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US Senate criticizes Trump for pardoning former Honduran President
(MENAFN) US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned President Donald Trump for pardoning former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez.
"I want to begin with a truly disgusting and alarming piece of news the American people got this morning. This morning, the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was released from prison after Donald Trump gave him a pardon," Schumer said.
Hernandez, who served from 2014 to 2022, had been sentenced in June 2024 to 45 years in the US for drug trafficking.
Schumer added: "We all know Trump does a lot of hypocritical things — almost every day there is hypocrisy oozing from the White House — but pardoning one of the world's biggest drug traffickers is egregious, shameful and dangerous, even for Donald Trump." He also said, “You can’t have it both ways, Mr. President: You can’t talk a big game about hunting down drug traffickers and getting drugs off our streets and then turn around and free a dangerous, convicted drug lord.”
"I want to begin with a truly disgusting and alarming piece of news the American people got this morning. This morning, the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was released from prison after Donald Trump gave him a pardon," Schumer said.
Hernandez, who served from 2014 to 2022, had been sentenced in June 2024 to 45 years in the US for drug trafficking.
Schumer added: "We all know Trump does a lot of hypocritical things — almost every day there is hypocrisy oozing from the White House — but pardoning one of the world's biggest drug traffickers is egregious, shameful and dangerous, even for Donald Trump." He also said, “You can’t have it both ways, Mr. President: You can’t talk a big game about hunting down drug traffickers and getting drugs off our streets and then turn around and free a dangerous, convicted drug lord.”
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