"An American jury found that he was guilty of conspiring with cartels, to move 400 tons of cocaine through his home country toward the U.S. The Justice Department estimated that that amounts to approximately 4.5 billion individual doses of this drug. But the President claimed today that many people have told him that Hernandez had been treated very harshly and unfairly, and that it was all set up by the Biden White House."
"TRUMP: The people of Honduras really thought he was set up, and it was a terrible thing. He was the president of the country, and they basically said he was a drug dealer because he was the president of the country. And they said it was a Biden administration setup. And I looked at the facts, and I agreed with them."
"And Elie, despite what we are hearing from some officials, about this being a Biden setup. Part of this investigation actually started when the President was in office, the first term, President Trump. Because one of the lead investigators who convicted Hernandez's brother in this scheme, was actually Trump's own former personal attorney, he would go on to be so, Emil Bove, at your former stomping grounds of SDNY."
President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who had been sentenced to 45 years for drug trafficking. An American jury found Hernandez guilty of conspiring with cartels to move 400 tons of cocaine toward the U.S., an amount the Justice Department estimated as roughly 4.5 billion doses. Trump claimed many believed Hernandez had been treated unfairly and that the Biden White House orchestrated the prosecution. CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins asked senior legal analyst Elie Honig to assess that rationale; Honig strongly rejected the Biden-setup explanation. Collins noted part of the investigation began during Trump's first term and involved an investigator tied to Trump's former attorney Emil Bove. Legal sources also included former pardon attorney Liz Oyer.
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