White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that Hernandez had been the victim of a "setup," and that Trump was acting on the "concerns of many people."
Hernandez's attorney, Renato Stabile, told Reuters the former president was still in the country and that it was not safe for him to return to Honduras, citing the risk of possible assassination by "narco-terrorists."
Asked whether Hernandez would remain in the United States or go to a third country, Stabile said that remained unclear and that Hernandez was not yet in possession of his passport.
"He is very grateful to President Trump and relieved that this nightmare is over," Stabile said.

Stone, a South Florida-based conservative commentator and longtime Trump adviser, had for months advocated for Hernandez's release. He said on his radio show on Sunday that he had given Trump Hernandez's letter.
On the show, Hernandez's wife, Ana García de Hernández, said Stone's advocacy for her husband had made a "huge difference" in the president's decision.
The White House official said Trump had not seen the letter before announcing his intent to pardon Hernandez on Friday.
Stone did not respond to requests for comment.
The letter from Hernandez appeared designed to appeal to Trump's sense of injustice and was infused with flattery, calling the president "Your Excellency" and referring to their shared "conservative values."
U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate's top Democrat, blasted Trump's decision in remarks on the chamber's floor on Tuesday.
"It would be bad enough on its own for Donald Trump to pardon this horrible drug trafficker, but for him to pardon this drug lord while putting a quarter of our military in the Caribbean, right nearby Honduras, to fight drug trafficking, makes an utter mockery of Donald Trump's supposed desire to root out all drug trafficking," Schumer said.

>>1461864
So how much money is Herandez paying trump for this quid pro quo?

>>1461864
>President Donald Trump, who has cast himself as a relentless foe of illegal drugs, pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, freeing him from a 45-year sentence for conspiring to import tons of cocaine into the United States.
>Trump’s extraordinary move undermines decades of U.S. efforts to combat transnational drug networks, potentially damages Washington’s credibility in Latin America, and signals to corrupt actors that political connections can outweigh criminal accountability.
Hey >>1461757 >>1461809 , you support a killer of American citizens.

>>1461866
>Asked whether Hernandez would remain in the United States or go to a third country, Stabile said that remained unclear and that Hernandez was not yet in possession of his passport.
Hey ICE, I've got a slam dunk method to approach your quota just a little more.

>>1461912
He's going to be immediately jailed once he sets foot on Honduran soil.

And the US is going to sanction them for prosecuting a narcoterrorist that has the blood of hundreds of Americans. The irony is unreal.

>>1461864
Remember when the US invaded a whole country to arrest their president who was involved in drug trafficking. Now 40 years later we give them pardons and take photos with them under Trump's admin.

>>1461864
Trump is blowing up boats he’s insisting are flooding the USA with drugs, and has now pardoned a drug lord found guilty of flooding the USA with drugs.
Make it make sense.

>>1461960
Assuming trump's next coup fails and the democrats don't nominate another center right limp dick like Biden, Obama or Clinton, I can't wait for the next president to revoke trump's asylum for Herendez and extradite him back to Honduras.

>>1461984
>Make it make sense.
According to the Daily Mail (which is a shitty tabloid) Roger Stone lobbied Trump to pardon Hernandez.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15345385/Roger-Stone-pardon-drug-trafficking-Trump.html

>>1461986
Remember the Daily Mail schizo in /news/?
That article will make sure he'll never appear here again, now it can be anti-Trump.
But then, the DM referred to Biden as 'The voice of reason and sanity' after he won.

>[W]hy pardon Hernández? What’s the connection to the crypto/tech broligarchy? It’s called Próspera.

>Próspera is a for-profit city being built off Honduras’s coast. Its charter largely exempts the island from Honduran law. Instead, the city is run by a governing structure that for the most part gives control to a corporation, Honduras Próspera Inc., which is in turn funded by a familiar list of Silicon Valley billionaires including Thiel, Sam Altman and Marc Andreesen.

>So while the city is being marketed as a libertarian paradise, it’s best seen as an autonomous oligarchy, government of, by and for billionaires. And you won’t be surprised to learn that within Próspera, Bitcoin is legal tender.

>The 2013 Honduran law that made the creation of Próspera possible was initially ruled unconstitutional by the Honduran Supreme Court. But that ruling was reversed after Juan Orlando Hernández’s predecessor, Porfirio Lobo Sosa, managed to dismiss 4 of the court’s justices. Like Hernández, Sosa was a right-winger, who became president after a populist president, Manuel Zelaya, was overthrown by a military coup. Under both Hernández and Sosa, chaos reigned – corruption, criminal gangs, and drugs overran the country. The current president, Zelaya’s wife, has tried to claw back some sovereignty over Próspera, which has struck back with a mammoth lawsuit that could bankrupt the country.

>Yesterday Honduras held an election in which Trump backed Nasry Asfura, a member of the same right-wing party as Hernández. Early results show the governing left-wing party well behind, but Asfura in a virtual tie with another right-wing candidate.

>In any case, the point is that while Trump threatens and fulminates against Maduro in Venezuela, he is openly backing the Honduran political party that has allowed massive drug smuggling into the U.S. Why? The only logical answer is because of the influence of the crypto/tech broligarchy and their interests in Próspera.


It was over crypo shit.

>>1461960
It would be funnier to send him to Sudan.

>>1461864
There are many, many reasons why I hate Trump. One of the pettiest and yet most annoying is that fuckass thumbs-up empty smile he does when he doesn't know how to stand for a photo op.

>>1461984
He's doing it to troll the left.

>>1462019
Compared to Trump, sure.

The right will be more than trolled in the midterms.

>>1462050
Don't count our chickens yet.

>>1462019
Naaah the DM turned anti-Trump a while ago
>>1461591