Trump Pardons Ex-Honduran President From Prison Cell Haters Club

KEY POINTS

•From his U.S. jail cell, ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez secured a pardon via a sycophantic letter to Trump.
•Roger Stone aggressively lobbied for Hernandez, posting three Substack posts blaming ‘leftist lawfare’ and Biden's DOJ for prosecution.
•Trump announced a pardon for Hernandez shortly after endorsing right-wing candidate Nasry 'Tito' Asfura in Honduras’ tight election race.
•The pardon rattles Trump advisers worried about hypocrisy, especially facing Venezuela’s indicted drug lord Maduro as a political rival.

Juan Orlando Hernandez, serving a 45-year sentence in the U.S. for drug trafficking, scored a pardon thanks to a four-page love letter to ‘Your Excellency’ Donald Trump and tireless hustling by Roger Stone, the human embodiment of political persistence and questionable judgment. Stone penned not one, not two, but three Substack manifestos blaming ‘leftist lawfare’ and Biden’s ‘political agenda’ for Hernandez’s woes, while Trump announced the pardon minutes after endorsing Hernandez’s party’s candidate, Nasry 'Tito' Asfura, who is in a nail-biter election. Hernandez’s legal rep ghosted Axios, but Stone swears he just played messenger pigeon. Even some Trump allies think pardoning a convicted drug lord is a mood kill—hello, diplomacy with Venezuela's Maduro, whose indictment weirdly shares roots with this saga. Meanwhile, Trump calls the sentencing a Biden setup, and Stone says the pardon ‘just happened to move’ the president—because nothing says ‘justice’ like a late-afternoon social media two-step.

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When your pen game is stronger than your prison bars: Hernandez’s ‘Dear Excellency’ letter unlocked Trump’s pardon powers like a VIP backstage pass at the corrupt karaoke bar of politics.

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