The Rupert Murdoch–owned Wall Street Journal has condemned Donald Trump for pardoning a former Honduran president jailed for smuggling billions of dollars’ worth of cocaine into the U.S.
The paper’s editorial board questioned why Trump freed Juan Orlando Hernández after he was sentenced to 45 years in 2024 for conspiring to smuggle what authorities called an “almost unfathomable” 400 tons of cocaine into the country, and if the 79-year-old’s vanity was the deciding factor.
“President Trump, like other politicians, sometimes does something unpopular to please his base,” the board wrote. “But what is the audience for Mr. Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández?”
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