrorist. What will it take for my Republican colleagues to speak up? There is no way to spin this. He is literally standing with a drug trafficker and against us.
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Becca Balint
Democratic · Vermont

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Condemning President Trump's decision to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

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