"Donald Trump has accused officials in Honduras of trying to change the result of the country's presidential election, as the release of vote counts was paused with two rightwing candidates locked in a technical tie. The virtual vote count had been slow and unstable before it was interrupted around midday on Monday. The electoral court said a technical problem was to blame and insisted the manual count was continuing."
"On his social network, Trump accused officials of trying to change the results and warned that if they do, there will be hell to pay!. It was the latest in a string of dramatic interventions by the US president. Before the vote, Trump had thrown his support behind Nasry Tito Asfura who on Monday was ahead of his rival, Salvador Nasralla, by just 515 votes saying that US support for the country was conditional on an Asfura victory."
"As election officials pleaded for patience on Tuesday, Hernandez's wife, Ana Garcia de Hernandez, disclosed that the former president had been released from a US prison. God is faithful and never fails! Yesterday, Monday 1 December 2025, we lived a day we will never forget. After almost four years of pain, waiting and difficult trials, my husband, Juan Orlando Hernandez, became a free man AGAIN, thanks to the presidential pardon granted by President Donald Trump, she wrote."
Vote counting in Honduras was paused after a technical interruption to a slow, unstable virtual tally while two rightwing candidates remained in a technical tie and the electoral court said the manual count continued. Donald Trump accused officials of trying to change the result and warned of consequences on his social network. Trump had publicly backed Nasry Tito Asfura and said US support was conditional on an Asfura victory. He pledged to pardon former president Juan Orlando Hernandez, convicted of drug trafficking and sentenced to 45 years for allegedly creating a cocaine superhighway to the United States; Hernandez's wife announced his release and credited the presidential pardon. Observers expressed bafflement.
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