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Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández days before Honduras's election, after Roger Stone delivered the clemency plea

Hernández was serving 45 years for cocaine-importation conspiracy; Stone told the Journal he urged timing the pardon to help Hernández's party.

Events: 2025-11-28 → 2025-12-01 · Published 2026-07-21 · Last verified 2026-07-21 · Record claim-clem-hernandez

Hernández, convicted of conspiring to import cocaine and weapons offenses and sentenced in 2024 to 45 years, received a full pardon signed December 1, 2025 (announced November 28). The Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal report that Roger Stone delivered Hernández's four-page clemency plea to Trump, and Stone told the Journal he urged Trump to time the pardon to help Hernández's conservative party in the Honduran elections held days later. Trump simultaneously endorsed that party's candidate, saying Hernández had been a victim of a Biden-administration set-up.

What this establishes

  • The pardon of a foreign former head of state convicted of drug-trafficking offenses, and its timing days before a foreign election, per WaPo and WSJ.
  • The documented intermediary role of Roger Stone, by his own account to the Journal.

What this does not establish

  • That any payment or thing of value attended Stone's advocacy; none is documented in the reviewed sources.
  • The authenticity of later anonymously published audio recordings said to discuss the pardon, which this project treats as unverified.
  • That the pardon determined the Honduran election outcome.

Public response on record

“Trump said Hernández was a victim of a Biden administration set-up.”

— President Trump, as reported by The Washington Post · source

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On the timeline

  1. 2025-12-01 Official acts Full pardon signed for former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández

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