‘Why Would We Pardon This Guy?’ GOP Senator Trashes Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President

Jennifer Bowers Bahney Dec 1st, 2025, 1:08 pm

On Sunday a Republican senator questioned why President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was serving 45 years on drug trafficking and weapons charges.

Hernandez was convicted in U.S. court in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, according to CBS News . He had been appealing his conviction while serving his time at the U.S. Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia.

“Why would we pardon this guy and then go after Maduro for running drugs into the United States? Lock up every drug runner! Don’t understand why he is being pardoned,” Cassidy wrote .

Cassidy isn’t the o

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